Receiving Quotes · Page 11

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is…

— Iyanla Vanzant

“God smiles when we praise and thank Him continually. Few things feel better than receiving heartfelt praise and appreciation from someone else.…

— William Law

There cannot be a federal state of Europe without all citizens receiving the same benefits and rights.

— Jaroslaw Kaczynski

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is…

— Francis Bacon

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

— Jim Rohn

“Giving does not only preceed receiving; it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

There is a peculiar gratification in receiving congratulations from one's squadron for a victory in the air. It is worth more to…

— Eddie Rickenbacker

I believe that feminists of the more aggressive persuasion are frustrated women unable to find the proper male leadership. If a woman…

— Tony Evans

The aim of all those who live in God is to please our Lord Jesus Christ and become reconciled with God the…

— Symeon the New Theologian

I was always big on laughs, giving and receiving. It wasn't necessarily good for my teachers. Of course there's times where you…

— Kevin Hart

I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more…

— James A. Garfield

Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a…

— Neil Postman

Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.

— Fulton J. Sheen

I'm not that comfortable with actors receiving honours, partly because I think they ought to go to those who really help others.

— Jim Broadbent

To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler…

— Brené Brown

And it’s not just that ‘we all need somebody to lean on’; recent work on giving support shows that caring for others…

— Jonathan Haidt

It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving…

— Mike DeWine

I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.

— Martin Van Buren

The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a…

— Rachel Vincent

[The way Stanley Kubrick] tells a story is antithetical to the way we are accustomed to receiving stories.

— Steven Spielberg

Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend.

— Rabindranath Tagore

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many…

— Salman Rushdie