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Giving Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
- The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.... In any case, the giving of love is an…
- The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.
- I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New…
- I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and…
- Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving…
- You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have…
- The giving of love is an education in itself.
- Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are…
- When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
- In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most…
- It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are…
- Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about…
- If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because…
- ...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
- To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives…
More Giving Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi