Recipient Quotes
92 quotes by 83 authors
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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
— Thomas Aquinas
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When delivering something like an important letter or other written materials, grasp it firmly in your hand as you go and do not release it…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain. It can be and is often treasured by the recipient for life.
— George D. Prentice
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It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as…
— Emanuel Swedenborg
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God's grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver..
— Timothy Keller
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The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
— Robert Graves
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I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
— Sigmund Freud
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The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters…
— Daniel Dennett
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Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
— Dale Carnegie
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Art is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.
— Seth Godin
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Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.
— BolesÅ‚aw Prus
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I am a little discouraged and irritated at the welfare recipient families growing in size all the time. Those of us who work and pay…
— Hilmar Moore
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THE TEACHER AS A NECESSARY EVIL. Let us have as few people as possible between the productive minds and the hungry and recipient minds! The…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The merits of deeper debt cancellation, when accompanied by conditions of accountability and transparency on the part of recipient countries, have been shown to generate…
— John Ricard
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A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not…
— Marlene Dietrich
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Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what communication-theorists sometimes called "exformation," which is a certain quantity of…
— David Foster Wallace
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Today, refuse to see yourself as a recipient of negative vibrations or as a victim of subtle or gross influence around you. Practice broadcasting the…
— Michael Beckwith
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India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.
— Bill Gates
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True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality. This comes across to the recipient with some surprise. "If I am not being…
— Carl Rogers
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Initiate giving. Don't wait for someone to ask. See what happens - especially to you. You may find that you gain a greater clarity about…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
Who Wrote These Recipient Quotes
83 authors contributed a total of 92 Recipient Quotes, led by these top contributors: