We Give Quotes
683 We Give quotes by 524 unique authors
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The intention behind our giving and receiving is the most important thing. When the act of giving is joyful, when it is unconditional and from…
— Deepak Chopra
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Letting go means we stop trying to force outcomes and make people behave. It means we give up resistance to the way things are, for…
— Melody Beattie
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We must clearly understand that when we give the child freedom and independence, we are giving freedom to a worker already braced for action, who…
— Maria Montessori
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How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.
— William James
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As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.
— Josh Billings
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We give nothing so freely as advice.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace,…
— Matthieu Ricard
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Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as…
— Swami Vivekananda
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By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
— Homer
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That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow,…
— Madonna Ciccone
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"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn…
— Horace
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We automatically give to each person we meet, but we choose what we give. Our words, our actions, must consciously set the stage for the…
— Marlo Morgan
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What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to…
— Maria Montessori
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We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead…
— William James
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So what is the difference between "power thinking" and "positive" thinking? The distinction is slight but profound. To me, people use positive thinking to pretend…
— T. Harv Eker
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Over the next 20 to 30 years, we are going to end up with world government. It's inevitable... There's going to be conflict, coercion and…
— Jim Garrison
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The things that most deserve our gratitude we just take for granted. Without air we cannot live for more than a minute or two. Everyday…
— Sri Chinmoy
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The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
— David Steindl-Rast
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Service rendered as a gift or love-offering to Life: work that is engaged in, not for self or for profit, but as an act of…
— Henry Thomas Hamblin
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We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless…
— John Calvin
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In the end, excellence in education means excellence in teaching, and if this country would give the status to first grade teachers that we give…
— Ernest L. Boyer
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Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves.
— Robert Neelly Bellah
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