"You often say, "I would give, but only……" — Khalil Gibran
"You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."
More Deserving Quotes
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh… — George Henry Borrow
- We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this… — Moby
- Self-esteem is directly linked to deserving success. You must deserve victory to feel good about yourself. — Rick Pitino
- Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for… — Aristotle
- We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is… — Larry Page
- The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. — John Quincy Adams
- The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it. — William Hazlitt
- In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the… — Thomas Jefferson
- There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We… — Charles Caleb Colton
- Better to deserve praise without having it, than to have it without deserving it. — Ivan Panin
- Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving. — B. B. Warfield