Receiving famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
-- Abraham Cowley -
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
-- Adrian Rogers -
You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.
-- Annie Barrows -
There is only one safeguard against error, and that is to be established in the faith; and for that, there has to be prayerful and diligent study, and a receiving with meekness the engrafted Word of God. Only then are we fortified against the attacks of those who assail us.
-- Arthur W. Pink -
It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.
-- Austan Goolsbee -
To receive more, we must give out what we receive. . . . For it is by giving that we set in operation the unfailing law of measure for measure. With no thought of receiving, it is impossible to avoid receiving, for the abundance you have given is returned to you in fulfillment of the law.
-- Baird T. Spalding -
Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.
-- Barbara Marciniak -
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
-- Barney Frank -
Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
Compliments are the helium that fills everyone's balloon; they elevate the person receiving them so he or she can fly over life's troubles and land safely on the other side.
-- Bernie Siegel -
The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.
-- Bob Burg -
Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.
-- Brené Brown -
There is a 114% increase in happiness when receiving rewards via mobile marketing.
-- Brian Wong -
My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on "The Guiding Light".
-- Brittany Snow -
I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.
-- Bubba Sparxxx -
Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
-- Carla Bley -
I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.
-- Carol Anshaw -
A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
-- Cass Canfield -
I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe that’s the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate.
-- Catherine Gilbert Murdock -
Giving is only one-half of the law of increase. Receiving is the other half. We can give and give but we may unbalance the law unless we also expect to receive.
-- Catherine Ponder -
I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject.
-- Charles Babbage -
Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Some people are very earnest after the things of God, and he who seeks finds, and the more he seeks in the right direction the more he finds. He that is dilatory in searching after the things of God, obtains but little; he that is diligent obtains much. All may receive it, but they must obtain it in the way that God has appointed, all receiving their measure according to their diligence and desire; but the spirit is the same.
-- Charles W. Penrose -
Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
Remember this. We are always looking for problems to solve, and to solve problems we need to be ready for clues. And you will never be in the receiving frame of mind if you – never – shut - up!
-- Chris Murray -
Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know.
-- Colin Powell -
Extraterrestrial contact is a real phenomenon. The Vatican is receiving much information about extraterrestrials and their contacts with humans from its Nuncios (embassies) in various countries, such as Mexico, Chile and Venezuela.
-- Corrado Balducci -
Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
-- Coventry Patmore -
Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
-- Dan Lipinski -
Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
-- David Steindl-Rast -
I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.
-- Debbie Reynolds -
And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.
-- Donald Miller -
Remember that although bodies may pass away, the energy that connects you to a loved one is everlasting and can always be felt when you’re open to receiving it.
-- Doreen Virtue -
I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.
-- Elizabeth McGovern -
Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.
-- Ellis Peters -
We can choose to humble ourselves by receiving counsel and chastisement, . . . by forgiving those who have offended us, . . . by rendering selfless service. . . .
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn -
Giving opens the way for receiving.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn -
I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
-- Freya Stark -
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed.
-- Fulton J. Sheen -
The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.
-- Gabrielle Bernstein -
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
-- George MacDonald -
A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature
-- George Orwell -
If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.
-- Gina Gershon -
Hope always draws the soul from the beauty which is seen to what is beyond, always kindles the desire for the hidden through what is constantly perceived. Therefore, the ardent lover of beauty, although receiving what is always visible as an image of what he desires, yet longs to be filled with the very stamp of the archetype.
-- Gregory of Nyssa -
If one of the brothers, being able ,to maintain himself by his own occupation, does not desire ,a share of the family property, he may be made separate ,by the others receiving a trifle out of his share to live upon.
-- Guru Nanak -
being made happy isn't receiving something new, it's being made to understand what we have.
-- Gwen Bristow -
You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.
-- Harbhajan Singh -
We are the necessary element since we expend nothing. Management can create its own capital -- the profits. Its business would grow and profits increase. Labor would prosper as well, while the price of the product would remain constant, the prosperity of industry, labor and management would continually increase. We Jews glory in the fact that the stupid goy have never realized that we are the parasites consuming an increasing portion of production while the producers are continually receiving less and less.
-- Harold Wallace Rosenthal -
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel.
-- Helen Keller -
I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.
-- Helen Suzman -
The key to the remembering that brings and maintains testimony is receiving the Holy Ghost as a companion. It is the Holy Ghost who helps us see what God has done for us. It is the Holy Ghost who can help those we serve to see what God has done for them.
-- Henry B. Eyring -
I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.
-- Hiro Fujiwara -
If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or untruth thus becomes clear. However, if the soul is infected with partisanship for a particular opinion or sect, it accepts without a moment's hesitation the information that is agreeable to it. Prejudice and partisanship obscure the critical faculty and preclude critical investigation. The results is that falsehoods are accepted and transmitted.
-- Ibn Khaldun -
Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. You must know. Giving without receiving doesn't prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.
-- James A. Garfield -
Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.
-- Jan Egeland -
When you truly commit in your life, you start receiving more than you could imagine.
-- Jeff Bridges -
I'm very manipulative towards directors. My theory is that everyone on the set is directing the film, we're all receiving art messages from the universe on how we should do the film.
-- Jeff Bridges -
I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.
-- Jerome Isaac Friedman -
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 -
Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly....As a scientist I remain skeptical.
-- Joanne Simpson -
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.
-- John R. Rice -
Eating in a hurried or unconscious way, as so many of us have learned to do, is like receiving a love letter from the earth, but never taking the time to carefully read it.
-- John Robbins -
Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.
-- John Ruskin -
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
-- John Sterling -
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.
-- John Yoo -
In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.
-- Jon Postel -
With climate change and health crises rightfully receiving international attention, the time has come to focus on hunger as a top priority. WHO regards hunger and malnutrition as the gravest threat to public health, and climate change threatens to further destabilise already fragile food-production systems.
-- Josette Sheeran -
Our desire for approval can only truly be met by receiving God’s acceptance and approval of us.
-- Joyce Meyer -
Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.
-- Juana Inés de la Cruz -
Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.
-- Justus von Liebig -
Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on his own terms, and asserts that it can be offered only by those who 'have found the center of their lives in their own hearts'.
-- Kathleen Norris -
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
-- Khalil Gibran -
All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during her recovery was a gift – the most rewarding experience in my life.
-- Kristin Chenoweth -
Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.
-- L. Lionel Kendrick -
As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.
-- Larry Hagman -
The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.
-- Laurence Sterne -
Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.
-- Lawrence Venuti -
The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.
-- Lester Levenson -
He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure.
-- Lisa Kleypas -
I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm.
-- Louise Hay -
George Jessel’s newest pick-me-up which is receiving attention from the town’s paragraphers is called a Bloody Mary: half tomato juice, half vodka.
-- Lucius Beebe -
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar,
-- Luis Bunuel -
Giving and receiving pleasure is the nature of the cosmos, the inner nature of reality.
-- Marc Gafni -
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul.
-- Marion G. Romney -
Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.
-- Martin Chemnitz -
Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
-- Meher Baba -
You don't measure life by receiving awards.
-- Mikhail Baryshnikov
