Top 100 Give In Return Quotes
#2. A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.
Sarah Orne Jewett
#3. To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.
Leigh Hunt
#4. My mom always told me to never give my heart to a girl with a guy best friend, because her heart isn't really hers to give in return.
Kandi Steiner
#5. Can you not see [hope] burning in her eyes? Does it not make you want to look away when you have none to give in return?
Melina Marchetta
#6. Like all feelings felt for oneself, Mrs. Ramsay thought, it made one sad. It was so inadequate, what one could give in return; and what Rose felt was quite out of proportion to anything she actually was.
Virginia Woolf
#7. I only ask your help, for which I have nothing to give in return."
"Nothing? You call your theory nothing"
"Weigh it in the balance with the freedom of one single human spirit," he said, turning to her, "and which will weigh heavier? Can you tell? I cannot.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#8. Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return.
Preston Sprinkle
#9. She felt shy, like a precious gift being gloatingly unwrapped, but she didn't resent his moment of purely masculine triumph. The glory of the moment was also hers, this beautiful man hers. He was giving himself to her and asking nothing but what she was willing to give in return.
Susan Napier
#10. In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.
Swami Vivekananda
#11. To give and not expect anything in return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
Rupert Everett
#12. When you give a feast, do not invite your friends or your rich neighbors, in case they might invite you in return, and you would be repaid," she said, gazing down at her hands on the bar. "Invite the poor, the crippled, the lame and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you.
Gary Whitta
#13. There is a kind of transaction that occurs between a person and a place: you give the place something and it gives you something in return. In years to come, Hodel would know for certain not only what Nerchinsk had taken, but what it had given her as well.
Alexandra Silber
#14. Happiness is the only thing that when you give it, you get it in return.
Ashwin Sanghi
#15. I understand more than I want to. People act like love is a gift, but it's not. It's theft. It's a goddamn tragedy. Love is losing a vital organ to a man who will never give his in return.
Skye Warren
#16. The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.
Howard Raiffa
#17. The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That's it. I'll house you, protect you, I'll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.
Gene Simmons
#18. I've looted that poor Hab for everything it could give me, and in return it's kept me alive for a year and a half. It's like the Giving Tree.
Andy Weir
#19. In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.
Ray Dalio
#20. Respect is the word I want. You have to earn it. You give, and you get it in return, that's how I see it.
Joe Torre
#21. He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.
Alfred Lansing
#22. Most people I ask little from. I try to give them much, and expect nothing in return and I do very well in the bargain.
Francois Fenelon
#23. In the political language of today, people who want to keep what they have earned are said to be greedy, while those who wish to take their earnings from them and give it to others (who will vote for them in return) show compassion.
Thomas Sowell
#24. Love hunger and thirst for the sake of Christ. Insofar as you pacify your body, so much much will you do make your soul virtuous. God, who rewards thoughts, words, and deeds, will give good in return for even a small thing which you gladly suffer for His sake.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#25. There are things you can change, the ones you can accomodate the ones you must avoid and the ones you definitely cannot do anything about. If you surrender all of them to JESUS the LORD, HE would give you Peace and Love in return.
James C. Uwandu
#26. What cracks had he left in their hearts? Did they love less now and settle for less in return, as they held onto parts of themselves they did not want to give and lose again? Or - and he wished this - did they love more fully because they had survived pain, so no longer feared it?
Andre Dubus
#27. You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return.
Carl Jung
#28. A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.
Mignon McLaughlin
#29. You owe me and you know what I want in return."
He scowled at me. "Not the pants."
I nodded gravely. "Give me your pants.
Jennifer Echols
#30. I wish I had something to give you. Something of value. Something to bring you happiness. But I have nothing. Only my friendship in return for yours, for what it's worth.
C.J. Sullivan
#31. When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.
Bob Dole
#32. I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment.
Louise Hay
#33. We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time.
Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.
Paulo Coelho
#34. Look for opportunities to help someone else, but don't give expecting something in return. Give knowing that if we give we receive.
David
#35. Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve.
Simin Daneshvar
#36. I think the one thing about me is I'm a fairly demanding guy, and I give a great deal of myself, and I expect that in return.
Mike Quade
#37. When you love someone, you become immune to the hurt they cause you. You don't love hoping to get something in return, you love because you have to. In its extreme form, it is a need to give, not a need to get.
Faraaz Kazi
#38. Stop making a relationship about what you get and start making it about what you give, for what you give is what you'll get in return.
Rob Liano
#39. A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
Ivor Novello
#40. What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.
Swami Vivekananda
#41. You won't believe me, no matter what I say. Clearly there's nothing I can do or say that will change your opinion of me."
"You want everything, take all that you can get, but you give nothing back in return," Magnus snarled through clenched teeth. "Leave me.
Morgan Rhodes
#42. I give you a week, maybe two, before you're driven to bite someone."
"I don't know how to ... to bite or drink! But you could teach me."
"And what could you possibly do in return?" Lothaire waved a negligent hand. "Play football for me? Break in my jeans really well?
Kresley Cole
#43. I'm not scared because I can't give you my love in return, I'm scared because I love you so much sometimes it's hard to breathe."
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"Everything I have to give, it's yours. It's always been yours.
Tara Sivec
#44. Eagles live in the darkness,
And the sons of the Alps
Cross over the abyss without fear
On lightly-built bridges.
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Growing weak on the separate mountains
Then give us calm waters;
Give us wings, and loyal minds
To cross over and return.
Friedrich Holderlin
#45. I swear to you, Patch, to take your love and cherish it. And in return, to give you my body and my heart - everything I possess, I give to you. I am yours. Wholly and completely. Love me. Protect me. Fulfill me. And I promise to do the same.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#46. We must first give to life if we expect life to give anything in return. This is the divine law.
Harold Klemp
#47. Paste just might be my favorite music magazine. They have shed light on many incredible, under-appreciated folks over the years, helping me find new tunes to accompany me through life. We were honored to give a song in return.
Jon Foreman
#48. Ever since I discovered that my god given male member was going to give me no peace, I decided to give it no rest in return.
Christopher Hitchens
#49. Love is promising to give someone everything and not expect anything in return.
Emma Hart
#50. We are called to give God a return on the investment of brilliance, genius and ingenuity that was engrained in our souls before we took our first breath.
Shannon Tanner
#51. It is perhaps the simplicity of his affection, the patience of his understanding and loyalty that makes him too easy to love, for his love is taken for granted by many, who give back nothing in return.
Claire North
#52. we can learn a lot from a tree; she
gives so much without expecting
anything in return. oxygen, shade,
fruit, resources. she is proud of her
roots and tough to tear down.
try to be more like a tree.
give without expectations, be
proud, be strong.
JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon
#53. To receive one thing with gratitude is to give ten things in return.
Sri Chinmoy
#54. I forget, because it's hard to realize that the same person who gives you so much love, and to whom you give so much in return, can go through the kinds of pain and suffering that nothing you do can alleviate.
Esther Earl
#55. Maybe we have only a finite amount of love to give. We're born with our portion, and if we love and are not loved enough in return, it's depleted.
Ayana Mathis
#56. You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.
Gregory David Roberts
#57. In the spiritual lore of India there is a story that the Lord whispered only one word in our ears when he sent us into the world: 'Give.' Give freely of your time, your talent, your resources; give without asking for anything in return. This is the secret of living in joy and security.
Eknath Easwaran
#58. I say to you dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and He gives you verything. When we give ourselves to him, we receive a hundredfold in return. Yes, open, open wide the doors to Christ and you will find true life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#59. Am I willing to give up my lofty ideas of success - even the "success" of serving God in great and visible ways - and instead content myself to serve in the mundane, to be largely invisible, and to meet the needs of those who can't return the favor?
Anonymous
#60. I want nothing more in this life than to make you mine and to be yours in return. I know it may take you a while to trust that, but I will give you my love without limit or conditions, without an end.
Roni Loren
#61. But I really would love to give her a very special gift. I was hoping if I did, she might give me a kiss in return, instead of the brotherly hugs I always get instead.
Jessica Day George
#62. It was his experience that life worked under the same guidelines as a capitalistic society. In order to get what you wanted, it was usually necessary to give up something in return. Sometimes gaining what you defined as everything meant losing what you most needed.
Roy L. Pickering Jr.
#63. Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
Karen Kain
#64. I learned a valuable spiritual lesson in my return to wrestling: God does not give us gifts that He does not intend for us to use.
Shawn Michaels
#65. Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
Peace Pilgrim
#66. The best neighbor you can have is a tree, a living tree. They listen more than they talk, provide shade on hot days, give you food and shelter, and don't ask for anything in return.
Michael J. Sullivan
#67. It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.
C.S. Lewis
#68. From that point on, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and a few other intimates made it their first priority to arrange a deal with Hamilton - letting him have his assumption plan, but hopefully in the form of a compromise that would force him to give up something in return. Chapter
Charles A. Cerami
#69. I'm keeping it," he said.
"Okay. But you have to give me something in return."
"What would you like? And please keep your requests above the neck.
Tiffany Reisz
#70. No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#71. Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Swami Vivekananda
#72. I don't have much but I take all I got and that's what I give, what I get in return is the money I earn and the life I live.
Wiz Khalifa
#73. I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#74. Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness.
Paolo Maurensig
#75. When you love someone, you shouldn't feel that they should love in return. You have to give people freedom.
Frederick Lenz
#76. I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.
D.H. Lawrence
#77. I do not count what I fetch from Life, I do count what I give it in return
Sarvesh Jain
#78. We live on a world where if you run straight away, without turning, you return to your point of origin. So much energy can be saved and time, by dealing with the point, at its origin, that would make us run.
Tom Althouse
#79. TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray.
Swami Vivekananda
#80. We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.
Theodore Roosevelt
#81. If you give your people halfhearted leadership, you'll get a halfhearted following. But if you invest yourself in them, if you have a heart for them, your people will return your investment with a heartfelt following.
Kevin Leman
#82. That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3
Albert Camus
#83. Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.
Hamza Yusuf
#84. If you give, expecting something in return, it's not really giving at all.
If you love, expecting something in return, it's not really loving at all.
Donald L. Hicks
#85. I was hers in ways that those with loyalties of convenience cannot fathom. I loved her beyond words and clothes, and yes beyond even pain. The strangest of things is the way the hungry always return to the very same hand. The hand they know. The one that cannot give.
Sonja Livingston
#86. They give unconditional love and undying loyalty in return for regular meals and an occasional pat on the head.
Jon Winokur
#87. Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#88. When you can give without expecting anything in return, you have mastered the art of living.
Jon Mead
#89. You have to be willing to give 100 percent with zero expectation of receiving anything in return," he said. "Only when you're willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.
Darren Hardy
#90. A man of power is a prize bargainer. Whatever he offers you, he will take more in return. Your challenge is to know yourself. Give only what you can, while remaining steadfast to your own truths.
Davis Bunn
#91. In a relationship if you are giving and getting nothing back in return, stop giving so much, and spend time being. Give to yourself, be who you are.
Brenda Shoshanna
#92. I give you my love, and all I ask in return is room and board that includes three square meals a day.
Jarod Kintz
#93. Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott Gregson
#94. You may not be able to find love, but if you give, you will get it back in return.
Debasish Mridha
#95. In the past, I never gave money to my children when they were young in return for nothing. When one of them approached me to give them cash, I asked them to do some work in exchange for it.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
#96. When you give away everything without expecting anything in return, only then will everything belong to you.
Debasish Mridha
#97. If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.
Andy Roddick
#98. We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made.
Judy H. Wright
#99. He will give you a friendly greeting in return and ask if you are a northerner. You reply that you are from Eyjafjord. He will then ask you whether there are a lot of good men up there, to which you reply, a lot of perverts, that's about all
Anonymous
#100. Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.
Ilona Andrews
