Top 68 Quotes About Giving But Not Receiving
#1. Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.
Colleen Hoover
#2. People of God are always people who care about other people and it always comes at some cost.
D'Andre Lampkin
#4. We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.
Seneca The Younger
#5. You could close your heart to love forever, but you'd miss out on all the good that came with giving and receiving love. You had to decide if it was worth the risk.
J. Sterling
#6. Most Whores are completely unaware of how important they are to society, and subsequently do not have the opportunity to learn how to be all-compassionate, all-loving, all-giving and all-receiving incarnations of the Goddess.
Inga Muscio
#7. Giving does not only preceed receiving; it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive.
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
Brian Tracy
#11. Confidence is something that has developed over time which is a very positive thing to gain. Respect is also very important, both giving it and receiving it from other drivers in your team.
Liz Halliday
#12. Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium, a transmitter; living thus, as a river, one experiences life to the full, flows along with the current of life, and dies in order to live again as an ocean.
Henry Miller
#13. With the many uncertainties, of one thing I was sure. I could not escape love, the very thing that had kept me mobile since the day I realized I was capable of giving and receiving it.
Rachael Wade
#14. Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
John Gray
#15. There are those who live and die giving love, without receiving any. And those who live life just taking, never giving. So the universe gives a boon to a few lucky souls: Who they love will love them back - all their lives.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#16. The only method of receiving love is to give love, because what we give out must come back.
Lester Levenson
#17. I do know that love, whether you're giving it or receiving it, or both, it is the ultimate healer.
Mike Ness
#18. Love's value is not dependent on the person receiving it, but on the person giving it.
Jeffrey Fry
#19. Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.
Vivian Amis
#20. The giving and receiving is the tricky thing. It's not the gift. It's what the heart says in giving the gift, and from my point of view, one doesn't give or receive - that's a role we have to play. But the gift - it's God's gift. I think that it's better to be souls than roles.
Ram Dass
#21. It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.
Audrey Hepburn
#22. Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.
James Anthony Froude
#23. Joy does not come from receiving, but it always fills your heart when you are giving.
Debasish Mridha
#24. Loving is giving and being loved is receiving. Loving should not depend on being loved, but to all intents and
purposes, your commitment in a relationship is grossly expressed by how much of yourself you share with your partner.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#25. I frequently hear persons exhorted to give their hearts to Christ ... But that is not the Gospel. Salvation comes from something that Christ gives you, not something that you give to Christ. The giving of your heart to Christ follows after the receiving from Christ of eternal life by faith.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#26. Not by receiving, but by giving, can you create abundance.
Debasish Mridha
#27. Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.
Rose Macaulay
#28. To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#29. Have you ever seen a person who was receiving a blood transfusion? The blood was precious, life-giving, and certainly not repulsive. The blood of Christ may seem to be a grim and repulsive subject ... [but] the blood of Christ is precious.
Billy Graham
#30. We are justified, not by giving anything to God,
what we do,
but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
William Gurnall
#31. I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback.
Shawn Fanning
#32. The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.
Bob Burg
#34. The man who is receiving the money is getting rich and the guy who is giving the money is getting poorer
Sunday Adelaja
#35. Life is a balance between giving and receiving. The more you give, the more abundance will fill your life with joy.
Debasish Mridha
#36. I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.
Sharon Creech
#37. Love is an activity, not a passive affect; it is a "standing in," not a "falling for." In the most general way, the active character of love can be described by stating that love is primarily giving, not receiving.
Erich Fromm
#38. Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
Kahlil Gibran
#39. The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.
Marion Woodman
#40. At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe ... What do you want that you could be more open to receiving?
Alan Cohen
#41. Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.
John Sterling
#42. The failure to be perfect does not mean you are not a success; it is giving your best that helps you to understand the joy of receiving.
Fran Tarkenton
#43. Joy and happiness derives not from receiving but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#44. everybody needs help in some way, we are a community on earth, giving & receiving, ebbing & flowing, reflecting, even tough lessons can help
Jay Woodman
#45. I don't like giving or receiving gifts because I don't like that initial reaction. Although I do enjoy the love and the family aspect of Christmas, and I love eating with my family and friends and reconnecting with them.
The Miz
#46. Vitarags [the enlightened one] do not have a desire for giving or receiving charity. They are in the state of 'shuddh upyog' [pure awareness of pure soul].
Dada Bhagwan
#47. If you aren't polite when giving criticism you will come off as an awful person and if you aren't polite when receiving criticism you will come off as an awful person.
S.A. Tawks
#48. Almost everyone nowadays is on the wrong track in their pursuit of
happiness. They think a great deal about having and receiving, about
outward show and success and being served by others. That is what most
people call fulfillment.
True fulfillment, though, lies in giving and serving.
Paulo Coelho
#49. Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
#50. For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
William Jewett Tucker
#51. 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
#52. Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.
Walt Disney
#53. Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.
Maria Edgeworth
#54. Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
Meher Baba
#55. Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.
G. Frank Lawlis
#56. The truth is that there are no "masters" in the spiritual life. Mature and wise teachers, yes. But fundamentally we are all beginners receiving and giving on our knees before God and with open hands before one another. In this business no one "lords it over" another. Pay
Richard J. Foster
#57. There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
Freya Stark
#58. We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving.
Debasish Mridha
#59. As adults our life is reduced to giving alms to others and receiving them in return. We squander our personalities in orgies of coexistence.
Fernando Pessoa
#60. Your Sacrifices Create The Run Way For Your Blessings, It Has To Be A Sacrifice From You To Attract God's Attention
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#61. A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.
Doreen Virtue
#62. All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors - in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.
Fred Rogers
#63. You cannot receive until you learn to release.
Kemi Sogunle
#64. My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#65. Give and Take ...
For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life
And to the flower a bee is a messenger of love
And to both, bee and flower,
the giving and the receiving is a need and an ecstasy.
Khalil Gibran
#66. The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.
George Eliot
#67. The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.
Sydney, Lady Morgan
#68. I know what I have given you ... I do not know what you have received.
Antonio Porchia
