Quotes About Giving Rather Than Receiving

#1. The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness.
[Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque dandis quam accipiundis beneficiis amicitias parabant.]

Sallust

#2. How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

James Cash Penney

#3. 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

#4. Conscience is acquired through the realization that life is a cycle of giving and receiving, from which we can only receive from what we produce to others.

Daniel Marques

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. You cannot receive until you learn to release.

Kemi Sogunle

#8. 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

#9. Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.

Walt Disney

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. We get greatest joy not from receiving but from giving.

Debasish Mridha

#13. There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

Freya Stark

#14. 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

#15. Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations.

G. Frank Lawlis

#16. 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

#17. Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Maria Edgeworth

#18. Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

Rose Macaulay

#19. 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

#20. I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

Trevor McDonald

#21. Why are we here? God wants us to flourish, and paradoxically we flourish best by obeying rather than rebelling, by giving more than receiving, by serving rather than being served.

Philip Yancey

#22. Joy and happiness derives not from receiving but from giving.

Debasish Mridha

#23. A balance of giving and receiving is essential to keeping your energy, mood and motivation at a consistently high level.

Doreen Virtue

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Life is a balance between giving and receiving. The more you give, the more abundance will fill your life with joy.

Debasish Mridha

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living.

John Sterling

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

Kahlil Gibran

#38. 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

#39. I enjoy receiving and giving realistic fiction, for both children and adults, with strong characters, beautiful language, and humane visions.

Sharon Creech

#40. I know what I have given you ... I do not know what you have received.

Antonio Porchia