Top 100 Quotes About Giving To Receive
#1. There is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.
Frances Trollope
#2. Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.
Blaise Pascal
#3. 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
#4. Be generous. Give to those you love; give to those who love you, give to the fortunate, give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have.
W. Clement Stone
#5. All we have to do is to receive what we are given ... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
Vernon Howard
#6. I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.
Elizabeth Strout
#7. I'm designing a seductive frame to attract an audience to a subject they would otherwise ignore. And that's what I do in all of my photography - give a stage to things that wouldn't normally receive that stage.
Taryn Simon
#8. As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
Robert Frost
#9. Love is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being,
Ellen Page
#10. It turns out that the Bible is right - "It is better to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35). People generally do find greater joy in giving freely to others than they do in rampant self-indulgence.
Francis Chan
#11. People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
Norman Vincent Peale
#12. Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to the sport with little idea of what we could give or receive.
Stefan Kieszling
#13. I would prefer a thousand times to receive reproofs than to give them to others ...
Therese Of Lisieux
#14. My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.
Michael Jackson
#15. Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.
Kahlil Gibran
#16. Life wants you to be able to fully receive and give affection and love.
Bryant McGill
#17. ... .You are an exalted creature, with a spark of the divine within you that nothing you do can extinguish; and you have been granted life in order to give, because it is in giving that we receive ...
Eknath Easwaran
#18. Give as much you can possibly give, even if, or when, you do not receive. For the more you give, the more the heart gets 'bigger' and 'stronger'. So, never for one moment you hold back from giving, until the heart has nothing left to give again.
Ufuoma Apoki
#19. Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.
Keith Ferrazzi
#20. This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
Henri Nouwen
#21. Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
Ernest Holmes
#22. If one desires to receive one must first give. This is called profound understanding.
Laozi
#24. You should secretly give from what you have to those in need, so that you receive from God, Who sees in secret, a hundred times more, as well as life eternal in the age to come (cf. Mt. 6:4; Mk. 10:30).
Gregory Palamas
#25. It is better to give a lick than receive one. If anybody got in my way, I tried to run right through them.
Bo Jackson
#26. Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.
Wayne Dyer
#27. You cannot receive until you learn to release.
Kemi Sogunle
#28. It is wickedness when you receive blessing and not giving blessing to people.
Sunday Adelaja
#29. I think it's artist's role to give and to receive and the people to give it, hear it, vibe on it, and give it back around again.
Narada Michael Walden
#30. I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.
Nana Mouskouri
#31. We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.
Jon Anderson
#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 receive from God, then we give to others.
Rick Warren
#34. Allow others to give you loving care. Receive without guilt or apologies.
Doreen Virtue
#35. To tell you the Truth: It's better to give rather than to receive.
Amado Nervo
#36. If you are not willing to receive, then you are "ripping off" those who want to give to you.
T. Harv Eker
#37. When you are open to receive what God is able to do for you, you stop doing. You learn how to "Be still and know!" You know that your good is on the way, according to God's nature and willingness to give. You also put your faith in the fact that God is always on time.
Iyanla Vanzant
#38. The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
Leo Baeck
#39. Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#40. In truth, what you actually are is God's Love Manifested into being. That's all this God is looking to receive from you, your love given freely from your own heart and in doing so, in that act of freely giving back your love, you come to know who you are.
David Rich
#41. Above all else, know this: Be prepared at all times for the gifts of God and be ready always for new ones. For God is a thousand times more ready to give than we are to receive
Meister Eckhart
#42. Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.
Pat Summitt
#43. We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules.
Paulo Coelho
#45. When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.
Paulo Coelho
#46. Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay to their merit, a deposit we commit to their trust, a pledge that gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily submit.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#47. To graciously receive is an expression of the dignity of giving.
Deepak Chopra
#48. Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.
Pope John Paul II
#49. Jesus gives us the gift of the Holy Spirit, yet when the Spirit comes, He is loaded with packages! He desires to release much more in us and through us than we could ever imagine. These gifts are given for delivery, not for accumulation. We receive them to pass them on to others.
Jack W. Hayford
#50. Hanael, the Angel of December, will help us enjoy the balance of giving and receiving in many different ways: working and relaxing, giving our support to others and allowing ourselves to receive it in our own lives, having run with friends and having a quiet time alone to replenish our energy.
Margaret Neylon
#51. Once you get used to people giving to you as much as you give to them and receive all of the benefits of a less stressful life, you will not consider putting yourself last. ~Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen
#52. I will not learn it until I realize that "God is love," and to claim and receive it as an indwelling power for self-sacrifice. I will not love until I begin to see that my glory, my blessedness, is to be like God and like Christ, in giving up everything in myself for my fellow-men.
Andrew Murray
#53. We were never designed to receive glory. We were designed to give glory.
Darlene Zschech
#55. Peace is something that we become. Once we become peace, then only can we give peace to the world and receive peace from the world.
Sri Chinmoy
#56. You must give if you want to receive. Let the center of your being be one of giving, giving, giving. You can't give too much, and you will discover you cannot give without receiving.
Peace Pilgrim
#57. To give, and not demand that others receive ... that is the crossover point to maturity ...
Richard Rohr
#58. There are some things in life where it's better to receive than to give, and massage is one of them.
Al Michaels
#59. The perfect tools aren't going to help us if we can't face each other and give and receive fearlessly, but more important, to ask without shame.
Amanda Palmer
#60. You can only receive what you're willing to give.
Pat Riley
#61. Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door.
Denis Waitley
#62. When we give up our goals and concentrate diligently on the practices of our lives, we increase self-mastery and move toward the invisible universe, toward Spirit, to receive the wonders and miracles the universe has to offer us.
Gerald Epstein
#63. 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
#64. I brought Bhagawad Gita as a gift for the Japanese PM ... I don't have anything better than Gita to give & nor does the World has anything better to receive.
Narendra Modi
#66. It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
Kahlil Gibran
#67. Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.
Bill Shankly
#68. God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message.
Edmund Wattis Littlefield
#69. You have something to give and are willing to give it. You do this without fanfare or publicity, drawing attention to the God we worship, not yourselves, and with no thought of what you will receive.That's what disciples do!.
Linda K. Burton
#70. I feel much better to give than to receive. That's why I'm much more happier now as a coach than I ever was as a fighter.
Duane Ludwig
#71. 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
#72. The secret of a happy home is that members of the family learn to give and receive love.
Billy Graham
#73. Everything in the Universe is for us. Nothing is against us. Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people, but not necessarily used by all people." - Ernest Holmes in The Science of Mind
John Randolph Price
#74. 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
#75. It is better to give than receive- especially advice.
Mark Twain
#76. My brothers and sisters, do we remember to give thanks for the blessings we receive? Sincerely giving thanks not only helps us recognize our blessings, but it also unlocks the doors of heaven and helps us feel God's love.
Thomas S. Monson
#77. There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!
Ben Cohen
#78. If you're giving to get, all you'll receive is disappointment. But if you're giving to give, all you'll receive is joy.
Toni Sorenson
#79. to the psychologist Robert Cialdini, people can capitalize on this norm of reciprocity by giving what they want to receive. Instead
Adam M. Grant
#80. As St. Francis of Assisi in the thirteenth century said it best, "Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive.
Shawn Achor
#81. Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
William Shenstone
#82. The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.
Marianne Williamson
#83. 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.
Brene Brown
#84. My internal and external life depend so much on the work of others that I must make an extreme effort to give as much as I receive.
Albert Einstein
#85. If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something, I can neither give nor receive.
Dorothee Solle
#86. Today, and everyday, I give that which I want to receive.
Deepak Chopra
#87. By giving up what you are holding, you create emptiness to receive.
Debasish Mridha
#88. God created us to be channels of blessing, but our ability to receive the resources with which He wants us to bless others, depends on our being able to give then away - freely, faithfully, generously.
Jack W. Hayford
#89. You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)
Paulo Coelho
#90. The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
Moliere
#91. Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.
Jim Rohn
#92. Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#93. Since the universe is in constant and dynamic exchange, we need to both give and receive to keep abundance, love and anything else we want circulating in our lives.
Deepak Chopra
#94. Each day offers us the gift of being a special occasion if we can simply learn that as well as giving, it is blessed to receive with grace and a grateful heart.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#95. God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
C.S. Lewis
#96. The secrecy of Masonry is an honorable secrecy; any good man may ask for her secrets; those who are worthy will receive them. To give them to those who do not seek, or who are not worthy, would but impoverish the Fraternity and enrich not those who received them.
William Howard Taft
#97. Making a mix CD - albeit slightly old school - is generally a pretty cool gift and something I like to receive, or giving someone a book that moved you. Writing an inscription inside makes it even better.
Ryan Reynolds
#98. If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.
Joyce Meyer
#99. [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but ... to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.
Frederick Buechner
#100. Aspen is the life to live, see how much there is to give. See how strongly you believe, see how much you may receive.
John Denver