Top 100 Quotes About Receiving
#1. The power of positive thoughts is the key to receiving wonders and miraculous blessings.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#2. Hell sent texts messages - group ones at that? It kind of fit, since there was nothing worse than being on the receiving end of a group message - sort of like being held hostage.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#3. I was receiving so much negative publicity. I wasn't going to give people the satisfaction of seeing me down.
Richard Ramirez
#4. Although some people think that life is a battle, it is actually a game of giving and receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#5. There is absolutely no power in our human effort to live holy. It is only by His grace. And the result of receiving grace is we get better at living like Christ, which is something we all want, right?
Joyce Meyer
#6. As long as a handful of U.S. scientists, most receiving funds from the fossil fuel industry, get equal time with hundreds of the world's leading climate scientists, the public inevitably ends up with a misimpression about the state of our scientific understanding.
Joseph J. Romm
#7. I love you so much, Eden. You're a miracle. My miracle. A gift I never dreamed of receiving. I'm so damn grateful for it.
Maya Banks
#8. The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#9. Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.
Joseph Prince
#10. She was not so forbearing when it came to bad breath. After receiving one French envoy, she exclaimed, 'Good God! What shall I do if this man stay here, for I smell him an hour after he has gone!' Her words were reported back to the envoy, who at once betook himself back to France in shame.
Alison Weir
#11. Joy does not come from receiving, but it always fills your heart when you are giving.
Debasish Mridha
#12. The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
Peter Davison
#13. Experience taught then and teaches now that blacks should never underestimate the level of violence that could be brought to bear against them by white authority, and that they should never overestimate the prospects for receiving understanding and support from white people.
Charles E. Cobb Jr.
#14. Every now and then I feel like I am only receiving one track of a stereo recording, and this was one such time. I had no idea what - well, to be honest, I didn't even have an idea what to have an idea about.
Jeff Lindsay
#15. We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is.
Elisabeth Elliot
#16. It gave me an extraordinary feeling, being on the receiving end of such a stare. It made me feel like I was more important than air to him for a brief, profound moment.
R.K. Lilley
#17. We learn, grow and become compassionate and generous as much through exile as homecoming, as much through loss as gain, as much through giving things away as in receiving what we believe to be our due.
David Whyte
#18. Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
David Steindl-Rast
#19. I have learned that those who engage in family history research and then perform the temple ordinance work for those whose names they have found will know the additional joy of receiving both halves of the blessing.
Howard W. Hunter
#20. prestige, and possessions are the three things that prevent us from recognizing and receiving the reign of God. . . .
Jen Hatmaker
#21. Many introverts are shy, partly as a result of receiving the message that there's something wrong with their preference for reflection, and partly because their physiologies, as we'll see, compel them to withdraw from high-stimulation environments.
Susan Cain
#22. Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
William Ames
#23. It is my mission to ensure that HIV-positive children and children with AIDS are no longer overlooked and that they begin receiving the treatment and care they deserve.
Mike DeWine
#24. The seven chakras work like a network. They are consistently renewing energy in the body. The way they do this is by receiving energy from the food you eat, the amount of exercise you do, your environment, your mental state, and many more important influences.
Kristine Marie Corr
#25. He said with such confidence that her heart surged with hope. But a person's ability to love is only equal to his or her openness in receiving it.
Debbie Macomber
#26. Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#27. The opposite of envy and entitlement is gratitude. Gratitude comes from the feeling of freely receiving things, not because we deserve them, but because someone has graced us with them. We feel a thankfulness grounded in love,
Henry Cloud
#29. My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery.
Melissa Rivers
#30. The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.
Bryant McGill
#31. You will gain more by receiving scorn peacefully than if you fasted for a week on bread and water. It is good to humble ourselves; but it is much more worthwhile to accept the humiliations that come to us from others.
Alphonsus Liguori
#32. How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#33. 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
#34. Ever since the Christmas of '53, I have felt that the yuletide is a special hell for those families who have suffered any loss or who must admit to any imperfection; the so-called spirit of giving can be as greedy as receiving
Christmas is our time to be aware of what we lack, of who's not home.
John Irving
#35. That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Paul Berg
#36. Real love ... is when you get as much pleasure from giving pleasure as you do from receiving it.
Paul Auster
#37. We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.
Timothy Murphy
#38. My season of weakness has taught me the joy of receiving, the strength of brokenness, and the importance of looking for God in each moment. Before cancer, I would have said
Kara Tippetts
#39. Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.
Juana Ines De La Cruz
#40. A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature
George Orwell
#41. Write the best thing you can, whatever it is. It is deeply moving to read a letter from Spain or somewhere that says they read my book and fell in love with my daughter. Or that a book I wrote changed their life. It is amazing to be on the receiving end of that. Don't deny yourself that.
Dan Alatorre
#42. The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
Richard Steele
#43. The perfect expression of receiving a lifetime award is to be working when they're handing it out.
Harold Prince
#44. The only way that you can ever know if something is of value to you is by the way it feels as you are receiving it
Esther Hicks
#45. When we have learned the process of faith for receiving healing, we have learned how to receive everything else God promises us in His Word.
F. F. Bosworth
#46. God acts differently. God continues to give, refusing to make giving dependent on our receiving things rightly.
Miroslav Volf
#47. The glory of Christ in the gospel is the decisive ground of saving faith because saving faith is the receiving of Christ as infinitely glorious and supremely valuable.
John Piper
#48. Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
Oscar Wilde
#49. Don't let toxic people infect you with the fear of giving and receiving one of the most powerful forces in this world ... LOVE!
Yvonne Pierre
#50. Gratitude is what starts the receiving process.
Jim Rohn
#51. Being taken down a few pegs is humbling. Knowing that life is not easy or fair is humbling. Receiving a great honor - well, that would be called an honor.
Meghan Daum
#52. 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
#53. Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy
Neil Young
#54. The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy.
Edward L. Bernays
#55. 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
#56. Our means of receiving impressions are absurdly few, and our notions of surrounding objects infinitely narrow. We see things only as we are constructed to see them, and can gain no idea of their absolute nature. With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos.
H.P. Lovecraft
#58. The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#59. The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery.
Rachel Vincent
#60. 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
#61. All too many young people are receiving mixed messages and inaccurate information about drugs.
John Walters
#62. Prayer is receiving by faith what God has already done!
Andrew Wommack
#63. It was very controversial actually, because basically, Lion In The Grass was also a course that you were receiving college credit for. So it was like he was taking a class, but then the class which also has a teacher and everything, was competing with bands that weren't in classes.
Chris Baio
#64. Ah," Bridget said, flushing slightly. As the glib-tongued lout in question, she was currently on the receiving end of this facet of the habble's law. "I'm not sure everyone would agree with you. We're a civilized society, are we not?" Esterbrook blinked. "Since when, miss? We're a democracy.
Jim Butcher
#65. From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
Erykah Badu
#66. 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
#67. Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
Julian Bond
#68. When we open our hands and take that which is offered to us, we are not only receiving the thing offered, but we are receiving the person.
Emily P. Freeman
#69. Even with friends, I had difficulty giving or receiving physical affection, although I secretly craved it.
Kate M. Taylor
#71. My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion really means. In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.
Nicholas Sparks
#72. Is the drive to refuse gay blood a fear of contracting HIV/AIDS, or is it an embodiment of the irrational fear that receiving blood from gay people will somehow make them gay?
Christina Engela
#73. We just had to keep going and hope that whoever was in charge up top got his act together or started receiving pro-zombie messages from a higher power-living or divine.It really didn't matter at this point.
Lia Habel
#74. Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.
Samantha Stosur
#76. It turns out that popularity is scary. I don't feel comfortable receiving so much attention from people; perhaps that's because I'm just a kampong boy.
Andrea Hirata
#77. We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.
Frances Harper
#78. Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
Ruth St. Denis
#79. I try to pace myself and not work for the sake of working and stick to what inspired me prior to receiving recognition.
Adrien Brody
#81. So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes ... I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.
Ulysses S. Grant
#82. People tend to over react on situations to have a bigger and better story to tell, thus receiving more attention.
Johan Coetzer
#83. In the desert I often whisper. Junipers are excellent sounding boards. They have been shaped by wing. Rocks seem to care nothing about what I say, yet when I speak to them, they feel porous, capable of receiving my words and taking them in as part of their history of brokenness.
Terry Tempest Williams
#84. The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone's hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting the other party as if they were responsible for a past death in your family, or your adoption as a child.
Wes Locher
#85. Every interaction in the marketplace produces some kind of evaluation or appraisal opportunity that can be conveyed to others by the person on the receiving end of the interaction.
Jim Blasingame
#86. Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.
Coventry Patmore
#87. Do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, and bearing in mind, that vague and uncertain accounts of things [are] ... more disturbing and dangerous than receiving none at all.
George Washington
#88. The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#89. I am open to receiving help with moving forward toward my dreams and aspirations.
Renae A. Sauter
#91. What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we need to unfold?
Oriah Dreamer
#92. And to both, bee and flower, the giving and the receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Kahlil Gibran
#93. Be aware of everything around you, because you are receiving the answers to your questions in every moment of the day.
Rhonda Byrne
#94. The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents
contents which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them.
Dag Hammarskjold
#95. I hate receiving compliments; I hate being told I'm talented or people think I'm going to be a movie star. I always feel that it's forced and fake.
Megan Fox
#96. When we root ourselves so that we are experiencing love on all levels - feeling it in our body and heart, accepting love, surrounded by love, generating love - then we are giving as well as receiving at the same time that we are connected to God.
Laura Lane
#97. What we must seek is a plan by which the men will receive high wages when the employers are receiving high prices for the product.
Charles M. Schwab
#98. 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
#99. Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
William Hazlitt
#100. On Receiving Straight As on My Report Card Hot damn! You're a smart kid - I don't care what people say about you! ... I'm kidding, nobody says you're not smart. They say other stuff, but not that.
Justin Halpern
