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• Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Novels
  • Modesty
  • Receive

• "Give more than you receive – not just money – but intangibles such as encouragement, love, support, and time."

  

  Barry Farber
  • Give
  • Receive
  • Intangibles

• There is a point at which we begin to receive a diminishing return on the accumulation of sacred knowledge unless we use it to at least try to improve the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Point

• When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Men
  • Obligation
  • Favours

• The pilgrims continue to come. Only God knows what each one of us brings, and with what kind of heart. We come mystically to this cave. We know the mess we bring and the often distracted heart that brings it. But this is all we have--all we are. One stretches out his arms to receive.

  

  Basil Pennington
  • Heart
  • Pilgrims
  • Only God Knows

• You cannot receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Give
  • Receive
  • Determines

• Everyone’s competing for a love they won't receive.

  

  Lorde
  • Love
  • Everyone
  • Receive

• Great spiritual teachings do not change, but we do. As we grow older and wiser, we can receive the teachings at deeper levels.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Great
  • Change
  • Spiritual

• As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Blessed
  • Receive

• For me, love is an enhanced state of kindness, compassion, service, respect, and humility, an emotion I feel we are all here to give and to receive.

  

  Nathan East
  • Love
  • Emotion
  • Give

• The black vote is always important, and the reason is it serves as a tremendous base for the Democratic Party. On the national level, Democrats traditionally receive at least 90 percent of the black vote.

  

  Roland Martin
  • Black
  • Vote
  • Democratic Party

• Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Receive
  • Instructing

• Never let yourself think that because God has given you many things to do for Himpressing routine jobs, a life full up with duties and demands of a very practical sort---that all these need separate you from communion with Him. God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament; however unexpected its outward form may be receive Him in every sight and sound, joy, pain, opportunity and sacrifice.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Present

• One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express.

  

  John Astin
  • Express
  • Receive
  • Feedback

• Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive.

  

  Jen Selinsky
  • Gifts
  • Receive
  • Literacy

• My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Write
  • Remains
  • Varies

• He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to all; for though Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God’s benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him.

  

  John Calvin
  • Christ
  • Sins
  • Suffered

• All the other industries will receive warmth and sustenance from khadi industry.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Receive
  • Industries
  • Sustenance

• To tell you the Truth: It's better to give rather than to receive.

  

  Amado Nervo
  • Truth
  • Give
  • Receive

• It is more blessed to give than to receive, but then it is also more blessed to be able to do without than to have to have.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Blessed
  • Receive

• If we want to know God personally, to relate to Him intimately, we must be prepared to receive and experience His glory.

  

  Che Ahn
  • God
  • Know
  • Glory

• I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.

  

  George Eliot
  • Interests
  • Receive
  • Alacrity

• Only when we succeed in creating such an order under which people receive for their labor from the society not according to the quantity and quality of labor, but according to their needs, will it be possible to say that we have built up a communist society.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Society
  • Creating
  • Labor

• I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Kindness
  • Receive
  • Bestow

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