Receive Quotes

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give. (Victor Hugo)
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude. View quote
Anne Frank
Education is what most receive, many pass on, and few possess. View quote
Karl Kraus
Many receive advice, but the wise profit from it. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. View quote
Dante Alighieri
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice. View quote
Joseph Addison
Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose. View quote
Wilfred Owen
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. View quote
Og Mandino
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire to receive even greater benefits. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present. View quote
Marianne Williamson
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. View quote
Jane Austen
Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. View quote
Bill Gates
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. View quote
Marcel Proust
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. View quote
Albert Einstein
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this And radio operates exactly the same way you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. View quote
Albert Einstein
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give. (Taisen Deshimaru)
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. View quote
Karl Menninger
I like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand. View quote
Edward Albee