(1662 quotes found)
“If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.”
Catherine Ponder
“The sea all water, yet receives rain still,And in abundance addeth to his store,So thou being rich in will add to thy willOne will of mine to make thy large will more.”
William Shakespeare
“We find what we expect to find, and we receive what we ask for.”
Elbert Hubbard
“To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility -- these are marks of maturity and graciousness.”
William Arthur Ward
“And now the time returns again: / Our souls exult, and London's towers / Receive the Lamb of God to dwell / In England's green and pleasant bowers.”
William Blake
“Freely ye have received, freely give.”
Bible
“I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy - "Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay.”
John Milton
“Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive”
Wilbur Wright
“The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it”
Cato the Censor