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He who gives love, receives love. -- Omar Torrijos
A person who deserves my loyalty receives it. -- Joyce Maynard
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. -- John Muir
The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them. -- Publilius Syrus
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. -- George Ade
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies. -- Richard King
You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. -- Martin Luther
Jupiter, a world far larger than Earth, is so warm that it currently radiates more internal heat than it receives from the Sun. -- Seth Shostak
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. -- Barbara de Angelis
The mind is like a sheet of white paper in this, that the impressions it receives the oftenest, and retains the longest, are black ones. -- Julius Charles Hare
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young. -- Samuel Ullman
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. -- Ellen Key
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life. -- J. C. Ryle
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it. -- John C. Maxwell
He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief. -- Jose Marti
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres. -- Alexander Pope
The very essence of civil liberty certainly consists in the right of every individual to claim the protection of the laws, whenever he receives an injury. One of the first duties of government is to afford that protection. -- John Marshall
War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed. -- Bayard Rustin
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. -- Ayn Rand
When you become an instrument in God's hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person's eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow. -- Charles Stanley
When one begins, as I did, to analyze men after a fairly long experience of analyzing women, one receives a most surprising impression of the intensity of this envy of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, as well as of breasts and of the act of suckling. -- Karen Horney
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. -- Og Mandino
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent. -- Pope Francis
Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Mosquito bites Jesus, receives communion. -- Demetri Martin
Whoever gives reverence receives reverence -- Rumi
He who prays most receives most. -- Alphonsus Liguori
He who gives love, receives love. -- Omar Torrijos
A good song receives love forever. -- Kim Jong-hyun
He receives comfort like cold porridge. -- William Shakespeare
Every terrain in life receives tear-rain. -- Junaid e Mustafa
Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned -- Robert Lembke
Sympathy one receives for nothing, envy must be earned. -- Robert Lembke
Your prayers will certainly be answered. Everyone who asks receives. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it. -- Jean de la Bruyere
A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts. -- Douglas Wilson
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. -- Corrie Ten Boom
Whoever wants light, should give light, so he receives his payment. -- Samael Aun Weor
Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions... -- Elisabeth Elliot
Grace is not something one possesses; instead, grace is something one receives. -- Bill Courtney
For he who touches the Body of Christ unworthily receives his damnation. -- Peter Chrysologus
With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience. -- Joe Orton
There is one river of Truth which receives tributaries from every side. -- Clement of Alexandria
FAITH receives more than it asks. DOUBT loses more than it disbelieved. -- Beth Moore
He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson
He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly. -- Cassiodorus
It receives you when you come and dismisses you when you go. -- Franz Kafka
Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives. -- William Wordsworth
Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression. -- Alfred North Whitehead
A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances. -- Franz Liszt
Love mistakes, as it's us that receives blessings from them in the end. -- Minzy
He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it. -- Seneca the Younger
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. -- John Stuart Mill
Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives. -- William Wordsworth
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. -- Adrian Rogers
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. -- Jonathan Swift
A noble person is mindful and thankful for the favors he receives from others. -- Gautama Buddha
The observer of beauty always receives a passion to share the beauty with others. -- Timothy Keller
The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned. -- Plato
The child builds his inmost self out of the deeply held impressions he receives. -- Maria Montessori
He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer. -- Henry David Thoreau
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. -- Seneca the Younger
Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed. -- Samuel Johnson
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning. -- Quintilian
When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time. -- Ferran Adria
Environmentally, the planet will not sustain the kind of abuse it receives at our hands. -- Marianne Williamson
INGRATE, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise an object of charity. -- Ambrose Bierce
Once a citizen receives a direct payment from the state, the state has purchased their complicity -- Charles Hugh Smith
He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestows should never remember it. -- Pierre Charron
He who reads much and understands much, receives his fill. He who is full, refreshes others. -- Ambrose
The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives. -- Walter Laqueur
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is. -- Ornette Coleman
The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it. -- Cato the Elder
Who gives is positive; who receives is negative; still there remains an immense class of mere passives. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart. -- Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone
The credibility of any item in finance is inversely proportionate to the amount of publicity it receives. -- Michael Scott
A community receives light from its history, it becomes aware of itself by remembrance of its history. -- Muhammad Iqbal
It is not saving faith to confess Christ as true. Saving faith receives Christ as a Treasure. -- John Piper
The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ. -- C. S. Lewis
Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays. Otherwise, it departs. -- Sufyan al-Thawri
The stranger who receives the rare gift of human kindness holds its value in his heart forever. -- Charles Dudley Warner
When death becomes the property of the believer it receives a new name and is called sleep. -- William Arnot
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better. -- Tryon Edwards
A true leader is not someone who feels fully informed but someone who continuously receives insight and guidance. -- Martha Beck
Whoever prematurely begins a work that is above his strength receives nothing, but only brings harm upon himself. -- Isaac of Nineveh
The friend of silence comes close to God. In secret he converses with him and receives his light. -- John Climacus
This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive. -- Criss Jami
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them. -- Rod McKuen
Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it! -- Bill Hybels
Nobody in Big Bang receives vocal lessons anymore. We're impossible to teach because we already have very distinctive colors. -- Seungri
More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality. -- Robert A. Baker
Apprentices and servants are characters perfectly distinct: the one receives instruction, the other a stipulated price for his labour. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists. -- Israel Zangwill
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease. -- Pearl S. Buck
In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. -- Edward Gibbon
Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place. -- Stephen Harper
I like to be beholden to the great metropolitan English speech, the sea which receives tributaries from every region under heaven. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
He who bestows something great receives no gratitude; for in accepting it the recipient has already been weighed down too much. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The world should take notice when someone...with a fanatic mind and with powerful means, receives his marching orders from Heaven. -- Rodrigue Tremblay
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others. -- Bernard Baruch
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it. -- Saint Augustine
The ultimate winner in life is one who receives the grace given to us by Jesus Christ and lives life accordingly. -- DeWayne Owens
The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep. -- Zhuangzi
The three most destructive words that every man receives when he's a boy is when he's told to 'be a man'... -- Joe Ehrmann
The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze. -- Giovannino Guareschi
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone. -- William James
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. -- Richard Steele
Every man is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world, and he is excluded who does not. -- Emanuel Swedenborg
The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern. -- Hans Haacke
There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives. -- Ed Parker
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes. -- Seneca the Younger
In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given. -- George MacDonald
[The child receives impressions like] a photographic exposure that can be developed after any interval of time and transformed into a picture. -- Sigmund Freud

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