This collection holds 532 receiving quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Lara Flynn Boyle, Zach Ertz and Florence Scovel Shinn.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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I love receiving fan mail.

My role isn't just receiving.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Asking is the beginning of receiving.

You don't measure life by receiving awards.

I am not receiving orders from Ariel Sharon.

I have to live up to the love I am receiving.

Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity.

Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense.

Receiving praise from Cristiano Ronaldo is a joy.

Acting is communication. It's giving and receiving.

Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.

I am overwhelmed with the love I have been receiving.

I am honored to be receiving the Point Courage Award.

Always fight for quality, whether giving or receiving.

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

The key to effective giving is to stay open to receiving.

When you shut down the giving you shut down the receiving.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion.

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

I am hugely honoured and proud to be receiving a knighthood.

I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.

Music is meaningless noise unless it touches a receiving mind.

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.

I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm.

Nothing would disgust me more, morally, than receiving an Oscar.

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.

Genius is the capacity for receiving and improving by discipline.

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'

I feel very awkward about receiving attention for the wrong reasons.

I'm grateful for the support I'm receiving from the people of Hawaii.

I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.

In my opinion, giving a kiss is a much better prize than receiving one.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

Receiving my first degree was one of the most important days of my life.

Giving with the intention of receiving really isn't giving, it's trading.

Your play account is also designed to strengthen your "receiving" muscle.

One glorious chain of love, of giving and receiving, unites all creatures.

We came to be Babymetal after receiving a divine message from the Fox God.

It is better to deserve without receiving than to receive without deserving

Perhaps your fear in passing judgement is greater than mine in receiving it.

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