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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

Love, Character, Emotional

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

Power, War, Lies

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir

Nature, Far, Walk

A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
Joyce Maynard

Loyalty, Person, Deserves

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
Martin Luther

Feelings, Word, Conscience

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Napoleon Hill

Best, May, Belief

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

Love, Kindness, Difference

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

Humility, Friends, Blood

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

Art, End, Person

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

Trust, Money, Against

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

Change, Nature, Great

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

Value, Manner, Bestowed

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

God, Someone, Person

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
Publilius Syrus

Person, Knows, Return

It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
Alfred North Whitehead

Humanity, Expression, Literature

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
George Ade

Important, Words, Ten

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.
John Bates Clark

Another, Whole, Makes

In New York and L.A., there is sort of that silent competition to be on the cutting edge of something. You end up having a conversation with how the world receives your work, especially if you are writing narrative, not fiction. Sometimes it is an awkward conversation. It's like group therapy.
Sloane Crosley

Work, End, Writing

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.
Franz Liszt

Through, Theatre, Initiative

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.
Bernard Baruch

Him, Others, Less

The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
Rod McKuen

Giving, Accept, Almost

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
Richard King

Movies, Behavior, Television

We have made drugs an Olympic event. It receives most of the coverage at the Games and even the suspicion of guilt can ruin a reputation for life.
Bill Toomey

Life, Made, Reputation

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

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

Doubt, Stands, Cross

He who gives love, receives love.
Omar Torrijos Herrera

The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.
William Ames

God, Means, Direction

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

Health, Tell, Whether

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
John Philip Sousa

Himself, Higher, Conscious

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
Yoshihiko Noda

Hope, Through, Discourage

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