"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."

Giving, Favors, Feeling, Pleasure

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"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."

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"Giving is the key to all success in all applications of human life."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Giving, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return."

Robert Collier, American Publisher

Giving,

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."

Jules Renard, French Dramatist

Giving, Man

"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."

Henry Ellis, British Psychologist

Giving, Nothing

"What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject."

Mariel Hemingway, American Actress

Giving,

"I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour."

Francesca Annis, English Actress

Giving, Production, Projects, Support

"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."

Gustav Mahler, Austrian Composer

Giving,

"It's only the giving that makes you what you are."

Ian Anderson, British Musician

Giving,

"To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back."

Tom Brown, American Actor

Giving, Man, Poor

"You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me."

Lee Hazlewood, American Musician

Giving,

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"Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist."

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"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

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"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

Failure

"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."

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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

Dissent

"Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor."

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"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody."

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"Giving is the key to all success in all applications of human life."

"You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return."

"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."

"One can know nothing of giving aught that is worthy to give unless one also knows how to take."

"What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject."

"I go on giving interviews because I've been brought up to support the projects I'm involved in. When you've enjoyed working on a production, you want to do them a favour."

"I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way."

"It's only the giving that makes you what you are."

"To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back."

"You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me."

Explore more quotes by Eric Hoffer

"Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist."

"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression."

"A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come."

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

"Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor."

"The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody."

"Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself."

"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."

"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."