Marya Mannes Quotes

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

When you're doing a job that benefits other people, it's easy to assume that they feel conscious of the fact that you're doing this work - that they should feel grateful, and that they should and do feel guilty about not helping you.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people.

We're the most generous country in all of the world.

I try to help everybody that I can.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.

What was freely given to me, I freely give.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

I enjoy giving money away. The more you give, the more you get.

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

Obviously, people in Texas have big hearts.

Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.