Begging Quotes

Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.

Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.

People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.

Borrowing is not much better than begging.

Bragging often precedes begging.

I know for a fact that if there's a role which I am suited for, I'll be signed on. I'll never go begging.

Beggars market their incapacity.

A man never got a woman back... not by begging on his knees.

I'm not going to sing something if it doesn't make sense to me, or if it makes me look like I'm begging someone or I'm weak, because that's not me.

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I’m obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I’ve basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I’m dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There’s a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Whether I give to a beggar or not, his existence puts me in the wrong.

Beggars should be no choosers.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

It is not begging but the beggar, who has forfeited favor with the elect.

Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg

Beggars beg to get money, not to reproach the passerby.

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

A beggar always remains a beggar. Africa, stop begging - you have what it takes to solve your problem.

With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

A beggar hates his benefactor as much as he hates himself for begging.