A Quote by Julian of Norwich

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.

Julian of Norwich

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Julian of Norwich
November 8, 1342 - 1416

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.

Julian of Norwich

Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

Sara Teasdale

A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost.

Thomas Huxley

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

Eileen Caddy

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Saint Ignatius

Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Not everything that counts can be counted. You can count sales. You can count fans and followers. You can count pins and tweets. But you can't count passion. You can't count commitment. You can't count engagement. You can't count relationships.

John Kremer

Before you count the profit, count the cost of a working mother.

A. Theodore Tuttle

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.

Colum McCann

Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.

Frederick Lenz

Teach us, Good Lord, to give and not count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labor and not to ask for any reward save that of knowing that we do thy will.

Ignatius of Loyola

People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.

Patch Adams

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.

Ignatius of Loyola

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Marlo Thomas

Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.

Douglas Crockford

My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'

Marlo Thomas

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