Joseph Joubert Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know." Ann M. Martin
  "Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Children, Book, Reading

• Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

  Joseph Joubert

  Powerful, Writing, Never Giving Up

• How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

  Joseph Joubert

  Strength, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Flower, Science, Animal

• Young authors give their brains much exercise and little food.

  Joseph Joubert

  Exercise, Giving, Brain

• When you give, give with joy and smiling.

  Joseph Joubert

  Giving, Joy

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.64

• We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

  Joseph Joubert

  Friendship, Giving, Opinion

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

• When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

  Joseph Joubert

  Appreciation, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Forms of government become established of themselves. They shape themselves, they are not created. We may give them strength and consistency, but we cannot call them into being. Let us rest assured that the form of government can never be a matter of choice: it is almost always a matter of necessity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Government, Giving, Choices

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

  Joseph Joubert

  Song, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1877). “Pensées of Joubert”, p.11

• If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success.

  Joseph Joubert

  Success, Men, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

• Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

  Joseph Joubert

  Giving, Soul, Flavor

• A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

  Joseph Joubert

  Essence, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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