Asking Quotes

• Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 31, 2012

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• Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

  Jim Rohn

  Self Esteem, Ocean, New Beginnings

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 14, 2016

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• Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas

  Paula Poundstone

  Children, Growing Up, Kids

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• You create your opportunities by asking for them.

  Shakti Gawain

  Life, Sports, Positivity

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Prayer

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.240, Courier Corporation

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• Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Inspirational, Wise Words

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• Don't apologize for asking for what you deserve.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Simple, What You Deserve, Apologizing

  "‘Morning Joe’ Co-Host Mika Brzezinksi’s Favorite Things" by Miller Mobley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2013.

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• If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

  Nora Roberts

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin

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• The answers you get depend upon the questions you ask.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Entrepreneur, Answers, Questioning

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• Asking is the beginning of receiving.

  Jim Rohn

  Receiving

  "The First Step in Receiving: Be Willing to Ask" by Carrie Doubts, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2016.

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• Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Kingdoms, Intercessors

  Charles Spurgeon (1997). “Praying Successfully”, p.23, Whitaker House

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• Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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• I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.

  Anne Rice

  Asking Questions, Literature

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• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Truth, War, Asking Questions

  Gravity's Rainbow episode 28 (1973)

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• Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dance, Writing, Echoes

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sad, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

  John F. Kennedy

  Love, Blessing, Land

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Life, God, Wisdom

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• Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

  John Perry Barlow

  Technology, Government, Politics

  "The Guardian view on internet privacy: it’s the psychology, stupid". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2018.

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• Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

  Voltaire

  Wisdom, Clever, Men

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• No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

  Bertrand Russell

  Beauty, Beautiful, Real

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• If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.

  Sofia Vergara

  Years, Natural, Breasts

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• Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Life, Clever, Intelligent

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

  Gerald Vann

  Prayer, Mean, Thinking

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• I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.

  Corbin Bleu

  Fun, People, Friendly

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