Hospitality Quotes

• Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place.

  Henri Nouwen

  Space, People, Offers

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.71, Image

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• True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Giving, Guests

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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  Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Christmas, Thank You, Heart

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• Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Friends, Loyalty

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• The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Mean, Two, Greek

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• Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  John Locke (1824). “The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book”, p.356

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• Hospitality means we take people into the space that is our lives and our minds and our hearts and our work and our efforts. Hospitality is the way we come out of ourselves. It is the first step towards dismantling the barriers of the world. Hospitality is the way we turn a prejudiced world around, one heart at a time.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Heart, Mean, Space

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• Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united
  with faith in his justice

  George Washington Goethals

  Leadership, Faith, Justice

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• There is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.

  Washington Irving

  Thank You, Heart, Ease

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.288

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• What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe,
  and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and
  balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the
  science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It
  means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something
  nice to eat.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Nice, Food

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• Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Mean, Compassion

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn, and you will.

  Vernon Howard

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thank You, Lying, Honor

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• Hospitality should have no other nature than love.

  Henrietta Mears

  Should Have, Should

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• Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest. The concept of hospitality arose in ancient times when the reciprocity was easier to see: in nomadic cultures, the food and shelter one gave to a stranger yesterday is the food and shelter one hopes to receive from a stranger tomorrow. By offering hospitality, one participates in the endless reweaving of a social fabric on which all can depend-thus the gift of sustenance for the guest becomes a gift of hope for the host.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Offering, Yesterday, Culture

  Parker J. Palmer (2017). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.51, John Wiley & Sons

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• There is no hospitality like understanding.

  Vanna Bonta

  Understanding

  "Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel". Book by Vanna Bonta, June 1995.

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• True Hospitality is welcoming the stranger on her own terms. This kind of hospitality can only be offered by those who've found the center of their lives in their own hearts.

  Henri Nouwen

  Home, Heart, Welcome

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• It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  People, Too Much, Pleasure

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• The good guest is almost invisible, enjoying him or herself, communing with fellow guests, and, most of all, enjoying the generous hospitality of the hosts.

  Emily Post

  Guests, Host, Invisible

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• Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

  Samuel Pepys

  Friendship, Real Friends, Bed

  Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.651, Univ of California Press

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• Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Men, Space

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “Reaching Out”, p.71, Image

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• True hospitality is a delicate balance of warmth and form.

  Sheila Ostrander

  Balance, Form, Delicate

  Sheila Ostrander (1968). “Etiquette for today”

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• In order to solve problems, information has to be shared; and not only information, but doubts, fears and questions.

  John Harvey-Jones

  Leadership, Communication, Order

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• The earth community, the Life Community, is not the property of any one religion or group or part of the world; it is the Commons that embraces us all, our planetary home. And it needs us as never before. It calls to us to become, not heroes but community builders, builders of home, gatherers and embracers, bearers of hospitality, keepers of the shared space that nurtures us all. It calls us not to go forth and come back laden with honors but to honor where we are, who we are, and from that place to reach out to connect to and honor each other in the community of life.

  David Spangler

  Hero, Home, Space

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• When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

  Max Beerbohm

  Art, Soul, House Guests

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.91, 1st World Publishing

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