Begging Quotes

• Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1851). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.61

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• 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.

  Sharon Jones

  Looks, Weak, Make Sense

  "Sharon Jones on soul music, cancer, and Leonardo DiCaprio". Interview with Kyle Fowle, music.avclub.com. January 15, 2014.

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• We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.

  James McGreevey

  Impact, Needs, Purpose

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• Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

  Toni Morrison

  Love, Self Respect, Humiliation

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• 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.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Roles, Facts, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

  Mortimer Adler

  Careers, Differences, Justice

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• Beggars market their incapacity.

  Mason Cooley

  Incapacity, Beggar

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Hate, Charity, Benefactors

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• There are so many moments to remember and sometimes I think that maybe we're not really people at all. Maybe moments are what we are.... Sometimes I just survive. But sometimes I stand on the rooftop of my existence, arms stretched out, begging for more.

  Markus Zusak

  Thinking, People, Rooftops

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

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Instruction

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• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

  Francis of Assisi

  Sublime, Treasure, Poverty

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• The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

  Kelly Miller

  Needs, Want, Pay

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• Borrowing is not much better than begging.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Begging You, Lending, Borrowing

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1950). “Nathan the Wise: (Nathan der Weise)”

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• Relax...90% of haters are begging for love. 10% just want a little attention

  Paulo Coelho

  Relax, Attention, Want

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 22, 2011

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Poverty, Poor, Beggar

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1043, Wordsworth Editions

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• Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

  John Eudes

  Life, God, Faith

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• I need someone physically stronger than me.... I am always on top. It's really unfortunate. I am begging for the man that can put me on the bottom. Or the woman. Anybody that can take me down.

  Angelina Jolie

  Men, Stronger, Needs

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• When is the last time you saw a Lamborghini sale?

  Chris Campbell

  Design, Lamborghini, Hitchhiking

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• I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

  Rod Taylor

  Wisdom, Artist, Feet

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• You refuse to forgive people, and yet on the Day of Judgment you will stand bare, begging Allah to forgive you.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  People, Forgiving, Judgment

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• Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.

  Jose Celso Barbosa

  Education, Color, Justice

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• We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Animal, Trying

  "In Awe of Words". The Exonian, 75th anniversary edition, Exeter University, 1930.

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• 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.

  Francis of Assisi

  Begging You, Order, Names

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• Beggars should be no choosers.

  John Heywood

  Should, Beggar

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.170

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

  Doris Lessing

  Begging You, Stealing, Lending

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