Top 100 Giver Quotes
#1. The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.
Max Anders
#2. Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.
Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#3. If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#4. Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#5. My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.
Albert Einstein
#6. If my gift has a giver other than indifferent Nature and comes with a purpose, then the angel in charge of the Odd Thomas account must be operating on a shoestring budget.
Dean Koontz
#8. After the birth of a boy, mothers rested from one moon to the next, but the birth of a birth-giver required a longer period of separation from the world of men.
Anita Diamant
#9. I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient.
Emily Giffin
#10. He did not really understand the game they were playing: in his world, the best way to get something was to deserve it, not to toady to the giver.
Ken Follett
#11. There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.
David Levithan
#13. Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.
Marvin Olasky
#16. Unsolicited advice is usually more about the needs of the giver than the receiver.
Charles F. Glassman
#17. The Giver of Existence is Eternally Existent; there is no harm, therefore, in the passing of beings, for the things that are loved continue to exist through the continuance of the One Who gave them existence, the Necessary Existent.
Said Nursi
#18. My concept of an advice giver had been a therapist or a know-it-all, and then I realized nobody listens to the know-it-alls. You turn to the people you know, the friend who has been in the thick of it or messed up - and I'm that person for sure.
Cheryl Strayed
#20. If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.
Tony Robbins
#22. Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious.
[Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]
Ovid
#23. The giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
Laura Huxley
#24. This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#26. Love is bliss only if you are a giver, not otherwise.
Tapan Ghosh
#27. The Giver of life gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
Thomas Jefferson
#28. We so easily forget that we came into life with nothing. Whatever we get soon seems our natural right, not a gift. And we forget the giver. Then our gaze shifts from what we have been given to what we dont have yet ...
Henry B. Eyring
#29. If you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate.
Price Pritchett
#30. I want to be Willy Wonka. He has a really fun spirited side but also a dark, justice-giver side.
Drew Daywalt
#31. If everyting's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Jonas)
"It's the choosing that's imortant, isn't it?" The Giver asked him.
Lois Lowry
#32. Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' ... Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.
Ilana Mercer
#33. Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 2 Corinthians 9:7
Suzanne Crocker
#34. Indian sages avoided the written word as they realized ideas were never definitive; they were transformed depending on the intellectual and emotional abilities of the giver as well as the receiver.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#35. A committed giver is an incurably happy person, a secure person, a satisfied person, and a prosperous person.
Eric Butterworth
#37. God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture ...
J.I. Packer
#38. Born to be some body. You were born to be some body, maybe a vet, maybe a hero, maybe a care giver. What ever it is you were born to be some thing special and if you believe you can achieve
Justin Bieber
#39. We knock a time or two at the gate of mercy, and as no friendly messenger opens the door, we go our ways. Too many prayers are like boys' runaway knocks, given, and then the giver is away before the door can be opened.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#40. For every giver there must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.
T. Harv Eker
#41. Bid me come, and here I am. Shape my being, and for a short time I can move mortal air in and out of my chest. Ask me to love you, Bright Light, and you make real a dream-giver's deepest desire.
Jennifer Ashley
#42. Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself
Jeremy Griffith
#43. I should never seek a job in my life, my mission in life is to create jobs. I am not a job seeker, I am a job giver.
Muhammad Yunus
#44. The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly.
Lois Lowry
#45. In the scenes I try to be a giver as much as possible, giving the other actor something to work with. When not in the scenes I will stand in for eye lines to help the other actor with delivery and hopefully performance.
James Preston Rogers
#47. If gratitude is not rooted in the beauty of God before the gift, it is probably disguised idolatry. May God grant us a heart to delight in him for who he is so that all our gratitude for his gifts will be the echo of our joy in the excellency of the Giver!
John Piper
#48. 'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'
Lois Lowry
#49. I love to give. I've been a giver all my life.
Tyler Perry
#50. The giver gives, but really he is sowing the seed for later, the gift of a rich harvest.
Sathya Sai Baba
#51. That haunting longing for the moon returned. Stronger, broader, flavoured with all the bone-deep desire only a nocturnal creature could feel for their sole light-giver, the lonely satellite that watched over them when the rest of the daylight world abandoned them.
L.J. Hayward
#52. Is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.
Preston Sprinkle
#53. God is the giver of life. And He's also the taker. If He spared your life, then He must have something left for you to do.
Jody Hedlund
#54. Job crafters are those who do what's expected (because it's required) and then find a way to add something new to their work. Something that delights. Something that benefits both the giver and the receiver.
David Sturt
#55. If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.
Alex Haley
#56. Because God is the giver and source of our life, He has a legitimate claim upon our lives.
Billy Graham
#57. The way I understand gifts is that the giver must make a sacrifice, create an uneven exchange, bring himself closer to the recipient, create change and do it all with the right spirit.
Seth Godin
#58. by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and The Giver by Lois Lowry. And
Sharon M. Draper
#59. In the trees this afternoon, he was a giver of bread and teddy bears.
Markus Zusak
#60. There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity and humiliate us.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#61. In my opinion, works of art should be viewed as gifts; something precious given from a point of empathy, where personal enrichment is vastly superior to the value of the gift, and the giver begs for nothing but for the gift to shine on its own.
Kevin Focke
#62. You don't need anyone's approval when it comes to your dream because the dream giver [God]is already approved it that moment He chose you to carry it.The only thing you can do is to remember that you are in the driving seat and you must keep driving until you reach your destination.
Euginia Herlihy
#63. I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.
Louis Kahn
#64. Every gift requires two freedoms: the giver's and the receiver's.
Peter Kreeft
#65. Boys are universal giver, women remains universal receiver.
Santosh Kalwar
#66. Many people who hold giver values in life choose matching as their primary reciprocity style at work, seeking an even balance of give and take.
Adam Grant
#67. APHETA (APHE'TA) n.s.[with astrologers.] The name of the plant, which is imagined to be the giver or disposer of life in a nativity.Dict.
Samuel Johnson
#68. God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.
Charles Stanley
#69. When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.
Hamza Yusuf
#70. It's possible to make sense of what's morally at stake in an appreciation of the gift of life, or the gift of a child, without necessarily presupposing that there is a giver. What matters is that the gift - in this case, the child - not be wholly our own doing, our own product.
Michael Sandel
#71. Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.
Theodore Roosevelt
#72. Often the more lavish the present, the greater the treachery the giver had probably been contemplating.
Alex Rutherford
#73. Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.
Giovanni Giocondo
#74. I discovered in belles-lettres that the Giver can be transformed into his own Gift, that is, into a pure object. Chance had made me a man, generosity would make me a book. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Lewis Hyde
#75. God is the Creator and the Giver of life, and the life that He gives does not run dry.
Brenton Brown
#76. Faith does not cease being active as it undertakes the process of rigorous thinking. One need not disavow the gifts of intellect in giving thought to their Giver
Thomas C. Oden
#77. True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.
Gautama Buddha
#78. People LOVE giving bad news. They love it. This is because negative information GREATLY empowers the giver and makes them feel important.
Chris Hardwick
#79. When a person gives to another person it's not just the receiver who's blessed. It's the giver. On
Fredrik Backman
#80. Since we have received everything from the Gods, and it is right to pay the giver some tithe of his gifts, we pay such a tithe of possessions in votive offering, of bodies in gifts of (hair and) adornment, and of life in sacrifices.
Sallust
#81. It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.
Apollonius Of Tyana
#82. One can be addicted to either lawlessness or lawfulness. Theologically there is no difference since both break relationship with God, the giver. ~ GERHARD O. FORDE
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#83. Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
Edmund Burke
#84. Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#85. I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read 'The Giver' now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.
Lois Lowry
#86. Peace can come to both the giver and the receiver as we follow the promptings of the Spirit to serve one another.
Barbara W. Winder
#87. Self-love is an incredible equalizer. When self love is running the show, the over giver learns to honor their own yes's and no's. In the same way the over taker learns to honor another person's yes's and no's.
Christina Marie
#88. The key was disclosure, and nobody has ever raised a concern that anybody who contributed, whether a campaign contributor or a gift giver, ever got anything for it.
Tim Kaine
#89. Evil and Good are things in their own essebce and not made good or evil by the giver. but if he gives you good so cal him; if evil springs from him, do not name it mine till ye know better its true fount
-Lucifer
George Gordon Byron
#91. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.
Martin Luther
#93. Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of the heart, an unselfish work, a sacred trust that blesses both giver and receiver.
Bonnie D. Parkin
#94. Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
Lois Lowry
#95. You are not The Giver of My Heart's Desire." I took a deep breath and smiled. "You are my heart's desire.
Julianne Donaldson
#96. Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
E. Stanley Jones
#98. Authentic gratitude is a way of life. When you wake up in the morning let your first thought be one of thanksgiving that you have another day to walk in the love of God. As you go through your day, see the Giver behind all of the gifts freely being given to you.
Michael Beckwith
#99. 'Snowpiercer' is a little bit more experimental, I think, and crafted for a slightly different audience. 'The Giver' is more about teen angst.
Marco Beltrami
#100. I don't want advice.' 'Nobody does. It's a giver's present.
John Steinbeck
