Givers Not Takers Quotes

#1. Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else.

Shaquille O'Neal

#2. Life will give to the givers, and take from the takers

Steven Aitchison

#3. The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.

Adam Grant

#5. My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

Marlo Thomas

#6. As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.

Phil Crane

#7. People who are obsessed with God are known as givers, not takers. Obsessed people genuinely think that others matter as much as they do, and they are particularly aware of those who are poor around the world (James 2:14-26).

Francis Chan

#8. So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

Greg Laurie

#9. There are two types of people on earth: givers and takers. Life is not about taking and having but about giving and living.

GE Paulus

#10. To try. To live through the horror of failure; to endure the guilt. To try again. To make that choice.

Michelle Sagara

#11. So if givers are most likely to land at the bottom of the success ladder, who's at the top - takers or matchers? Neither. When I took another look at the data, I discovered a surprising pattern: It's the givers again.

Adam M. Grant

#12. I'm really easy to get along with once you see it my way.

Stephen Hawking

#13. My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'

Marlo Thomas

#14. stupid people trying to manage me sends me into acute depression.

Tad Williams

#15. Givers advance the world. Takers advance themselves and hold the world back

Simon Sinek

#16. We turn our own lives into an information archive by storing all our emails, SMS, digital photos, and other digital traces of our existence.

Lev Manovich

#17. I feel safer when you're here. You're so big and sturdy, like a beautiful tree I can lean on and not knock over.

Karen Cushman

#18. For my grandchildren . . . and all children - this book is written with hopes of the time to come, when no child shall lie down in terror or waken to hunger, but shall know himself as a being of unique value in a safer and kindlier world.

Carlos P. Romulo

#19. Non-churchgoer s tend to see Christians as takers rather than givers. When Christians sacrifice and give wildly to the poor, that is truly a light that glimmers. The Bible teaches that the church is to be that light, that sign of hope, in an increasingly dark and hopeless world.

Francis Chan

#20. Most people are weak and frightened, and run from anything which could be upsetting. Most people, also, are takers and not givers.

Laura Schlessinger

#21. Eve means "giver of life." I don't think this redemptive calling to be a life giver is only biological. The life of Christ in us enables women to be life givers, rather than life-takers, in every relationship, circumstance, and season of life.

Gloria Furman

#22. Don't dwell on the problem; concentrate on the solution.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#23. I've learned there are givers and takers in this life. I've slowly let the takers go and I've had it for the better. God bless them, when they learn to play by the rules they are welcomed back, but my heart is worth protecting.

Donald Miller

#24. Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

Henry Ford

#25. A friend is not the shadow that mimics you, but the one who casts all shadows away.

Shannon L. Alder