Over Giver Quotes

#1. 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

#2. My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#4. The community of the Giver had achieved at such great price. A community without danger or pain. But also, a community without music, color or art. And books.

Lois Lowry

#5. The ancient Irish bards knew the Salmon of Knowledge as the giver of all life's wisdom. In the salmon's leap of understanding like a leap of faith, we can see ourselves "in our element," immersed in the river of life. The cycle of the salmon's journey reminds us that all rivers flow to the same sea.

Lynn Culbreath Noel

#6. No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron.

Seneca The Younger

#7. Kindness is a source of relief to the soul of the giver, creating a sense of fortitude that is incomprehensible to those who do not know what kindness is all about.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#8. Food is the all-purpose comforter, the giver of warmth, the source of the artificial yet deeply appreciated sugar high.

Jessica Zafra

#9. Seeking rest is like seeking the gift rather than the Giver; you can't receive the gift without first finding the Giver.

Jenari Skye

#10. God promised you to give you dreams and visions, see Him as your great dream/vision giver.

Euginia Herlihy

#11. He who despises most things will be a law-giver among them.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#12. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Lois Lowry

#13. It is so easy to become more attached to the gifts of God than to the Giver - and even, I should add, to the work of God than to God Himself.

Watchman Nee

#14. Any woman on this planet who values herself as a woman is great. She is a giver of life. And when you are a giver of life, what more is there?

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#15. Life is a wave of love for a lover, a gift for a giver, a drama for an actor, and a canvas for a painter.

Debasish Mridha

#16. I'm not a very good advice-giver.

Juliana Hatfield

#17. The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. Pure love is an unmediated, unmitigated, and unrevealing, but everlasting source of joy for the giver and for the receiver.

Debasish Mridha

#19. The most productive, healthy and satisfying relationships are based, not on a quid pro quo but an ebb and flow of mutual support over time. Don't just be a giver. Be an extremely helpful giver who demonstrates an awareness of what that person most needs.

Kare Anderson

#20. The food which I get by begging is divine." After I had thought over what she said, I understood her meaning. When we get our food precariously as alms, we remember God the giver. But when we receive our food regularly at home, as a matter of course, we are apt to regard it as ours by right.

Rabindranath Tagore

#21. It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.

Lois Lowry

#22. What the hell are they all looking for? A way out. A way to the right way out. A way to leave. A way to go.
A way to have had it, to have had enough of it, to be done with it.
A decent way to give it all over to the giver of it all,

William, Saroyan

#23. 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

#24. The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

John Naisbitt

#25. In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us.

Swami Vivekananda

#26. Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

Cormac McCarthy

#27. Laws ... proportionate and mild should never be dispensed with. Let mercy be the character of the law-giver, but let the judge be a mere machine.

Thomas Jefferson

#28. Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude; for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehension of punishment.

Oliver Goldsmith

#29. Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#30. All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

Anne Lamott

#31. When Tony lost it, it would be up to Ruger to take Lady Death by the tits and giver a good tweak. That's how he saw it. Give Lady Death's tits a good tweak.

Jonathan Maberry

#32. The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

Ann Patchett

#33. Giving saves lives. Especially the giver's.

Shannon Kopp

#34. Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver. It is one-way love.

Preston Sprinkle

#35. Blessing is essentially the transformative experience of knowing and honoring God as the Giver; it means valuing the steady flow that sustains the world even above the gift of life that each of us receives and is in time constrained to relinquish.

Ellen F. Davis

#36. Love the giver more than the gift.

Brigham Young

#37. Grace makes you gracious. The Giver makes you give.

E. Stanley Jones

#38. Thanksgiving is recognition of a debt that cannot be paid. We express thanks, whether or not we are able otherwise to reimburse the giver.

Billy Graham

#39. A giver will never suffer a defeat.

Sunday Adelaja

#40. But then, gifts are like beauty, are
they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

J.R. Ward

#41. God is a giver of life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.

Lois Lowry

#43. Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?
See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an instrument of giving.

Kahlil Gibran

#44. Be a teacher.
Be a healer.
Be a giver.
Be a winner.

Matshona Dhliwayo