Quotes About Takers And Givers

#1. 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

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

Shannon L. Alder

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

Henry Ford

#4. 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

#5. I understand that during [Sonia Sotomayor's] career, she's written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't read a single one of them, and if I'm fortunate before we end this, I won't have to read one of them.

Harry Reid

#6. While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#7. 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

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

Laura Schlessinger

#9. My personal style comes from jugaad, a Hindi word meaning doing more with less.

Leila Janah

#10. 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

#11. If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.

Carl Reiner

#12. Shopping turns me off.

Tea Leoni

#13. Many women would like to dream with men without sleeping with them. Someone should point out to them that this is utterly impossible.

Karl Kraus

#14. You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon ... everything's different.

Bill Watterson

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

Simon Sinek

#16. I'm Doomed, Doomed, DOOMED, I tell you" Jock cried

Mark A. Cooper

#17. But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

Michael Grant

#18. I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the timelessness of the project.

Peter Menzel

#20. 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

#21. We all did what we undertake to do, as faithfully as Herbert did, we might live in a Republic of the Virtues.

Charles Dickens

#22. The danger is we're losing sight of what women really want to wear.

Azzedine Alaia

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#29. Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted.

Jenny Lewis

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

Steven Aitchison