Top 100 Quotes About The Giver
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
Ann Patchett
#8. Giving saves lives. Especially the giver's.
Shannon Kopp
#9. The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.
John Naisbitt
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.
Lois Lowry
#15. Nature is good, but intellect is better, as the law-giver is before the law-receiver.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#16. 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
#17. The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Food is the all-purpose comforter, the giver of warmth, the source of the artificial yet deeply appreciated sugar high.
Jessica Zafra
#22. Seeking rest is like seeking the gift rather than the Giver; you can't receive the gift without first finding the Giver.
Jenari Skye
#23. I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
Lois Lowry
#24. 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
#25. The Sun is the sole inconsumable fireAnd God is the sole inexhaustible Giver.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. Pure love is an unmediated, unmitigated, and unrevealing, but everlasting source of joy for the giver and for the receiver.
Debasish Mridha
#27. The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
Catherine Hall
#28. All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors - in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.
Fred Rogers
#29. They said, we have education, but what about jobs? So I started telling them, you should be taking a pledge, and the pledge should be: 'I'm not a job seeker; I'm a job giver.' Prepare yourself to be a job giver.
Muhammad Yunus
#30. A gift
its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you
may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#31. It is clear that any sexual relationship other than that between a legally wedded heterosexual husband and wife is sinful. The divine mandate of marriage between man and woman puts in perspective why homosexual acts are offensive to God. They repudiate the gift and the Giver of eternal life.
Victor L. Brown
#32. What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#33. If you're always a giver, give yourself a break. Take time for yourself; your well-being is at stake. If you're always a receiver, try a turn at giving. Experience for yourself one of the joys of living.
Elsie Hillman-Gordon
#34. Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.
John Eldredge
#35. Time is not a thief but the giver of all things. Apathy, sloth and indifference are the thieves that loot the chest of wealth that time has given you"
Christopher Sharp
Christopher Sharp
#36. The Giver's Fact: No matter what it appears to be, feedback information is almost totally about the giver, not the receiver.
Anonymous
#37. Are you scared of going in to see the raghnaid [the council]?" asked a gray female pup.
"Are you cag mag [crazy]? If a bear was his Milk Giver, you think he's scared of the raghnaid?
Kathryn Lasky
#38. 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
#39. He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.
Lois Lowry
#40. Fierce - fervent in her affection. A giver of tight hugs and plentiful kisses. That's the makings of the best kind of mom.
Emma Chase
#41. The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.
Hal Roach
#42. Do you know that I no longer see colors?
Jonas's heart broke.
Lois Lowry
#43. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great it destroys the giver.
Cassandra Clare
#44. I am the child of Fortune, the giver of good, and I shall not be shamed. She is my mother; my sisters are the Seasons; my rising and my falling match with theirs. Born thus, I ask to be no
other man than that I am.
Sophocles
#45. For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
John Calvin
#46. If you are a good giver, you will be great getter. The less you need, the more you attract.
Russell Simmons
#47. The greatest masters are the greatest apprentices as well; they are not only greatest givers but also greatest takers.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#48. 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
#49. Gift better than Himself God doth not know,
Gift better than God no man can see;
This gift doth here the giver given bestow
Gift to this gift let each receiver be;
God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,
God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me.
Robert Southwell
#50. God is the only true Giver, and He needs nothing from us. But still He wants us. He gave us life so that we might seek and know Him.
Francis Chan
#52. Thou O Lord, art my Father and Thou my Mother. Thou art the Giver of peace to my soul and very life.
Guru Arjan
#54. I am the seeker of love, I am the giver of love, and I became the love.
Debasish Mridha
#55. It is not enough to take good decisions and make good choices. It is necessary to take heed and comply with whatever you plan and that can only happen by the influence of the Lord God, the giver of your dreams.
Israelmore Ayivor
#56. The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.
Kathryn Jean Lopez
#57. The one who teaches is the giver of eyes.
Confucius
#58. Any human being who accepts the help of another, knows that good will is the giver's only motive and that good will is the payment he owes in return.
Ayn Rand
#59. Don't let money change your direction; that's the job of the giver of the money.
Israelmore Ayivor
#60. Love isn't a prize given on merit, or something to be taken back when there's a mistake. It's a gift, as much for the giver as the one who's given it.
Nora Roberts
#62. For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.
William Shakespeare
#63. Christ is no Moses, no law-giver, no tyrant, but the Mediator for sins, the Giver of grace and life.
Martin Luther
#65. If we want to know our God-given gifts, we must know the giver.
Eric Samuel Timm
#66. God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him.
Monica Johnson
#67. Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life
Fela Kuti
#68. If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.
Dillon Burroughs
#69. Loving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God.
Thomas S. Monson
#70. When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants.
Aldo Leopold
#71. The more you get, the more you get to give.
J.R. Rim
#72. Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#73. Avoid the penalties of the blame game. You were born to be boss player, not a blame giver. Stop the blame!
Israelmore Ayivor
#74. Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Barbara De Angelis
#75. The mind can't explain it, and you can't make it go away. It's called love.
Lois Lowry
#76. One of the great ball-givers in the United Kingdom is Nicholas Parsons.
Derek Nimmo
#77. Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.
James Anthony Froude
#78. That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.
Paul Magrs
#79. A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.
Bruce Lee
#80. 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
#81. When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
Cate Blanchett
#82. It's a very brave thing for anyone to do, offering love to another person. We make ourselves so vulnerable when we do it, don't we? We give that other person such power to hurt us and to rob us of our dignity. No one should ever belittle that gift, nor the giver.
Lynn Hall
#83. When you care about someone and give them something special. Something that they treasire. That's a gift.
Lois Lowry
#84. God is the greatest giver in the universe, He won't let you outgive Him.
Randy Alcorn
#85. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen.
Lois Lowry
#86. The dream giver [God] will remove mountains, He'll fill valleys, He'll straighten crocket ways for you to fulfil your dreams. And His timing is the best.
Euginia Herlihy
#87. I didn't reply as he had hoped to a student who emailed me some years later, with the request "Please list all the similes and metaphors in The Giver," I'm sure it contained those as well.)
Lois Lowry
#88. Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#89. He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Thomas A Kempis
#90. Giving is the way God chooses to change our hearts. As your heart changes, your attitude and feelings will follow suit. God loves a cheerful giver, but he'll put your money to good use whether you're cheerful or not. My advice: Give until you get cheerful. As I've said, our giving must impact our
Andy Stanley
#91. God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.
Miroslav Volf
#92. People are starting to refer to 'The Giver' as a classic, but I don't know how that is defined. But if it means that 10, 20, 50 years from now kids will still be reading it, that is kind of awe-inspiring.
Lois Lowry
#93. I used to always worry about money and where it would come from, but now I know that God is the supplier and the giver of good gifts.
Jean Coleman
#94. In all works of liberality something more is to be considered besides the occasion of the givers; and that is the occasion of the receivers.
Thomas Sprat
#95. Most creatures have a vague belief that a very precarious hazard, a kind of transparent membrane, divides death from love; and that the profound idea of nature demands that the giver of life should die at the moment of giving.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#96. The right to life is not a woman's issue. The Lord is the giver of life and only He can make choices about life. It is always a reward to have life ... only the Lord gives and takes life.
Margaret Heckler
#97. Contentment celebrates grace. The contended heart is satisfied with the Giver and is therefore freed from craving the next gift.
Paul David Tripp
#99. Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.
Mahatma Gandhi
#100. A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.
John Stott
