Giver Quotes

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. (Edmund Burke)
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. View quote
Maya Angelou
For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver. View quote
Barbara De Angelis
God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about. View quote
Janusz Korwin-Mikke
Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. View quote
Thomas à Kempis
What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil! View quote
Dinah Craik
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
To sow, that others may reap; to work and plant for those that are to occupy the earth when we are dead; to project our influences far into the future, and live beyond our time; to rule as the Kings of Thought, over men who are yet unborn; to bless with the glorious gifts of Truth and Light and Liberty those who will neither know the name of the giver, nor care in what grave his unregarded ashes repose, is the true office of a Mason and the proudest destiny of a man. (Albert Pike)
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. View quote
Sophocles
Now let us gather into one bouquet, from the King's garden, these seven fragrant flowers: Jesus the Son of God; Jesus our sin-bearer; Jesus the giver of eternal life; Jesus the keeper of our undying souls; Jesus the hearer of our prayers; Jesus the chastener who can turn crosses into crowns; and Jesus the wonder-worker who changes us into eternal likeness unto Himself! These flowers will keep sweet till heaven dawns. View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
In years to come, he would be a giver of bread, not a stealer - proof again of the contradictory human being. So much good, so much evil. Just add water. View quote
Markus Zusak
Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost. View quote
Philip Yancey
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. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
At the deepest level, there is no giver, no gift, and no recipient... only the universe rearranging itself. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
... surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver. (Dodie Smith)
Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver. View quote
George Washington Cable
Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed. View quote
Marvin Olasky
There's a River born to be a giver Keep you warm, wont let you shiver His heart is never gonna wither come on everybody time to deliver. View quote
River Phoenix
This gift... which God gave us in order to enable us to perfect ourselves, to learn and to teach, must not be employed in doing that which is for us most degrading and perfectly disgraceful... Those who employ the faculty of thinking and speaking in the service of that sense which is no honour to us, who think more than necessary of drink and love, or even sing of these things; they employ and use the divine gift in acts of rebellion against the Giver, and in transgression of his commandments. View quote
Maimonides