The Giver Quotes

The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

Now even the heavens are thankful that because of love I have become the giver of light.

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.

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

Be a go-giver, not a go-getter

The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'.

Memories are not just about the past. They determine our future.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.

They were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them.

The mind can’t explain it, and you can’t make it go away. It’s called love.

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything.

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

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.

Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

Good givers are great getters.

When you're a good giver you're a good getter.

The Purusha should assume at all times the attitude of a giver of sanction while rejecting the lower movements and accepting only truth-movements.

Loving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God.

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.

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.

That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.

Christmas means 'giving,' and the gift without the giver is bare. Give of yourselves; give of your substance; give of your heart and mind.

Born to be some body." You were born to be some body, maybe a vet, maybe a hero, maybe a care giver. What ever it is you were born to be some thing special and if you believe you can achieve

For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you, who deem yourself a giver, are but a witness.

Accept the gift and honor the giver.

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.

Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.

Peace can come to both the giver and the receiver as we follow the promptings of the Spirit to serve one another.

Service heals the recipient and the giver.

There is no word for the recipient of the love. There is only a word for the giver. There is the assumption that lovers come in pairs.

One of the great ball-givers in the United Kingdom is Nicholas Parsons.

...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.

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!'

I'm going to be the most competitive birth-giver ever.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

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.

The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.

Do not get attached to that which is given, be attached to the Giver.

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

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.

A scientist who writes for a grant has to write subpar papers - so that the grant giver will understand what the paper is about.

When thou receivest praise, take it indifferently, and return it to God, the giver of the gift, or blesser of the action.

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

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.

As God loves a cheerful giver, so he also loves a cheerful taker. Who takes hold of his gifts with a glad heart.