Top 79 Givers Quotes & Sayings

We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for.

I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.

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.

The gifts of genius are far greater than the givers themselves venture to suppose.

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.'

There are times we are givers, but others time we have to let others give to us.

So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.

The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.

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

In their role as celestial servants to humans on earth, Angels act variously as guardians, guides, teachers, truth-givers and comforters, protectors of the righteous, punishers of the wicked, and more.

Givers for God disarm the power of money.

Poets should be law-givers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.

The Atman alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever.

We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.

From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.

The most successful givers aren’t doing it because they’re being told to. They do it because doing it is fun. It gives them joy.

Getters don't get - givers get.

Parents give birth; the Guru gives life. These life-givers are the soul of the magnificent building. The school building which the government can construct is like the body, but the teachers are the soul.

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

My husband and I are big givers to charity, and we are teaching our son Barron all about giving his old toys away to children who might not have any.

We are convinced, then, that autistic people have their place in the organism of the social community. They fulfil their role well, perhaps better than anyone else could, and we are talking of people who as children had the greatest difficulties and caused untold worries to their care-givers.

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give.

Sure they say we (women) are life givers not takers, but guess what, most women can multi-task and be life givers and fighters. Boxing is not a life-taking sport. Boxing is not a violent sport; it's an art, a dance, a science. Sometimes the smarter boxer wins and sometimes the stronger boxer wins. Of course aggression is a feminine quality. It's a quality that exists in human beings whether they are men or women.

Good givers are great getters.

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.

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.

What is originality? To see something that is as yet without a name, that is as yet impossible to designate, even though it staresus in the face. The way it usually is with people, it is a thing's name that makes it perceptible to them in the first place.--For the most part, the original ones have also been the name-givers.

The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.

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

The fact that women are the primary care-givers is a problem for women and men

When we as a society begin to value mothers as the givers and supporters of life, then we will see social change in ways that matter.

The world is a beautiful place, travel has been my greatest teacher, my close friends and folks are the greatest givers. I even have a ring of support around my bed as I type … Goodbye world. Spread good energy. Pay it forward!

The givers of most of the corruption in Africa are from outside Africa.

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'

But whenever she thanks the givers for favors great and small, she thinks of the good little sister who gave her more than they all.

The myth that men are the economic providers and women, mainly, are mothers and care givers in the family has now been thoroughly refuted. This family pattern has never been the norm, except in a narrow middle-class segment.

I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose.

Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people.

We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.

This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

We are givers, not takers.

I think the great livers, the people who are fully self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.

Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.

Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What we are trying to do is become perfect givers.

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

Apart from being motivation for themselves, I think big givers should also talk about their philanthropy so that their work and their success stories prove inspirational enough for many others to follow.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

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.

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).

People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.

Givers of great dinners know few enemies.

Takers believe in a zero-sum world, and they end up creating one where bosses, colleagues and clients don't trust them. Givers build deeper and broader relationships - people are rooting for them instead of gunning for them.

Women are very comfortable giving to charities or things they believe in, but not as much political givers.

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