Giver Quotes
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke -
A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
Thomas à Kempis
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When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
Rumi -
We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.
Ernest Hemingway -
By my 40s, I finally got out of my own way, so I could become a life creator; a life giver.
Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel -
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
C. S. Lewis -
To give something for nothing is to weaken the giver.
John Jacob Astor -
The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high. But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river; And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.
William Butler Yeats -
If nature made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.
Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III The Alpha Band -
The greatest giver of alms is cowardice.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare -
But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!
William Cowper -
We like the gift when we the giver prize.
John Sheffield
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The more you give, the more comes back to you, because God is the greatest giver in the universe, and He won't let you outgive Him. Go ahead and try. See what happens.
Randy Alcorn -
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 -
And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or running around with other women. One is the giver and one is the taker. The giver wishes the taker would stop.
Alma Katsu -
For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?
John Calvin -
Givers for God disarm the power of money.
R. Kent Hughes -
For a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.
William Shakespeare
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The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail.
Walt Whitman -
God is the Creator and the Giver of life, and the life that He gives does not run dry.
Brenton Brown -
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 -
The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
Martin Luther