Giver Quotes - Page 8

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

  John Stott

  Generosity, Acceptable

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

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Gratitude, Grateful, Oneself

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.66, A&C Black

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• You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Giving, Goes On

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• Be not too great a niggard in the commendations of him that professes thy own quality: if he deserve thy praise, thou hast discovered thy judgment; if not, thy modesty: honor either returns or reflects to the giver.

  Francis Quarles

  Honor, Quality, Return

  Francis Quarles (1880). “The Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Francis Quarles”

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• But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

  William Cowper

  God, Art, Crowns

  William Cowper (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.58

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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

  Edmund Burke

  Kings, People, Flattery

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.37

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• 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

  Giving, Looks, World

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3095, Manonmani Publishers

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• Before giving, the mind of the giver is happy; while giving, the mind of the giver is made peaceful; and having given, the mind of the giver is uplifted.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving, Peaceful, Mind

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• There is a warning here for true pilgrims. Beware of the talker, but also be careful not to judge too quickly those whom God has blessed with both genuine grace and a fluency to speak of divine mercy in ways more eloquent than others. The proof is in the life-not a perfect life, but a life that both delights in divine truth and magnifies God, the only giver of the sovereign grace that always produces the truly fruitful, fragrant life.

  John Bunyan

  Blessed, Perfect, Judging

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• The mother is the early care giver and primary source of identification for all children.... A daughter continues to identify with the mother

  Nancy Chodorow

  Daughter, Mother, Children

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• The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to him - it cannot fail

  Walt Whitman

  Failing

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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

  Ovid

  Acceptable

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• Money demoralizes even the giver.

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

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• I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Children, Home, Happy Life

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• 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

  Gratitude, Pride, Benefits

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• 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

  Men, Credit, Favors

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  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

  Wine, Imagination, Bed

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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• God is the utterly loving giver. God doesn't just love. God is love.

  Miroslav Volf

  God Love, God Is Love

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• 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.

  David Levithan

  Pairs, Lovers, Assumption

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.131, Macmillan

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• The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

  Ann Patchett

  Quality, Sincerity, Depends

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• 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

  Character, Law, Judging

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.337, Cambridge University Press

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• God is a creator, not a law giver.

  Norman Mailer

  Law, Creator

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• 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

  Eye, Hands, Seats

  J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 5-8”, p.586, Penguin

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• This song of mine
  Is a song of the vine
  To be sung by the glowing embers
  Of wayside inns,
  When the rain begins
  To darken the drear Novembers. and
  For the richest and best
  Is the wind of the West
  That grows by the Beautiful River;
  Whose sweet perfume
  Fills all the room
  With a bension on the giver. and
  When you ask one friend to dine,
  Give hime your best wine!
  When you ask two,
  The second best will do.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Song, Sweet

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

  Russell Simmons

  Inspirational, Karma

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