Giver And Taker Quotes & Sayings

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker. — Sylvester Stallone

Ah, drink again This river that is the taker-away of pain, And the giver-back of beauty! In these cool waves What can be lost?
Only the sorry cost Of the lovely thing, ah, never the thing itself! The level flood that laves The hot brow And the stiff shoulder Is at our temples now. Gone is the fever, But not into the river; Melted the frozen pride, But the tranquil tide Runs never the warmer for this, Never the colder. Immerse the dream. Drench the kiss. Dip the song in the stream. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

God is the giver of life. And He's also the taker. If He spared your life, then He must have something left for you to do. — Jody Hedlund

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

God is not a taker. God is a giver. — Louie Giglio

If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: He could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: He could chop it down. Whoever owns land has thus assumed, whether he knows it or not, the divine functions of creating and destroying plants. — Aldo Leopold

Success honors the giver, and the taker is cheated by demise. — T.F. Hodge

Self-love is an incredible equalizer. When self love is running the show, the over giver learns to honor their own yes's and no's. In the same way the over taker learns to honor another person's yes's and no's. — Christina Marie

married a giver, not a taker. — Kim Holden

In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver. — Robert Preston

No matter the border, the Mekong has been an indiscriminate giver and taker of life in Southeast Asia for thousands of years. It's a paradox like civilization's other great rivers - be it the Nile, Indus, Euphrates, Ganges or China's Sorrow the Huang He - for without its waters life is a daily struggle for survival; yet with its waters life is a daily bet that natural disasters and diseases will visit someone else's village, because it's not if, but when it's going to happen that's the relevant question. — Tucker Elliot

Drugs rob every person, man, woman, and child of their beauty. Drugs turn people into animals who can only respond to instincts. Drugs are so powerful they eradicate the God in both the taker and the giver. — Sister Souljah

HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit.
LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her.
HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman. — Juliette Gordon Low

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