Gift Quotes

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

~ Maria Shriver

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

~ Bradley Chicho

The Holy Spirit can be with you always and guide you back to Him, but in order to enjoy the benefits of this holy gift, you must truly receive it, and then you must use it in your life. How sad it would be to be given such a precious gift and then set it aside and never use it.

~ Margaret D. Nadauld

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

~ Wernher Von Braun

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

~ Alice Walker

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

~ Christina Aguilera

I actually have a pig collection in my cabin: all types of old wood hand-carved pigs that my mom started for me as a housewarming gift.

~ Johnny Iuzzini

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

~ Ernie Fletcher

In my opinion, education is the finest gift an individual can give a young person.

~ Donald Bren

Even when life challenges us, it's a gift beyond all measure.

~ Parker Palmer

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

~ Esther Williams

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

~ Joyce Meyer

I know a man who doesn't pay to have his trash taken out. How does he get rid of his trash? He gift wraps it, and puts in into an unlocked car.

~ Henny Youngman

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

~ Steve Harvey

Peace is our gift to each other.

~ Elie Wiesel

Peace is a gift that is embodied through the Holy Spirit through the acceptance of Christ.

~ Monica Johnson

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

~ Boris Pasternak

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

~ Tony Robbins

Inspiration is the greatest gift because it opens your life to many new possibilities. Each day becomes more meaningful, and your life is enhanced when your actions are guided by what inspires you.

~ Bernie Siegel

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

~ Ralph Marston

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You need to have a relationship with what you put inside you. I don't want to get all spiritual about this, but I believe our bodies are a gift, and to deface it is disrespectful.

~ Michael Moore

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

~ Charles Kingsley

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

~ Henry B. Eyring

Your anger is a gift.

~ Zack De La Rocha

Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

~ B. R. Hayden

Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

~ Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

It's almost a blessing when we meet people who naturally want to do the sort of things that are in high demand in society. What a gift to do that, as opposed to other people who would say, 'I want to be a novelist but actually I have to be an accountant.'

~ Alain De Botton

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

~ Alice Walker

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

~ Kwame Nkrumah

I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.

~ Suresh Raina

In Brazil, if you have a son, the first thing you give him is a football. That's the first gift - so my dad was no different.

~ Diego Costa

I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.

~ Cullen Bunn

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

~ Horace

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

~ David Letterman

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

~ Gilbert Parker