Gift Quotes

If you wake up today, it's on purpose, it's a gift.

~ Lacey Sturm

Taken together, it’s almost a sure sign. The letters float off the page when you read, right? That’s because your mind is hardwired for ancient Greek. And the ADHD-you’re impulsive, can’t sit still in the classroom. That’s your battlefield reflexes. In a real fight, they’d keep you alive. As for the attention problems, that’s because you see too much, Percy, not too little. Your senses are better than a regular mortal’s.

~ Rick Riordan

Each day is God’s gift of a fresh unspoiled opportunity to live according to His priorities.

~ Elizabeth George

Any fool that had once helped you will someday make known to everyone that you were once a needy. No matter how broke you are, don't ever be quick to ask for help, let it be voluntary, and you must also learn to feign repudiation, no matter how valuable the offer.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy.

~ Rainbow Rowell

You are the best gift that I receive from God,and you are the Best reason to live in this world.I love you

~ Jervin Balmediano

Buy what you love. Love those who can't be bought. Take in all the day has to offer. Give it all away.

~ Jodi Hills

My existence is the only gift I have left to give, but it will have to do.

~ Susan Beth Pfeffer

Pain is a horribly wonderful gift.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Life is a gift and it is what you make it. Yet, it does have many twist and turns, many lows as well as high moments. Keep the fire of hope alive, even in the darkest of time.

~ Eveth N Colley

The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones, possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the wisest. O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

~ O. Henry

Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaniously.

~ Paulo Coelho

When you ignore your gift, you runaway from your purpose.

~ Turcois Ominek

Every damn breath hurt like hell, but I kept Breathing too. I told myself it would be a privilege to breathe through pain like that for the rest of my life - just knowing each breath was a gift.

~ Rachel Van Dyken

The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.

~ Francine Rivers

How are you going to spend your day today? The key word being spend. Our time is one of the most precious gifts in our lives. Once today is over, that's it. Think about how you really want to spend your day. Tomorrow, today will be history. It's your life, your history. How do you want to write the history of your life today…?

~ James A. Murphy

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

~ Michael Marshall Smith

A man has a very insecure tenure of a property which another can carry away with his eyes. A few months reduced me to the cruel necessity either of destroying my machine, or of giving it to the public. To destroy it, I could not think of; to give up that for which I had laboured so long, was cruel. I had no patent, nor the means of purchasing one. In preference to destroying, I gave it to the public.[On his inability to keep for himself a profitable income from his invention of the Spinning Mule.]

~ Samuel Crompton

With eye and hand and breath and will.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

Sometimes life is your opponent and just showing up is a victory.

~ Johna Passaro

True love is something, so very true and very rare to find. So, if you ever find such a thing. Treat it as if it were some treasure. Because, once you find such a thing and set free; it will not ever return. So, treat it as if its your most precious gift....

~ Jynnette L. Miller

We just have to live each new day as if it’s a precious gift. When I wake up in the morning I like to think that this day will be better than any day I’ve ever lived.

~ J.e.b. Spredemann

It is necessary for us to have an imperfect freedom so that we can give ... if we cannot give anything to God, we do not have a share in his Spirit, who by his very nature is Gift.

~ Wilfrid Stinissen

Fear is contagious. Fortunately, so is courage. Learning to become fearless will touch everyone around you, and best of all, you'll find it's a gift that keeps on giving.

~ Michelle Aguilar

Love is the most powerful gift we have to offer.

~ Kristi Bowman

We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

[A dog is] a bundle of pure love, gift-wrapped in fur.

~ Andrea Lochen

The best gift you can give today is the gift of LOVE!

~ Colishia S. Benjamin

Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It's a part of your life that you will never get back.

~ Gloria Tesch

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.

~ Bill Hybels

Life is a gift and a challenge.

~ Jay Payleitner

You are the gift that only you would have to give.

~ Silvia Hartmann

The world knows nothing of you. That is my gift to you. You are no one.

~ Mark Allen Smith

I have a friend who is very successful in business, and his motto is, 'Don't do what you can do. Do what only you can do.' First of all, you have to know what your specific, unique gift is and then you do that... every actor does that but every once in a while an actor plays a part that only they can play.

~ Rob Lowe

The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.

~ Steven Cojocaru

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

~ Elie Wiesel

The lumpiness of 'The Good Lie's progression - from infancy to adulthood, and from ethnic horror to gentle social comedy to a heroic gift of freedom - proclaims the film's respect for facts and truths that can't be squeezed into a smooth narrative.

~ Richard Corliss

Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.

~ Chris Stapleton

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

~ Smokey Robinson

My humor is my creativity, and my skepticism is a gift.

~ J. Tillman