Gift Quotes

It's okay to fail 'cause there's no failure, you're just informing the richness of your experience, and that's - that's the greatest gift you can possibly give yourself.

~ Ben Foster

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

~ Brian Tracy

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

~ John Lennon

Family is a unique gift that needs to be appreciated and treasured, even when they're driving you crazy. As much as they make you mad, interrupt you, annoy you, curse at you, try to control you, these are the people who know you the best and who love you.

~ Jenna Morasca

Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.

~ Mary Oliver

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

~ Leo Buscaglia

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

~ Barbara De Angelis

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free.

~ Taraji P. Henson

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

~ Jean Anouilh

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

~ Mitt Romney

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

~ Jim Rohn

May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.

~ L. Lionel Kendrick

My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn't have needed sports.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

~ Pope Francis

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

~ Charles Dudley Warner

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

~ Pindar

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

~ William Tecumseh Sherman

Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ.

~ Monica Johnson

Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you.

~ Ryan Reynolds

What will you and I give for Christmas this year? Let us in our lives give to our Lord and Savior the gift of gratitude by living His teachings and following in His footsteps.

~ Thomas S. Monson

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

~ Amy Grant

My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!

~ Lucy Hale

Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.

~ Jon Katz

I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

~ M. Ward

The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, 'I can't think of anything to give you, but here's a new suitcase.' Afterward, I was like, 'What were you thinking, idiot?'

~ Jensen Ackles

I would like to go back and spend a Christmas with my family and myself when I was five years old and just see what that dynamic would be like. Observe it. I think it would be a magical gift.

~ Sharon Lawrence

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

~ Fred Melamed

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

~ William Baldwin

I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.

~ Nicole Scherzinger

Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born smarter than the rest of us. Whether we like it or not, Mother Nature does not dole these characteristics out evenly.

~ Simon Sinek

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

~ Grace Jones

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.

~ Black Elk

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

~ Melissa Rosenberg

Am I a trance medium? No. Have I got a gift psychically? Absolutely not. But I believe in the survival of consciousness after death.

~ Dan Aykroyd

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

~ Martin Luther

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

~ Miles Davis

I think all music is a gift from God.

~ Pharrell Williams