Gift Quotes

The gift my mother gave me was the gift of possibility. From an early age, she instilled in me a belief that I could do anything I wanted to do. It wasn't a matter of, 'Can I?' or 'Should I?' It was just, 'You can, you must, you will!' She wanted me to believe that anything was possible.

~ Maria Shriver

I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

~ Faith Prince

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

~ Richard Bach

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

~ Thornton Wilder

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.

~ George Takei

Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.

~ Dale Archer

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

~ James Clavell

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

~ Desmond Tutu

Estate planning is an important and everlasting gift you can give your family. And setting up a smooth inheritance isn't as hard as you might think.

~ Suze Orman

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

I think architecture has to be a gift.

~ Jean Nouvel

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

~ Kristin Chenoweth

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

~ Andie Macdowell

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

~ Franka Potente

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

~ Minna Antrim

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

~ Steve Prefontaine

An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.

~ Itzhak Perlman

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It's definitely a gift and for which I'm thankful.

~ Kevin Hart

I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift.

~ Tavi Gevinson

My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

~ Aaron Ruell

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

~ Meryl Streep

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

~ Voltaire

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

~ Leo Buscaglia

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

~ William Arthur Ward

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.

~ Bethany Hamilton

We are all gifted, but we have to discover the gift, uncover the gift, nurture and develop the gift and use it for the Glory of God and for the liberation struggle of our people.

~ Louis Farrakhan

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

~ Aretha Franklin

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.

~ Elie Wiesel

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

~ Lebron James

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

~ Edith Stein

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

~ Morgan Freeman

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

~ Marian Anderson

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

~ Aeschylus

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

~ Truman Capote

A thick skin is a gift from God.

~ Konrad Adenauer

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

~ Sophocles

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

~ Albert Einstein

What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.

~ Ezra Taft Benson