Gift Quotes

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

~ Prem Rawat

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

~ Arnold Palmer

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

~ Jim Rohn

Mammograms are really sort of a gift. You can either catch something early or count your lucky stars because nothing was discovered. Either way, you're ahead of the game.

~ Charlotte Ross

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

~ William Butler Yeats

The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within.

~ Yehudi Menuhin

A gift of truth is the gift of love.

~ David Icke

I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage.

~ John Ortberg

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.

~ Twyla Tharp

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

~ J. Maarten Troost

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win, and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

~ Tim Kaine

The greatest gift of all time is that you can make creation infectious because people spend less time being negative... If you log all the time with negativity in the while world, I wonder how much better the world would be if people sat down and did something positive. It spirals.

~ Skrillex

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

~ George Foreman

Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.

~ Aretha Franklin

Love the giver more than the gift.

~ Brigham Young

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

~ Nadine Gordimer

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

~ Bruce Barton

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

~ Thomas Fuller

When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.

~ Kajol

On Sept. 20, 2011, a year after I spoke with Rabanni, a couple of Taliban emissaries arrived at his Kabul fortress with a gift for his 71st birthday. It turned out not to be the truce offering they had claimed they were bringing: one of the Talibs had a bomb hidden in his turban.

~ Terry Glavin

The sexiest thing my girlfriend has ever done for me is when she planned three full days of events, meals, and surprises for my birthday. It was like one continuous gift.

~ Chris Wood

I'm an avid shoe fan. I got my first pair of Louboutins as a birthday gift from Jami Gertz.

~ Toks Olagundoye

I grew up in Queens, and part of my birthday gift, always, was a Saturday matinee of whatever hit musical there was. When I was three, I saw 'Oliver!'.

~ Lonny Price

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.

~ Joyce Meyer

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

~ Blaise Pascal

My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him.

~ Allyson Felix

Every year, my boys and I create new cool gift wrap paper. We hand paint the design and come up with interesting ways to wrap each gift.

~ Kelly Wearstler

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

~ Bill Cosby

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

~ Mary Mccarthy

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

~ T. D. Jakes

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.

~ Plautus

Beauty is the lover's gift.

~ William Congreve

I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I've worked hard at trying to look my best.

~ Catherine Zeta-Jones

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is a fragile gift.

~ Ovid

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

~ Alexis Carrel

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

~ Steve Harvey

My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

~ Sean Hannity

The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

~ Amanda Lindhout

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

~ Vince Vaughn