Gifts Quotes

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

~ Charles Dickens

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

~ David Nicholls

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.

~ Mandy Hale

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

~ Sarah Dessen

The beauty and gift of truth, is that it is not dependent upon your belief in order to remain true

~ A. Dragonblood

Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. It’s just not courteous to not use or wear something that somebody’s given you as a well-meaning gift. It goes against Southern ways, not that God is Southern by any stretch of the imagination, but I do think He expects us to be an example for the rest of the country, as far as manners go.

~ Vicki Covington

Ingratitude to God does not rely only on our refusal to give the verbal thanksgiving due to Him, but also recides in our inability to appreciate his gifts and potentials in us by leaving them untapped.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We are what we.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

Anything that comes your way by force was not meant for you. Everything that locates you on it's own was yours and will be yours forever.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Wise people offer their wisdom for free and accept all gifts, for they know that the universe is not giving them gifts, but tools they will need on their road to wisdom.

~ Charbel Tadros

Please don't be overly sober with your precious wings, it's your addiction to freedom that makes me think that i too can defy gravity.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.

~ Steve Maraboli

There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something, Gifted people ARE that something.

~ Steve Maraboli

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When God takes out the trash, don't go digging back through it. Trust Him.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.

~ Laurie R. King

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands” (Richard Bach). And if not every problem, then just about every one. Even spectacular sunsets are not possible without cloudy skies. Troubles bring a gift for those who choose to look. And since I can't avoid my problems, why waste them? I should look for the gift. My life will be far, far richer for finding it.

~ Steve Goodier

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

~ Alfred Tennyson

Let me go: take back thy gift:Why should a man desire in any wayTo vary from the kindly race of men,Or pass beyond the goal of ordinanceWhere all should pause, as is most meet for all?...Why wilt thou ever scare me with thy tears,And make me tremble lest a saying learnt,In days far-off, on that dark earth, be true?‘The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.’- Tithonus

~ Alfred Tennyson

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

~ Ingrid Betancourt

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst things that have ever happened to us.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake.

~ Roman Payne

We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all.

~ William Wilberforce

Don’t be silent on your talent!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your gifts, talents, and calling will help you to know what you must do.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is your gifting and talents that dictates to you what to do.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There is a price for everything in life. Even what you receive freely has already been paid for by someone.

~ Sunday Adelaja

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.

~ Jaachynma N.e. Agu

God has from the beginning, placed in us all the necessary gifts, abilities and talents to have success

~ Sunday Adelaja

Passion is a deep love for sacred activity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Each one of us is endowed with specific sacred-skill.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

With a decision and a defined purpose, you can begin work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Don't believe that the day is without good. The very fact that you are consciously here today is a blessing of itself. Every breath you breathe, step you take, day you live is the greatest gift you can ever receive. Don't let those gifts fall away unappreciated. Live with joy in every moment.

~ Avina Celeste

Each person has a sacred potential for a specific purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are a beautiful creation and were made like no one else. Your uniqueness is a pleasant gift you can give to the world if you are willing to define and live that out. And, it is the best gift you will ever give yourself.

~ Cynthia Mendenhall