Gifts Quotes

You may abuse your energy when you do not know what it is meant to help you carry. An undiscovered self is an easy way to rob the world of leadership impacts.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Look to yourself, you've got a gold mine in you that must be exploited. Don’t exchange yourself for fear to trade on silver platter. You brought a load of gifts to the world, use them and die empty!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You ought to recognise your special talent, for your specific purpose.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Until I was left with nothing but life and books, I realised these two gracious gifts, where enough for me to exist.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Never look down upon yourself. You are special with special gift.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If you want to be happy you have to study people who are happy. You have to hang out with people that are happy. Life won't go in the direction you want, by simply trying to stay positive in a life you're not happy with. You have to know what you want and why you truly want it so badly. When you figure that out then you need to change your current identity, in order to fit the type of person you envision would make those dreams come true. Happiness is not reliant on the actions or inactions of other people. It is your “courage in motion” toward your dreams.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Loving someone doesn't mean you have to bow down to them or drop everything and run to their relentless calls. They must understand and love you enough to give you the respect that you deserve. Loving someone doesn't mean you have to shower them with gifts all the time. Give them your honesty, hope, joy, and encouragement on a daily basis.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

If you're thinking, 'Great! I just need to be a superhero to fight perfectionism,' I understand. Courage, compassion, and connection seem like big, lofty ideals. But in reality, they are daily practices that, when exercised enough, become these incredible gifts in our lives. And the good news is that our vulnerabilities are what force us to call upon these amazing tools. Because we're human and so beautifully imperfect, we get to practice using our tools on a daily basis. In this way, courage, compassion, and connection become gifts - the gifts of imperfection.

~ Brené Brown

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What you do with ease is your passion.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Explore your special skills.

~ Laillah Gifty Akita

Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not waste your life, in search for a job.Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Together, we can serve humanity with our unique passions, gifts and abilities.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love your work and rejoice in all your accomplishments.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It feels great to do what you love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What drives your passion?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must fall in love with your job, over and over again, to own it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Identify your divine gift and use it to serve humanity.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Find your passion and live your best life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Brightly burning passion is the releasing of your essence, your specialness and your gifts to the world.

~ Bryant Mcgill

To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air. This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who cannot distinguish the core of the story from the ornamental and unwise additions of the unintelligently devout.

~ H.g. Wells

Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Success is a steadily progress.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Focus on your strength and maximum its potential.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Find your niche and occupy it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don’t send a thank-you note, repay them with sexual activity. If the book is rare or by your favorite author or one you didn't know about, reward them with the most perverted sex act you can think of. Otherwise, you can just make out.

~ John Waters

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

~ Ann Voskamp

We find happiness doing what we love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In the Light of your Wisdom, You Shine. In the Midst of your Truth, Your Faith is Evident. From inside your Spirit, You are Love.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

I Love You! Three words that mean nothing if not followed through with actions. It seems to be more relevant in the terms of showing verses saying. Anyone can say it, because there are different kinds of love. But, few are willing to actually show it. Saying is one thing. Living proof is another.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

If you’re giving to get, all you’ll receive is disappointment. But if you’re giving to give, all you’ll receive is joy.

~ Toni Sorenson

Love is the greatest gift, we can give to one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If have the gift of prophesy, all wisdom and knowledge and have no love, I have failed to manifest my true soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Children are a gift from God.

~ Anonymous

So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. However, there is one gift that trumps all other talents—being an excellent parent. If you can successfully raise a child in this day in age to have integrity then you have left a legacy that future generations will benefit from.

~ Shannon L. Alder