Gifts Quotes

The best gifts anyone can give to themselves are good health habits.

~ Ellen J. Barrier

I thought... I thought you might... Help you? By my grove, I am helping you. You're not starving anymore, are you? <…> You had a dry night's sleep, too, and you're no longer coughing your liver and lights out. Some might count those as mighty gifts indeed.

~ Tad Williams

Only a prostitute will trade her valuables for money, so you shouldn't sell your God given ideas and talents for money, because you don't own it in any way but should be by a divine authority.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Real humility is not about denying the gifts you are offered, it is accepting them.

~ Alan Cohen

In reverent pauses, when we slow down and think about the gift of life, we may briefly touch humility.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.

~ Henry Clay

Just remember to say THANK YOU sometimes, for all of these everyday extraordinary gifts.

~ Scott Stabile

And now in my tenderness of remembering it all again, I think I am still there with him too. I am there with all the others, most of them gone but some who are still here, who gave me love and called forth love from me. When I number them over, I am surprised how many there are. And so I have to say that another of the golden threads is gratitude.I was grateful because I knew, even in my fear and grief, that my life had been filled with gifts.

~ Wendell Berry

Expecting gratitude for a gift is... unseemly.

~ Jack Caldwell

Life wants you to have gratitude for the gift of living. Treasure every second.

~ Bryant Mcgill

One of the best gifts you can give to someone, is a wider perspective. It's also one of the best gifts you can receive. So if you have given someone a wider perspective, don't feel bad about it (about taking their blindfolds off and having to watch them cringe in the newfound sunlight); I know it's hard, but you're doing them a lasting favor. And a wider perspective can be difficult for you yourself to accept, in the beginning (during the time that you squint while the sunlight stings your own eyes), but later you'll find yourself coming back to it, even if you abandoned it as something worthless; you'll look for it, one day. Or it will grow on you. Perspective.

~ C. Joybell C.

Empowerment comes from self-realization and recognition of our internal gifts, which we already have.

~ Bryant Mcgill

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount one is loved.

~ Todd Stocker

...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

~ James Lee Burke

I wish but to share your gifts as a young boy on his birthday would excitedly rip open his packages to the view of others.

~ Dan Groat

I know how you feel. But people can't surpass their true design. Our talents, our gifts. All programmed into us from the start. I know this because since birth... I was made to destroy.

~ Charles Lee

The best gifts one can give to someone are not things, the best ones to offer are a little Time, Love, Care and Respect.

~ Venkat Desireddy

Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change who we are and who we want to be.

~ Harley King

Friendship is Divine; think anything, get everything. (10 Alone; Vikrmn)

~ Vikrmn

Borrow my eyes so you may see your greatness and recognize the gifts that you were uniquely placed on this planet to learn from, to share, and to teach.

~ Monika Zands

Gift giving is a true art.1. You need to understand the person to whom you intend to give the gift.2. You need to know what they truly want.3. You must be able to give it to them.Anything less is a symptom of varying degrees, on your part, of ignorance, distance, or i

~ Vera Nazarian

The greatest gifts are those that say, “I know you”.

~ Fennel Hudson

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the very places where society mistakenly says life stores its scraps. And I am constantly amazed that in the treasure trove that surrounds me, I stand in the company of so few.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I would much prefer to enlarge your life by giving you the gift of my life, rather than gifting your life to material obesity with frivolous trinkets.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Your Temporary Santa, He says presents aren't important, but I think they are- not because of how much they cost, but for the opportunity they provide to say 'I understand you.

~ David Levithan

Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You have divine abilities for a great mission.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself.Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe them...My wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners...It is with all these qualities that we must stand before God and intervene on behalf of those who do not have them, as though clothed with someone else's garment...But even before men we must, with the same love, render them service against their detractors and those who are violent toward them; for this is what Christ did for us.

~ Martin Luther

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that, it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

~ Pablo Casals

The function of the educator is to discover in each individual child the gifts implanted in her by Almighty God and to develop and dedicate them to His service.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

~ Idries Shah

When a blind man says, 'God is good,' this should be an eye-opener to those who can see.

~ Anthony Liccione

If I am not touching a life, I am not touching life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.

~ Milan Kundera

Envy comes from people’s ignorance of, or lack of belief, in their own gifts.

~ Jean Vanier

You are amazing person with unique talents. Have faith in your abilities.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita