gifts quotes

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Garth Brooks

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What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Jean Vanier

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I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

Bryan Clay

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Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.

Paulina Porizkova

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A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca Seneca The Elder

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Big girls need big diamonds.

Elizabeth Taylor

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Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Aeschylus

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My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

John Wozniak

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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Every day is a gift- even if it sucks.

Sherry Hochman

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Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.

Ovid

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Our gifts seem so small in comparison to God

Eberhard Arnold

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A gift blinds the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

Bible

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The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Loretta Young

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What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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What we share with another ceases to be our own.

Edgar Quinet

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It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.

Linda Blair

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The only gift is a portion of thyself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.

Peggy Hopkins Joyce

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Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

George Herbert

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One rose says more than the dozen

Wendy Craig

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In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.

William Randolph Hearst

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Presents, I often say, endear absents.

Charles Lamb

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He that parts with his property before his death prepares himself for much suffering.

Proverbs

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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Ed Miliband

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Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than by money.

Robert H. Jackson

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Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Frances Farmer

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Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

James Broughton

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More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

Edward Sapir

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It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life.

Teena Marie

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Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.

Erma Bombeck

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

Peggy Noonan

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Rose Kennedy

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Virginia Woolf

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Katharine Hepburn

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Freeman Dyson

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Jimmy Carter

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Antisthenes

He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

Jack Kroll

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Carrie P. Snow

I don't give any gifts to the rich.

Nicolas Sarkozy

I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.

Tommy Hilfiger

Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?

King Abdullah II

This is not an election where we hand out gifts. It is an election where we ask everyone to contribute more.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun.

James Lafferty

One of the best lessons I learned early is that not everything in life is about you. It is about service. If you want trips and excessive gifts, then don't get into public service.

Sean Hannity

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.

Terrence Howard

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

Johann Arndt

I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job.

Donovan Bailey

Some men throw their gifts away on a life of mediocrity, great men throw everything they have into their gifts and achieve a life of success.

Greg Werner

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare

To receive gifts is to lose freedom.

Sandi

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

Gottfried Reinhardt

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts--spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back -- length of life.

Rose Kennedy

Gifts make their way through stone walls.

Proverbs

Gifts dissolve rocks.

Proverbs

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Quintilian

We’re not clones we’re all born with different gifts. So let’s all celebrate being unique

Susan McCann

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi.

Medgar Evers

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get.

Alyssa Milano

There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee... This was all stuff that was previously known.

Robert Torricelli

Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie.

Wim Wenders

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

Peabo Bryson

When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know.

Al Roker

The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.

Robert Rainy

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

Peter Garrett

Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening.

Walter Pater

Our ministry is supported entirely by faith, through the missions gifts of readers who receive my messages every three weeks. We seldom mention money, and we never burden supporters.

David Wilkerson

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

Christie Hefner

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.

Allen Klein

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

Quintilian

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.

Adam Clarke

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Virgil

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

Walter Ulbricht

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

Gina Gershon

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Cheryl Crawford

One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

Ace Frehley

I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.

Michael W. Smith

We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.

Marilyn Hacker

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

Dean Koontz

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.

Carter G. Woodson

Let me go: take back thy gift: Why should a man desire in any way To vary from the kindly race of men, Or pass beyond the goal of ordinance Where 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

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’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus

Alfred Tennyson

Gifts make slaves.

Levi Strauss

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

George Lincoln Rockwell

Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.

Loretta Young

Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

Bea Arthur

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

John Owen

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

James E. Rogers

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

Caroline Kennedy

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Barbara Smith

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

Thomas Hughes

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

Charles Colson

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

Soleil Moon Frye

Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.

Conrad Burns