Precious Gift Quotes Page 2

It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.

When we spend our lives waiting until we're perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on our gifts, those unique contributions that only we can make.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man;

with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man.

Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold.

It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything.

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat.

A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift.

..and never waste such an opportunity.

True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included.

Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.

As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts.

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day.

It's their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

Time is a very precious gift- so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment.

It is great to love life. Accept life as a precious gift from the hand of God and strive to make the most of it.

We are always too busy for our children;

we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Character is the most precious gift of education.

Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

God gave us the gift of life. It is the most precious gift ever. To be unarmed is to be helpless to protect that gift; that is outright irresponsible.

Every day, we are given countless opportunities to offer our gifts to those at work, in our families, our relationships.... If you give less than what you are, you dishonor the gift of your own precious life.

Our mind is the most valuable possession that we have.

The quality of our lives is, and will be, a reflection of how well we develop, train, and utilize this precious gift.

I cherish the fantasy, even the hope, of adventures in other realms to come.

But how can we choke out that most precious of all gifts, life, with the rope of religion around our necks? It chokes out freedom with dogma. It pinions us to the stake of superstition.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

Our lives are like the talents in the parable of the three stewards.

It is something that has been given to us for the time being and we have the opportunity and privilege of doing our best with this precious gift.

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

I need to somehow peel away the dullness and heighten my sensitivity and alertness. I need to start sucking the juice out of every single moment of the most precious gift ever to be had, "my life!"

We all come unique packages with strength and weakness, and somewhere there is a precious gift in all of us

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.

I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Water is at the center of every chemical reaction, and therefore should be the earths most precious gift.

Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man.

Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.

God's treasury where He keeps His children's gifts will be like many a mother's store of relics of her children, full of things of no value to others, but precious in His eyes for the love's sake that was in them.

Those gifts are ever more precious which the giver has made precious.

Life's most precious gift is uncertainty.

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

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