Gift Quotes

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

When I grew older and awkward, when my parents divorced and life had gone all to hell, Demetrie stood me at the wardrobe mirror and told me over and over, 'You are beautiful. You are smart. You are important.' It was an incredible gift to give a child who thinks nothing of herself.

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.

That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.

I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done. I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.

I have never planned anything. I have been doing this job for over 50 years. I have been paid to work with some wonderful people and it has been a huge gift, to me.

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.

I was born with the gift.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore, a duty. It should be offered as a gift.