Gift Quotes

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play.

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.

My season 2 'Good Wife' wrap gift was this deluxe package of Mortal Kombat. I played it for, like, two weeks straight.

Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.

I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.

John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

I've learned one important thing about God's gifts - what we do with them is our gift to Him.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong.

This is a gift. This is a gift from God. It's really like the old Biblical passage that talks about your body being a temple. That's not to say that I've never done anything but I've never abused myself. Never gone over the top for a long period of time.

It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training.

Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

I was always told I was special. And I was also assured that I had a gift and a purpose.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

Creative genius is a divinely bestowed gift which is the coronation of the few.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.