Gift Quotes

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Free is really, you know, the gift of Silicon Valley to the world. It's an economic force, it's a technical force. It's a deflationary force, if not handled right. It is abundance, as opposed to scarcity.

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit.

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

Songwriting is my gift from God.

Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

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.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift.

Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.

I'm unable to ignore the gift that God gave me, so I'm going to sing.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.