Gift Quotes

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.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

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.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

A lot of the players are not involved with any NHL team, so to play and travel around with the Oldtimers' it's a kind of gift that the players really appreciate.

I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

Every problem has a gift for you in its hands.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

Come Christmas Eve, we usually go to my mom and dad's. Everybody brings one gift and then we play that game when we all steal it from each other. Some are really cool, others are useful and some are a bit out there.

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.