Gift Quotes

Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Freedom is such a gift.

I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.

Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

I would hope it's better, but I'm actually acknowledging now that I want to explore all these levels from a whisper to a scream with this gift I've been given.

I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

I guess maybe another gift I have is a great work ethic.

Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.

My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.

What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.

My mom brought me up to believe that my talent is a gift and a blessing.

You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.