Gift Quotes

What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

That's the goal, to survive your gift.

The earth is a tremendous gift. There is nothing else like it in the known universe. I want to leave it the way I found it.

Tomorrow is no man's gift.

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it.

If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

When you're young, you think you can do anything, and that was really a gift. That's why I can never understand someone telling me 'no' today. 'No' just isn't an option.

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.

I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift.

I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

I think all music is a gift from God.

As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift.

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

The children have been a wonderful gift to me, and I'm thankful to have once again seen our world through their eyes. They restore my faith in the family's future.