Gifts Quotes

Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.

Each day provides its own gifts.

One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.

I always try to give my songs as gifts.

It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.

I think we're all blessed with gifts and I was lucky I just found out what mine was early on and have planted that seed and tried to water it every day.

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.

Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.

Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Some people are born with the necessary gift, and some work hard to build on the few gifts they have.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.