Gift Quotes

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.

For those of us who have lost loved ones in their prime - as I did when my father and other relatives succumbed - even one of those years would have been a precious gift.

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

My father was a very good craftsman. He made furniture, he made silverware and he had an incredible gift in terms of how you can make something yourself.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Peace is our gift to each other.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

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

What I work hard at doing is staying on a path of being kind and showing and proving that I'm a good person to society. That's hard. The talent, that's a gift. I just came here like that.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.

When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.