Gift Quotes

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.

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

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

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.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

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.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

It is my fondest wish that the gift of song that God has given me will flow from my soul to yours and help ease any burden that might weigh upon you.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way.

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal.

I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.