Gift Quotes

There was a combination of not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but also really not wanting to be stuck in Lord of the Rings for the rest of my life, and being desperate to kind of make sure that I could do something else with my life.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.

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.

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.

I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.

He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.

I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.

I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.

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.

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.

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.