Top 1200 Gift Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I was young and ambitious and had the gift of dancing. I tried out for different things and the gift opened doors for me.

The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.

I think I have a gift... but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

When you go down a dark alley and you feel that tingling across the back of your neck, that's not just a bad feeling, that's a biological gift from God - the Gift of Fear...when you ignore that gift - when you go down the dark alley and say, Y'know, I'm sure it'll be okay - that's when you find real pain.

The greatest gift you can give anyone is a gift of empowerment and love.

Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift.

Sharing truth is not the kind of gift that comes in wrapping paper - ripped open once and, there, you're done. No, this is a gift that must be unfolded.

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

I realised from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.

A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.

My father played baseball. That's what I know to do. That's my gift. God has given me the greatest gift. And that's what I love to do.

The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of possibility.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I consider my musical ability to be a gift from the Creator. It's not that I try to work hard or nothing like that, it's a gift, it was given to me, and I appreciate it.

God gives us a gift, but then that gift has to be worked.

A wise man once said, 'Every one of us is given the gift of life, and what a strange gift it is. If it is preserved jealously and selfishly, it impoverishes and saddens. But if it is spent for others, it enriches and beautifies.' My fellow Americans: We can debate policies and programs, but in the end what separates the two parties in this election campaign is whether we use the gift of life for others or only ourselves.

I realized from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

I think I have a gift, but I haven't really opened that gift yet and given it to myself.

The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

I have an extraordinary attention span. I manage to juggle two or three different ideas at the same time, and that's probably, if I have a gift, that's probably the best gift that's given me.

The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?

Human emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.

Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance.

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

Everything should be considered as a gift of God. When anything wrong comes to you and you think it is a gift, it won't stay with you. Do you know that? Try it sometime.

Your responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.

Breath is the finest gift of nature. Be grateful for this wonderful gift.

The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy.

Freedom is not our gift to the world it is God's gift to humanity.

Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.

My son, Rob....said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."

I have the gift of laughter. I can make people laugh at will. In good times and in bad. And that I don't question. It was a gift from God.

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

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.

I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends.

Longing, it may be, is the gift no other gift supplies.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

The greatest gift you can give someone is the gift of inspiration.

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

The gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life.

Do not ignore you gift. Your gift is the thing you do the absolute BEST with the LEAST amount of effort."~Steve Harvey

The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.

The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.

To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.

I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends

To be a musician is a great privilege but it is also a very great responsibility. One must think that to be a musician is a gift - a gift from Nature. There is no great merit in us except in loving this gift with respect and devotion and doing everything possible to honor that gift by work and more work. We must work with conviction and humility, searching for beauty, simplicity, and the Truth. And it is for us musicians to do all in our power for a better world. Music must carry the message of beauty, of love and of peace.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

Gratitude goes beyond the 'mine' and 'thine' and claims the truth that all of life is a pure gift. In the past I always thought of gratitude as a spontaneous response to the awareness of gifts received, but now I realize that gratitude can also be lived as a discipline. The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy.

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.

Jesus' sinless life was given as a gift to the world - the ultimate gift. Some would receive Him, and others wouldn't. Nonetheless, He continues to be our gift, and His life and death makes it possible for His children to receive eternal life with Him. That's a reason to give God glory.

The right to religious freedom is not a gift of the state or a gift of a group.

For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace.