Top 1200 Greatest Gifts Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Rumi is perhaps the greatest mystical poet who ever lived, one of the greatest poets of the Persian language. He was able to express practically all aspects of the spiritual life and our existential situation in the world today as human beings in beautiful Persian poetry.

Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others.

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

The greatest maxim of all is that children should be brought up as simply and in as domestic a way as possible, and that (not interfering with their lessons) they should be as much as possible with their parents, and learn to place the greatest confidence in them in all things.

The ability and inclination to use physical strength is no indication of bravery or tenacity to life. The greatest cowards are often the greatest bullies. Nothing is cheaper and more common than physical bravery.

Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.

The greatest leader is not someone who is the only leader. The greatest leader is one who inspires others to be leaders.

Be ready at all times for the gifts of God, and always for new ones.

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

A Warrior of the Light does not accept gifts from his enemy.

The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

I view the experiences that I have had - both the tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts.

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

Sex is one of God's gifts, just use it right.

I try to shop online. All my food, Christmas gifts, everything.

God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.

I never think about gifts. It's enough to have my family present.

The West Wing and The Outsiders are the gifts that keep on giving.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

The best gifts are those we not only cherish but put to use.

Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Use the noble gifts which God has given you!

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.

For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

A woman's gifts will make room for her.

One of the biggest gifts you can give the world is a healed life.

My husband, Howard Stern, is very good at giving gifts.

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

Playing in front of the greatest fans in the NFL is easily the greatest honor that I've had in my 11-year career. I hope I was able to make you guys proud in the way that I was always proud when I told people boldly that 'I am a Cleveland Brown.'

I've had the fame and the joy of getting laughter - those are gifts.

Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you have. This can turn your greatest frustration into your greatest potential innovation. If you'll do your part, God will begin to do what only He can do: He'll make your box bigger.

Letting people share their gifts and strengths is real love.

'The Golden Compass' became a bad experience because the studio didn't have faith in the strength of the ideas of the novel, which is ironic because it's one of the greatest fantasy novels ever written, if not the greatest, and they took the religion out of it and tried to turn it into a popcorn movie.

You can't bullet-point Trump's political beliefs because he doesn't have them. He's got various things he wants, needs, wants to accomplish, based on circumstances at the moment, not based on a philosophy. Now, there's a foundation. The foundation for Donald Trump is "Make America Great Again." It's the greatest place on earth and we're gonna build it back up and it's gonna be the greatest no matter what, compared to whoever, it's gonna be the greatest. So, I mean, you can say that. But that's not a political philosophy. That's an objective or a series of goals.

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed through fire. The greatest poets have "learned in suffering what they taught in song." In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwards wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for the Pilgrim's Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make pre-eminent use of a person, He put them in the fire.

Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

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

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

Getting up early is one of the gifts I give myself.

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

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

Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.

The gifts of bad men bring no good with them.

Life is not a gift to be received, but rather, infinite gifts that we can give.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all nations would consent to abolish air bombardment . . . that would mean the greatest possible release from fear.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.

Gratitude flows from the recognition that who we are and what we have are gifts to be received and shared.

We don't have to be perfect to experience the blessings and gifts of our Heavenly Father.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.