Gift Quotes: Inspiring Words on Generosity and Giving

"Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it"

Barbara Coloroso, Author

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

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

Virginia Woolf, Author

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

"A gift in season is a double favor to the needy"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

"A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen"

Diane Johnson, Novelist

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"Conceit is God's gift to little men"

Bruce Barton, Author

"Each day provides its own gifts"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness"

Richard Bach, Novelist

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

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do"

Gian Carlo Menotti, Composer

"Gifts make slaves"

Levi Strauss, Businessman

"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless"

Sophocles, Author

"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good"

Sophocles, Author

"Now as of old the gods give men all good things, excepting only those that are baneful and injurious and useless. These, now as of old, are not gifts of the gods: men stumble into them themselves because of their own blindness and folly"

Democritus, Philosopher

"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

"I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life"

Anatole France, Novelist

"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Poet

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work"

Emile Zola, Novelist

"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"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth"

Barry White, Musician

"My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"I want to give as many Canadians the opportunity to be successful and if we can use their athletic gifts to get them a free degree or a free diploma across the border then I guess I'm doing my job"

Donovan Bailey, Athlete

"Without natural gifts technical rules are useless"

Quintilian, Educator

"I also believe my musical abilities are a true gift from God"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

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