Gift Quotes

"Many of the critics today get airline tickets, hotel accommodation, bags, beautiful photographs, gifts and other expenses paid by the distributors, and then are supposed to write serious articles about the movie"

Wim Wenders, Director

"Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

"I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it"

Hazel Scott, Musician

"Not to discriminate every moment some passionate attitude in those about us, and in the very brilliancy of their gifts some tragic dividing on their ways, is, on this short day of frost and sun, to sleep before evening"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self"

Max Stirner, Philosopher

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

Jean Vanier, Philosopher

"A gift of truth is the gift of love"

David Icke, Athlete

"Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God"

Keith Thibodeaux, Musician

"I played Liddy Dole last year and met her as well. From the artful way she phrased it, I still don't know if she had actually seen me play her. She made it sound like it was good, but that's just a gift they have"

Ana Gasteyer, Comedian

"For the will and not the gift makes the giver"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"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"

Mary Manin Morrissey, Celebrity

"One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer"

Caroline Kennedy, Celebrity

"With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift"

Justin Guarini, Musician

"The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake"

Basil C. Hume

"How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?"

James Bovard, Author

"When Courtney's mother and I first separated I tried to be Disney Dad, showering her with gifts, trips and then I snapped out of it. You don't have to try to impress your kids. If they're not getting what they need from you, they will let you know"

Al Roker, Entertainer

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift"

Steve Prefontaine, Athlete

"The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest"

Sophocles, Author

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well"

Voltaire, Writer

"It was pretty extensive - we worked out 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 3 months, which I think is more than anybody in the Olympics. I thought well I don't need this, the girls need it, but it was a gift"

David Carradine, Actor

"What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?"

Cicero, Philosopher

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else"

Plato, Philosopher

"Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it"

Miles Davis, Musician

"A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have"

Ralph Marston, Writer

"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy"

George Foreman, Athlete

"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"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

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