Gift Quotes: Inspiring Words on Generosity and Giving (Page 3)

"Beauty is a fragile gift"

Ovid, Poet

"Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!"

"Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons"

John Ruskin, Writer

"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts"

Virgil, Writer

"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth"

Horace, Poet

"Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

"To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas"

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right"

William Butler Yeats, Poet

"I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift"

Twyla Tharp, Dancer

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present"

Joan Rivers, Comedian

"The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work"

Donna Tartt, Novelist

"Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship"

Buddha, Leader

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?""

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"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"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"A friend is a gift you give yourself"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

"I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Today riches and honours have been lavished on me, but one gift has been lacking, the most important one of all, the only one that matters, the gift of youth"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather"

Washington Irving, Writer

"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain"

Christopher Morley, Author

"The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"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"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"God gave me the gift to be able to play instruments and I have to play"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever"

Jimmy Carter, President

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