Top 100 Best Gifts Quotes
#1. The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
Sarah Dessen
#2. One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.
Joyce Meyer
#3. Kindness is one of the best gifts you can bestow ... We know that inherently that feels great.
Joe Rogan
#4. One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.
Carrie Ann Inaba
#7. The best gifts to give: To your friend, loyalty; To your enemy, forgiveness; To your boss, service; To a child, a good example; To your parents, gratitude and devotion; To your mate, love and faithfulness; To all men and women, charity.
Oren Arnold
#8. The best gifts anyone can give to themselves are good health habits.
Ellen J. Barrier
#9. Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.
Thomas Hughes
#10. I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.
Alex Ebert
#11. Sometimes the best gifts are the ones you can't get on your own.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. The best gifts in life are the memories of love that we have given away.
Debasish Mridha
#13. Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.
Thomas Hughes
#14. I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.
Ryan Reynolds
#15. A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.
Mary Cholmondeley
#16. Beginning and committing to a dream interpretation practice is one of the best gifts anyone can give themselves. This is truly the greatest guidance anyone could ask for.
Teresa DeCicco
#17. The best gifts one can give to someone are not things, the best ones to offer are a little Time, Love, Care and Respect.
Venkat Desireddy
#20. Often the best gifts we can give each other cost nothing.
Russ Ramsey
#21. How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.
Dan Miller
#22. You begin to cry and writhe and yell and then to keep on crying; and finally, grief ends up giving you the two best gifts: softness and illumination. Every
Anne Lamott
#24. The best gifts of Christmas cannot be found beneath a tree.
Judy Dawn
#25. Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
Judy Blume
#26. The best gifts are those we not only cherish but put to use.
Les Brown
#27. The best gifts are never given, but claimed.
Warren Ellis
#28. My love can't be purchased ... Best gifts have been well-thought-out surprises.
Nina Dobrev
#29. Sometimes the best gifts aren't convenient at the time.
Regina Jennings
#30. So if she was still alive after everything, what was she living for? To be terrified of life outside her front door? To hide behind a computer screen and miss out on the best gifts she'd been given?
Lenora Worth
#31. My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives. I got famous, then I got cancer, and now I live to talk about it. Sometimes the best gifts come in the ugliest packages.
Fran Drescher
#32. I wake up to my three dogs and my wife in bed and the kids, and those are the best gifts that I have.
Mike Ness
#34. Our stories are our best gifts--treasure and share them!
Gail Kittleson
#35. Pure water is the best gifts a man can bring.
But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
... beer is good enough for me.
Charles Neaves, Lord Neaves
#36. I believe books are life's best gifts, as they allow us to venture into worlds we never thought existed. Giving us a chance to be someone different, giving us the chance to dawdle in the words - And feel free!
Anonymous
#37. I get really cool gifts, and I know this sounds really lame, but I think one of the best gifts I've ever received was the Easy Bake Oven when I was younger. When I was little, I loved to bake! I want to get one now so I can make weird mini desserts for people.
Ashley Benson
#38. I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you."
"More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, carnivorous bunny? Yes, most things fall in that category, I think.
William Ritter
#39. In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.
Julia Cameron
#40. Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.
Georges Rouault
#41. The legends on the tombstones are eventually worn away as the stone is eroded by rain and wind and centuries. Better to slip away quietly after having lived as fully as one can, doing the very best one can with the gifts one has been given.
Barbara Quick
#42. Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.
Charles Colson
#43. Would it not be well this Christmas to give first to the Lord, directly through obedience, sacrifice, and love, and then to give to him indirectly through gifts to friends and those in need as well as to our own? Should we do this, perhaps many of us would discover a new Christmas joy.
John Andreas Widtsoe
#44. In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he smiles at me, just a glancing, faint thing before he turns back to Tommy. I'm quite happy for that smile, because Dad told me once you should be grateful for the gifts that are the rarest.
Maggie Stiefvater
#45. God has given us all wonderful unique gifts and talents to use to glorify and celebrate Him.
Victoria Osteen
#46. The custom of giving presents on New Year's Day is as old as the time of the Romans, who attached superstitious importance to it, and thought the gifts brought them a lucky year.
P.H. Ditchfield
#47. Today is just another normal day full of miracles, gifts, and opportunities.
Robert Holden
#49. Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Katharine Hepburn
#50. I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.
Ze Frank
#51. MG was nearly mythical, other than my entries - no interaction with users on
the off chance one was a Fernoza on the troll. And today proved I couldn't take a stranger bearing gifts at face-value.
A.E.H. Veenman
#52. Because you know how to enjoy things. Because you don't deny yourself. Because you let yourself feel pleasure and want. And that's the kind of person who likes gifts. The kind of person who knows how to enjoy life.
Lauren Blakely
#53. Jack, I know I'm not perfect, but I'm really hoping you're not ready to give up on me yet. I don't have gifts or love letters or anything like you had. But what I can give you is my word, my promise, my vow to you. Which I will back up with actions, by the way.
J. Sterling
#54. We have an obligation to ourselves to foster the environment that allows for our self-actualization. Rather than my gifts serving me, I must serve them. I want to be a steward of the best aspects of my character and assist them in their fulfillment through proper discipline and habits.
Chris Matakas
#55. Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.
Edward R. Murrow
#56. The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.
Fred Rogers
#58. I had a weird one a few years ago when I woke up one night, went to the window and saw a girl sitting on the kerb across the road just staring at me. Freaky. We get nice gifts for the kids too. And I've had naughty things. Let's say objects.
Peter Andre
#59. Offended people still may experience miracles, words of utterance, strong preaching, and healing in their lives. But these are gifts of the Spirit, not fruits. We will be judged according to fruit, not gifting. A gift is given. Fruit is cultivated.
John Bevere
#60. In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.
Anderson Cooper
#61. The past has passed; the time for grace is now! Let's respond to the grace of this moment with the gifts of the Spirit active in our lives ...
Kimberly Hahn
#63. Dear heart, we embrace the song and the story and all our gifts because the world has such great need, and because the world exceedingly rejoices, and because there is no sadder thing than to leave this world having never really shown up.
Carrie Newcomer
#64. This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.
Maria Montessori
#65. Nature is always lavish of her gifts even to the most insignificant forms. The butterflies and moths are richly dowered in this respect.
Annie Besant
#66. Then she looked at the man on the tree and she smiled wryly. "They just aren't as interesting naked," she said. "It's the unwrapping that's half the fun. Like with gifts, and eggs.
Neil Gaiman
#68. Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
Anna Quindlen
#69. Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-earth ways that people could show their love for each other. If the love was not there in the beginning, but only the need, such gifts made love grow.
Dorothy Day
#70. My own dear mother was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble to ensure us keeping the faith.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#71. For every benefit conferred, God is to be praised in his gifts. Otherwise when the time of judgment comes, that man will be punished as an ingrate who cannot say to God: 'Your statutes were my song in the land of exile.'
Saint Bernard
#72. Like everything else, holiday gifts escalate. The presents get better and better until one year you decide you don't need anything else and start making donations to animal shelters. Even if you hate dogs and cats, they're somehow always the ones who benefit.
David Sedaris
#73. We won the lottery in life and life is such a beautiful, precious gift, and we have to savor it, because as far as we know, we are the only living things in the universe, so it is our duty to protect it.
Francesca Martinez
#74. Because we can expect future generations to be richer than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now so that future generations can have them later is like asking the poor to make gifts to the rich.
Julian Simon
#75. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.
Tim Cook
#76. There are different gifts and talents in each of us
Sunday Adelaja
#77. What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.
Robert E.Lee
#78. The best aspects of every vampire, with all of their gifts, what makes them really special is just an enhanced version of what they were when they were human.
Kristen Stewart
#80. It is not where you begin, or what gifts you begin with, but what you do with them that matters in the end.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#81. Don't force your gifts: if you are a rascal, live like one; if you are half honest, be half honest; if you are completely honest, live absolutely honestly.
Pierre Ceresole
#82. God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine.
Ernest Holmes
#83. We all have a one or more gifts inside of us, but a lot of the time we're too busy to unwrap that gift
Steven Aitchison
#84. Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
Neil Gaiman
#85. Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
Mariska Hargitay
#86. We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
Saint Ignatius
#87. There is only one real deprivation ... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton
#88. Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.
Saint Augustine
#89. Your experiences, past, gifts and abilities are tools for purposeful living. Harness them and destiny shows up!
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#90. All powers have two sides, the power to create and the power to destroy. We must recognize them both, but invest our gifts on the side of creation.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
#91. The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.
Ann Patchett
#92. Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#94. If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.
Joy Harjo
#95. 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
#96. The greatest joy is in giving; after all, God gave Christ for us.
Ashley Ormon
#97. Our weaknesses are divine gifts that when embraced will enable us to make our purposeful contribution to the whole, which is why we incarnated in the first place.
Andrew Schneider
#98. Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn
#100. Put on your lips success creeds every day. Never see yourself as an unworthy being, incapable of receiving good gifts from God.
Israelmore Ayivor