Top 100 Gift Present Quotes
#1. If we are meant to be gifts to one another, living in the past negates the present we need to be.
T.F. Hodge
#2. The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.
Robert Holden
#3. My past takes no hostages, no prisoners. I've let go of yesterday and am free to receive the beautiful gift of the present.
Jaeda DeWalt
#5. It isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present
Andy Andrews
#6. The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.
Amy Smart
#7. There's no time like the present,
No present like time.
And life can be over in the space of a rhyme.
There's no gift like friendship
And no love like mine.
Give me your love to treasure through time.
Georgia Byng
#8. If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
Charles M. Schulz
#9. You don't need to be perfect in your life, but always be present in it. The present is the most perfect gift you can have.
Alison G. Bailey
#10. The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.
Lisa Unger
#11. The best gift you can give, besides your unconditional love, is to be strong for them when they are present and stronger for yourself when they are not!
David H. Cooke
#12. The gift of life is present at every moment - even moments that seem insignificant or unpleasant.
Bryant McGill
#13. Under the present conditions, everything conspires to obscure the basic movement that tends to restore wealth to its function, to gift-giving, to squandering without reciprocation.
Georges Bataille
#15. I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.
Kyle Dunnigan
#16. He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.
Laura Kelly
#17. A whole race perpetually in pursuit of the rainbow's end, never honest, nor kind, nor happy now, but always using as mere fuel wherewith to heap the altar of the future every real gift which is offered them in the Present.
C.S. Lewis
#18. Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Bil Keane
#19. Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
Bai Ling
#20. Past, I am letting you go; future, I will see you tomorrow; present, I love you, live in you, use you and never let you go.
Debasish Mridha
#21. Don't worry," says Ricky. "I'm sure everyone isn't bringing a present. You can just think of paying the cover charge as your gift."
"What? A cover charge? Presents? What are these people, a bunch of capitalists?
Tim Tharp
#22. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
Ernest Hemingway,
#23. A whole new year is waiting for you. I pray that you'll pray for Jesus to grow in you, for everything you say and think and do to reflect more and more of him. For you and me, every day can be Christmas. Let's present the world with the greatest gift of all: Jesus.
Max Lucado
#24. Ancient Chinese custom if you were a guest in one of their homes and you admired some particular thing, they would wrap it up and present it to you as a gift. But isn't that what life does.
Sterling W. Sill
#25. Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.
Richard Powers
#26. I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift ... for those who are willing to receive it.
Ace Frehley
#27. The present is precious gift.
The past cannot be replayed.
The future is no guarantee.
Live in the present.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#28. God i've missed you. I can't wait to give you your present. He kisses me hotter this time, and beneath me, through his denim and mine. I can feel the promise of his Christmas gift soon to come.
Ellen Hopkins
#29. Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.
Louise Hay
#30. You gave me Christopher Robin, and then
You breathed new life in Pooh.
Whatever of each has left my pen
Goes homing back to you.
My book is ready, and comes to greet
The mother it longs to see
It would be my present to you, my sweet,
If it weren't your gift to me.
A.A. Milne
#31. My job as a writer is simple. Write a book I'm proud of, and present it as a gift to the world.
Some will love it.
Some will hate it.
That's the nature of art.
Kathleen Baldwin
#32. Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.
Gift Of Gab
#33. We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow.
Martin Luther
#34. The past is your LESSON. The present is your GIFT. The future is your MOTIVATION.
Zig Ziglar
#35. Each morning she reminded herself that life was a gift, something she'd learned from Pops. Each day was a present to be opened and relished. So today she'd cherish the gift.
Heather Burch
#36. Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.
Bil Keane
#37. A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Thomas Fuller
#38. Just living is not always living. Look at your life. Can you call it a blessing? Can you call it a gift? A present of existence? Would you want this life to be given to you again and again?
Osho
#39. Joel Waldfogel is one of the smartest and funniest economists on the planet. I think of him every time I start to unwrap a present. Buy Scroogenomics for your friends and family. It makes the perfect Christmas gift.
Ian Ayres
#40. As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade.
Emilio Pucci
#41. One Valentine's Day I woke up to find that my husband had laid a trail of red hearts from the bed and halfway around the house to my present. The gift was small because we didn't have much money but I was touched to the heart by the effort he had made to surprise and please me.
Lynne Graham
#42. Yesterday was the past. Tomorrow is the future. Today is the gift. That's why it's the present.
Bill Keane
#43. A gift can never be cheap or insignificant because of the heart and love it carries.
Munia Khan
#44. But remember, there's no greater gift than the present.
Dan Santat
#45. If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.
Guy Finley
#46. And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#47. Old & New put their stamp to everything in Nature. The snowflake that is now falling is marked by both. The present moment gives the motion & the color of the flake: Antiquity, its form & properties. All things wear a luster which is the gift of the present & a tarnish of time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#48. If you're not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your 'today.' The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that's yours in Christ. Don't let it go.
Joyce Meyer
#49. Live each day like there is no tomorrow, but don't forget to live each day like there was no yesterday either. Live in the present, for it is a gift from God. That's why it is called the present.
Emily Austin
#50. Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
Guy Finley
#51. Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.
Nirmalananda
#52. A first edition of Peter Pan appeared gift-wrapped on my bed - Lucy admitted that Asher had drafted her to help deliver that present.
Corrine Jackson
#53. Past and future is determined by what is now ... right now! This is why the present is a gift; the only one that ultimately matters most.
T.F. Hodge
#54. You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#55. The seeds of life inside my womb were present at my birth; a gift from mother's mother, on back to Mother Earth.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#56. If needs must, she could do those things for herself-or find another man. And yet...she needed him-would mourn his loss if it came. Perhaps forever. In his present vulnerable mood, that knowledge seemed a great gift.
Diana Gabaldon
#57. Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift
i guess thats why its the present
Joe Budden
#59. YESTERDAY IS HISTORY. TOMORROW IS A MYSTERY. TODAY IS A GIFT. THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED THE PRESENT. WORK HARD, BE HAPPY, AND ENJOY YOUR LIFE IN WAYWARD PINES!
Blake Crouch
#60. Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.
Rick Pitino
#62. I want to reach in my pants, pull out my virginity, wrap it up and put a bow on it. Or maybe stick it in a gift bag from Target and give it to him like a present with a nice card that says, Thank you for being you! Just a little virginity to show you may gratitude!
Tara Sivec
#63. At its heart shamanism is an ouroboros that, regardless of
cultural or religious trappings that have crowded its path, what
remains its critically profound gift to the present lies in its
simplistic roots of the past.
S. Kelley Harrell
#64. A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.
Diane Johnson
#65. The greatest gifts are those that say, "I know you".
Fennel Hudson
#67. Why Your Penis is a Gift
Think of the past as your left pocket,
the future as your right pocket ~
which leaves your penis as the present.
Beryl Dov
#68. Christianity is the present: it is both gift and task, receiving the gift of God's inner closeness and - as a consequence - bearing witness to Jesus Christ.
Pope Benedict XVI
#69. You gotta live in the moment. I don't care what you've done in your life, it has nothing to do with what you're gonna do or what you can do. The past is history, tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift-that's why they call it the present.
Mike Ditka
#70. No one can or will ever feel your pain as much as you. Forgive yourself for the past, seize the gift of the present moment.
K.J. Kilton
#71. When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
Hector Hugh Munro
#72. You must not expect anything from others. It's you, of yourself, of whom you must ask a lot. Only from oneself has one the right to ask everything and anything. This way it's up to you - your own choices - what you get from others remains a present, a gift.
Albert Schweitzer
#73. At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
James A. Garfield
#75. Opening a present from a live person was scary enough. There was always the chance that the gift might be so wrong, so completely not the kind of thing you liked, that you'd realize they didn't really know you at all.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#76. I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'
Samantha Bond
#77. From the beginning of time until the present moment, man's ungodly quest for power, his determination to use his gift of free choice for his own selfish ends, has brought him to the brink of doom.
Billy Graham
#78. The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present.
Alice Morse Earle
#79. Tomorrow is a mystery. Yesterday is history. Live today, it's a gift, that's why they call it present.
Aleatha Romig
#80. God's present is his presence. His greatest gift is himself.
Max Lucado
#81. The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#82. You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.
Sanhita Baruah
#83. Liberty was paid for by past sacrifices and given to us as a present gift.
Orrin Woodward
#84. Outside the Apothecary, Hagrid checked Harry's list again.
'Just yer wand left
oh yeah, an I still haven't got yeh a birthday present.'
Harry felt himself go red.
'You don't have to
'
'I know I don't have to. Tell yeh what, I'll get yer animal.
J.K. Rowling
#85. Even when you'd lost everything you thought there was to lose, somebody came along and gave you something for free.
Jenny Valentine
#86. The past is a gift that should not be unwrapped in the present.
Steven Aitchison
#87. Time is a gift, a treasure not to be put aside for the future but to be used wisely in the present.
Thomas S. Monson
#88. Dreams are like gift wraps, they make your present more attractive & beautiful.
Himanshu Chhabra
#89. Life is a gift. Enjoy the 'present' with gratitude!
Wendy Sue Noah
#91. The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family
Mother Teresa
#92. When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul - the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul.
Debbie Ford
#93. The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.
John Eldredge
#94. Loan me your lace of yellow, sister
Lend me your fine kid gloves
Tonight is the bridal ball, sister
Tonight I'll meet my love
Present me a sash of blue, sister
Gift me a ribbon of white
My love awaits me below, sister
I am a bride tonight
Shannon Hale
#95. Iran and Iraq have been at war for five years now. The traditional present for a fifth anniversary is wood. Here's a gift suggestion: a big stick to beat some goddamned sense into their
heads.
P. J. O'Rourke
#96. I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.
Michael Jackson
#98. That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.
Paul Magrs
#99. Never looking back, or too far in front of me. The present is a gift, and I just wanna to be.
Common
#100. The idea that the Lord had given us a present, that the world is a gift from God ... well, the amount of stuff, back then, that the Lord was giving away was limited. We do not have dominion.
David Attenborough
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