Top 100 Gift Quotes
#1. This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.
J.R. Ward
#2. True love was a gift. Some people never recognized true love, while others allow true love to slip through their fingers
D.F. Jones
#3. As a wedding gift, Ray J gave Kim Kardashian his profits from their sex tape. It's 'Something Old' as well as 'Something Blew.'
Joan Rivers
#4. Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.
Paul David Tripp
#5. I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
John Denver
#6. For Christmas I do gift bags for my friends and the cast, and I put 'treat yo self' key chains in there. And people send me pictures of 'treat yo self' all the time.
Retta
#7. Wherefore we be not only His by His buying, but also by the courteous gift of His Father we be His bliss, we be His meed, we be His worship, we be His crown. (And this was a singular marvel and a full delectable beholding, that we be His crown!)
Julian Of Norwich
#8. Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.
Omar Suleiman
#9. The man who joins with youths stays young in heart and mind. In exchange for the gift of their vitality and eagerness, the mature of man can give guidance and trust, a sympathetic ear and helping hand.
Henry Clausen
#10. A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.
Lysa TerKeurst
#13. God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?
William Arthur Ward
#14. If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence
Thich Nhat Hanh
#15. I mean, my idea of exciting is getting an Amazon gift card and buying a whole bunch of books.
J. Daniels
#16. Age has given me the gift of me, it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant tender-hearted wife to myself.
Anne Lamott
#17. Hope was such a gift and a curse all rolled into one.
Maya Banks
#18. Free will was the greatest gift ever offered. God is not responsible for what we did with it. We are. - The Old Man And The Wasteland
Nick Cole
#19. No matter how bad you are make sure you thank God for gift of life each day
Kenneth Mahuka
#20. Life's not a preformance. Remember that. You've got nothing to prove.' Life as a performance focused on her and the ways she didn't measure up. Life as a gift focused on the Giver.
Sondra Kraak
#21. I had no idea what awaited me when I took a job with CBS Records, and it was a total surprise to find I had a gift and an ear for music.
Clive Davis
#22. It is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.
Beyonce Knowles
#23. The most popular Valentine's Day gift is chocolate. In the 1800's, doctors told their patients to eat chocolate to get over a broken heart. They also thought if you're going to be alone, who cares if you get fat.
Craig Ferguson
#24. Radical self-care is quantum, and radiates out into the atmosphere, like a little fresh air. It is a huge gift to the world. When people respond by saying, "Well, isn't she full of herself," smile obliquely, like Mona Lisa, and make both of you a nice cup of tea.
Anne Lamott
#25. For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved ([6]delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;
Anonymous
#26. I'm cursed with the gift of foresight.
Morrissey
#27. The greatest gift one can give to God is to be pleased with His creation.
Michael A. Singer
#28. Courage is a moral quality; it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives.
Charles Wilson, 1st Baron Moran
#30. Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself.
Anderson Cooper
#31. The cliche that comics always use is that whatever is happening in the news is 'the gift that keeps on giving.' I always thought that was a bunch of nonsense.
Andy Kindler
#32. Time alone is the gift of self-entertainment - and that is the font of creativity
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#33. It is a gift from God. It is breathed into you and, once you receive it, you feel both peace and excitement.
Bruce Van Horn
#35. Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are the gift of God?
Thomas Jefferson
#36. Staying present, living in Presence is the best gift anyone can give to those they love.
Guy Finley
#37. Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the power to go and sin no more.
Joseph Prince
#38. I love you so much, Eden. You're a miracle. My miracle. A gift I never dreamed of receiving. I'm so damn grateful for it.
Maya Banks
#39. Faith is salted and peppered through everything at Christmas. And I love at least one night by the Christmas tree to sing and feel the quiet holiness of that time that's set apart to celebrate love, friendship, and God's gift of the Christ child.
Amy Grant
#40. I use Ole Henriksen eye gel when I think of it, and go for facials when spa gift certificates appear as a professional thank-you or in a gift bag. Once ensconced in a facialist's chair, I let myself be coaxed into all sorts of treatments, because I'm there already, so why not?
Sloane Crosley
#41. Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift.
Antonya Nelson
#42. I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.
Paul Newman
#43. The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.
Seamus Heaney
#44. All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.
Homer
#45. I got to act with my childhood film idol, Robert Redford, and that's a gift in itself.
Chin Han
#46. Life is a journey. Part of that journey is not just using your talents, but trying to decide what is your gift and then directing your talents to support your gift so you can soar to new heights.
Daniel Burrus
#47. Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
Josee D'Amore
#48. When I found out that I could carry a tune, well, I came to realize that I had a gift, that it was a kind of a blessing. And I think if you're given something special, you ought to try and give that something back. If you don't, it's a sin. No question.
Howard Keel
#49. Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.
A Beautiful Mind Movie
#50. Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift.
Joel Osteen
#51. I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.
Gregory Allen Howard
#52. What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.
Kathy Mattea
#53. You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face
and tell him you have received his Christmas gift.
John R. Rice
#54. In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it.
Rashida Jones
#55. The Christmas gift of peace was the uncoiling of the links of a triple chain that first unites a person with God, then with himself, then with his neighbor.
Fulton J. Sheen
#56. No one escapes being hurt in this life, because unfortunately, we live in a fallen world. But please believe me when I say there's a great gift in pain.
Julie Lessman
#57. The world knows nothing of you. That is my gift to you. You are no one.
Mark Allen Smith
#58. 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
#59. Once a gift is given, no matter how you feel about the person giving it, it's yours.
Kristen Ashley
#60. Be grateful for everything. The good, the bad, the ugly. Our entire life is a precious gift. It's all part of our path.
Dawn Gluskin
#61. The greatest gift we give each other
is the quality of our attention.
Richard Moss
#62. The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.
John Burroughs
#63. Gift the love of your life with undistracted, untelevisioned, unhurried attentiveness.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#64. He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish.
Sylvain Reynard
#65. Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination ... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.
Karen Thompson Walker
#66. A gift, to be a gift, has to be accepted. Otherwise it lies like a burden between people.
Robert Fisher
#67. 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
#68. How do you know it was the blighted pile? Did you recognize Maiwenn's gift?"
"No, but there was a marble bust of Dorian in there, which I figured must have been his kingdom's 'humble' gift.
Richelle Mead
#69. He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Rafael Sabatini
#70. Science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#71. I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
Blaise Pascal
#72. When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#73. I really love sharing my gift with others. At the same time, I'm just a normal kid having fun and that's what life is all about-having fun at the same time as helping people.
Akiane Kramarik
#75. My gift's primarily literary. That being said, I ended up a musician. By the time I made the bluegrass record ... I'm more impressed with myself when I push the envelope musically than I am when I push it literality.
Steve Earle
#76. How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.
Parker J. Palmer
#77. Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.
Leo J. O'Donovan
#78. It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius - progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for some brilliant stroke, some lucky discovery, or the advent of some superman, has been the chief gift of science to social philosophy.
William Wickenden
#79. Mortals have become spoiled and ungracious, and fail to appreciate the things right around them. They forget that Christmas is about love, and God's perfect, selfless gift.
Cameo Renae
#80. The greatest gift at Christmas is love. The love that bind us together us one Human Family.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#81. It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
Victoria Principal
#82. Men seldom rise from low condition to high rank without employing either force or fraud, unless that rank should be attained either by gift or inheritance.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#83. Thus heaven's gift to us is this:
That habit takes the place of bliss.
Alexander Pushkin
#85. The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion, but the grace and love of God which culminate in the cross.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#86. Conversion is an offering of self, of love, and of loyalty we give to God in gratitude for the gift of testimony.
David A. Bednar
#87. What a gift it would be to receive at Christmastime a greater knowledge of the Lord. What a gift it would be to share that knowledge with others.
Ezra Taft Benson
#88. The university system, a gift of Western civilization to the world, was developed by the Catholic Church.
Thomas E. Woods Jr.
#89. Repenting is a gift God gives us for our own sake, not his.
John Ortberg
#90. In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could create an environment where young people could pursue science in an atmosphere of harmonious purpose and high intellectual challenge.
Sydney Brenner
#91. we're given the gift of life with the consequence of death. I think it'd be a mistake to focus on the consequence instead of the gift." That
Abby Fabiaschi
#93. I know it's corny, but laughter is a two-way gift, and hearing people laugh just warms me through and through.
Andy Dick
#94. People don't necessarily confide in one another to get something off their chest. They want something: reassurance, which is a hard gift to give convincingly.
Marilyn Manson
#95. The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.
L. Frank Baum
#96. The most beautiful gift I have received in my life is the trust of Clint Eastwood. When you have this respect and this kind of responsibility on your shoulders, of course you bring the best of yourself.
Cecile De France
#97. Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making the film 'Spartan.'
Rebecca Pidgeon
#98. Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Tony Robbins
#99. I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.
Aaron Siskind
#100. I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.
Jeff Henderson
