Top 100 Giving Gift Quotes
#2. Go not to the Elves for counsel,
for they will say both no and yes.
Elves seldom give unguarded advice,
for advice is a dangerous gift,
even from the wise to the wise,
and all courses may run ill.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#3. Whole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.
Harriet Lerner
#4. It's a gift to be able to give access.
Tory Burch
#5. May we give as the Savior gave. To give of oneself is a holy gift. We give as a remembrance of all the Savior has given.
Thomas S. Monson
#6. When you give a homemade gift, you are giving a part of yourself to the recipient. You can't do that with a mass-produced item.
Mark Frauenfelder
#7. The Christmas season is a gift in itself. It releases us from the priorities of ordinary time and gives us the right to party more and pray more and love more.
Joan D. Chittister
#9. Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.
Lionel Shriver
#10. Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.
Andrew Weil
#11. We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#12. Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.
Camryn Manheim
#13. If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.
Willa Cather
#15. Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing.
Nhat Hanh
#16. God does not consume us in his wrath, but instead he consumes his wrath on himself by becoming our substitute, paying for our sins and giving us the gift of salvation.
Rich Nathan
#17. 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
#18. True bravery is being exactly who you are, imperfections included. Vulnerability is the most precious gift you can give.
Sara Bareilles
#20. During inflation, Goodwill is the gift that keeps on giving.
Warren Buffett
#21. Do we give thanks to God 'for his unspeakable gift' and His rich blessings so abundantly bestowed upon us?
Thomas S. Monson
#23. My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#24. Forgiving's a choice you make - a gift you give to somebody even if they don't deserve it. It costs nothing, but it makes you feel rich for giving it away.
Lurlene McDaniel
#25. To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.
David Hawkins
#26. The greatest gift we can give another is the gift of a good example.
Delbert L. Stapley
#27. I'm so lucky to be in the position to give. It's really a gift to give.
Elvis Presley
#28. Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.
Amy Tan
#29. Looking at people and communicating that they can be loved, and that they can love in return, is giving them a tremendous gift. It is also a gift to ourselves. We see that we are one with the fabric of life. This is the power of metta: to teach ourselves and our world this inherent loveliness.
Sharon Salzberg
#30. What's novel today is the outspoken way that powerful donors admit and even champion the fact that gift-giving is a useful vehicle for preserving privilege, something that distinguishes them from earlier donors.
Linsey McGoey
#31. If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.
George MacDonald
#32. We of the United States consider ourselves blessed. We have much to give thanks for. But the gift of providence we cherish most is that we were given as our neighbors on this wonderful continent the people and the nation of Canada.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#33. In the linchpin economy, the winners are once again the artists who give gifts. Giving a gift makes you indispensable. Inventing a gift, creating art - that is what the market seeks out, and the givers are the ones who earn our respect and attention.
Seth Godin
#34. God prevented Adam & Even from ETERNAL SINFULNESS by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life & arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man's greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only through can we go to God.
Paul P. Enns
#35. A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.
Martin Heidegger
#36. I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.
Martin Luther
#37. Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha Norman
#38. The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.
Bill Crawford
#39. Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. The gift of sight to see beyond The darker clouds of now!
John McLeod
#41. Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future.
Florence Littauer
#42. I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question ... it [their virginity] is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
Tony Abbott
#43. In terms of instilling the values of mental toughness and work ethic, discipline is the gift that keeps on giving.
William Baldwin
#44. I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have not lost the gift of being able to drink of its inner strength. People can be killed for poetry here-a sign of unparalleled respect-because they are still capable of living by it.
Osip Mandelstam
#45. Oined the circle and prayed with these men [homeless] who seemed on the outside to have nothing to give but had been giving, without our knowing it, the most precious gift of all: compassion.
Ron Hall
#46. Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels; you give freely; and you count sacrifice a bargain ... those gifts are truly great which are given simply for the joy they bring to another heart.
Henry B. Eyring
#47. Where they come in the spirit of perpetual giving - the house that love built.
T.F. Hodge
#48. The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.
David Steindl-Rast
#49. God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.
Beth Moore
#51. This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.
Joseph Campbell
#52. The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.
Marge Piercy
#53. The finest gift you can give to any fisherman is to put a good fish back, and who knows if the fish that you caught isn't someone else's gift to you?
Lee Wulff
#54. Abortion is murder in the womb ... A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.
Mother Teresa
#55. There is no better application of the Golden Rule than to help a homeless pet. In doing this, you are giving the gift of life itself. And since there is no greater gift, there can be no greater reward
Samantha Glen
#56. Creativity is the gift that keeps on giving.
Eric Maisel
#58. The cross is the gift God gives to his friends.
Philip Neri
#60. Love is a gift. You give love and that's where the joy is.
Nicholas Sparks
#61. Then she took up her practice, not to prove her worth or to be seen, not in dignity or fear, but as though she were giving her whole life away as a gift to the world with every step.
Sallie Tisdale
#62. The only gift is giving to the poor;
All else is exchange.
Thiruvalluvar
#63. Doing great things for others is an awesome gift to give yourself.
Robin Sharma
#64. Know whatever comes to you unexpected to be a gift from God, which will surely serve you if you use it to the fullest. It is only that which you strive for out of your own imagination, that gives you trouble.
Brandon Bays
#65. Stop giving your gift to those who want to use you for the development of their legacy, at the cost of yours.
Steve Harvey
#66. Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.
Rob Bell
#67. As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.
Neal A. Maxwell
#68. A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
Oprah Winfrey
#69. The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?
Richard Rohr
#70. When you put your efforts into your gift, you are giving God something to bless.
Steve Harvey
#71. A great body is a gift you give yourself
Nelly
#72. The ice cold fear I'd felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma - the gift that keeps on giving.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#73. The greatest gift you can give to somebody is your own personal development
Jim Rohn
#74. Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
Anna Quindlen
#76. First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
Oksana Baiul
#77. I know what I have given you ... I do not know what you have received.
Antonio Porchia
#78. For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
Adam Mansbach
#79. Life is ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.
Ernest Holmes
#80. The second best thing after a gift itself is the way of giving it
Ali Boussi
#81. Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'.
Pope John Paul II
#82. Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.
Fred Melamed
#83. Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
A.A. Gill
#84. Emotions buzz through our beings like busy bees, giving us the gift of living vividly.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#85. When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.
Paul Stanley
#86. I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'
Mattie Stepanek
#87. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.
Thomas Merton
#88. When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time
Rick Warren
#89. Nonfear is the basis of true happiness, and if you can offer nonfear to someone, you are giving that person the best kind of gift.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#90. 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
#91. At this moment, life is trying to love you and give to you in a million wonderful ways. When you say Yes, you allow love to flow, which is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the universe ... What do you want that you could be more open to receiving?
Alan Cohen
#92. The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#93. (Giving your mother-in-law a gift is a good idea, but paying her for a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner is not recommended, even if both gestures would cost you the same amount of money.)
Dan Ariely
#94. At Christmas, we remember God's gift to us by giving gifts to each other.
Catherine Palmer
#95. It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.
Patrick Stewart
#96. When you express gratitude everyday, you give yourself the gift of experiencing the joy of gratitude everyday. Give yourself that gift today!
Hal Elrod
#97. Realize that by hurting your own characters, you are not a sadist. You are not deliberately hurting your loved ones merely to watch them suffer. You're giving a gift. You're helping them grow and develop. Your characters take on deeper meaning to become more alive on your pages. They'll become real.
James Chartrand
#98. The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
Barbara De Angelis
#99. Please don't miss me too much. Please don't be too sad. Find someone else to love, because you have much love to give and it's a gift that shouldn't be wasted. You , Jesse, were the rose that made my life sweet.I will wait for you in heaven.
Lurlene McDaniel
#100. Love is the most incredible gift to give and to receive as a human being,
Ellen Page
