Great Gifts Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Faith is a great gift to have.

Bern Will Brown

#5. At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.

Charlene Costanzo

#6. Great love, like great genius, can never be a duty: both are life's gracious gifts to its elect.

Ellen Key

#7. Dear young people, do not bury your talents, the gifts that god has given you! Do not be afraid to dream of great things!

Pope Francis

#8. All connections - great and small - that come to those who have a dream, and stay focused on that dream, change into gifts for realizing their dreams.

Ilchi Lee

#9. It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast
easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

Alfred Adler

#10. Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

Saint Augustine

#11. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#12. I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.

Laurie R. King

#13. The Lord accomplishes great things through weak people ... What is required of His people is an obedient spirit, not a roster of tremendous gifts and abilities.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#14. That's one of the great gifts of this, the greatest of all games, baseball: it allows you, still, to lose yourself in a dream, to feel and remember a season of life when summer never seemed to die and the assault of cynicism hadn't begun to batter optimism.

Mike Barnicle

#15. There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.

Joseph Addison

#16. The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious.

Bono

#17. God takes great delight in surprising His people with His goodness. He delights in being there for us, in coming through for us. He loves to give us the good gifts of His provision and grace that reveal to us His nature and His character.

John Paul Jackson

#18. Great churches aren't built on the gifts or talents of a few, but on the sacrifice of many.

Brian Houston

#19. As was your mother, you have been given the fatal gift of genius. Because of it, your life will not be an easy one - nor must you expect it to be. You must remember always that great gifts come at great cost.

Alan Bradley

#20. Possessing an array of athletic gifts is something most tennis players can only dream about. Most players, if they're lucky, have one attribute that stands out
either a monster serve, great footspeed, superb touch, superior timing or innate feel for the ball.

Dave McPherson

#21. If you don't want me to buy you silly gifts with great emotional import, don't disappear in the middle of the mall.

Amy Lane

#22. 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

#23. Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Kindness is one of the best gifts you can bestow ... We know that inherently that feels great.

Joe Rogan

#25. A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.

Gautama Buddha

#26. Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

Alexander Pope

#28. What often separates the good from the great is a layer of innate ability, a gift, so it's partly that. There's many people with great gifts who don't work hard enough, or perhaps take it for granted, and therefore they don't have the passion and the commitment for it.

Paul Rankin

#29. All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

G.K. Chesterton

#30. Great men are among the best gifts which God bestows upon a people.

George Stillman Hillard

#31. Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.

Martin Luther

#32. One of the great themes of the Christian Bible is that, whenever God asks us to do something for him, he gives us the gifts we need to do it. Knowing us for what we are, he equips us for what he wants us to do.

Alister E. McGrath

#33. You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised:

William Shakespeare

#34. Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.

Gene R. Cook

#35. Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Jean De La Bruyere

#36. We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy.

James E. Rogers

#37. One of yoga's great gifts to making is the discovery of the link that exists between energy, breath, and mind. As you change one, you also change the other two. If you excite one, the other two become excited and, conversely, if you calm one, the other two respond by becoming calm also.

John Novak

#38. Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.

Barbara Sher

#39. You can achieve great things by utilizing your God-given talent

Sunday Adelaja

#40. Practical gifts are another great way to be thoughtful, and they work for anything from birthdays to dinner-party gifts.

Phoebe Cates

#41. The great danger of riches is that our affections will be carried away from God to His gifts.

John Piper

#42. The skill, the art of literacy is a gift. To read is to watch in your mind as a single word explodes into a confetti of images. Truly, of all the gifts given to man, reading is most sacred, For from words come dreams and from dreams come great tomorrows.

Stephen Cosgrove

#43. All great gifts come with a great price, Bel murmured.

C.L. Wilson

#44. The simple act of recognizing diversity in corporate life helps us to connect the great variety of gifts that people bring to the work and service of the corporation.

Max De Pree

#45. The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Tess Gerritsen

#46. I know that great gifts come at a price, and that not all talent inspires admiration.

Sally O'Reilly

#47. For me, fiction's great gift - to writer and reader, alike - is freedom.

Norman Lock

#48. It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

Mahatma Gandhi

#49. Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

King James I

#50. Sometimes our greatest gifts and talents are birthed through great pain and suffering

Timothy Pina

#51. The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

James A. Michener

#52. It feels great to do what you love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#53. By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.

Fredrik Bajer

#54. God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.

John Mark Reynolds

#55. Great grace and small gifts are better than great gifts and no grace.

John Bunyan

#56. All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

Dennis Haysbert

#57. An unexamined faith is not worth having, for fundamentalism and uncritical certitude entail the rejection of one of the great human gifts: that of free will, of the liberty to make up our own minds based on evidence and tradition and reason.

Jon Meacham

#58. A man begins to exist with a divine mission.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#59. Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

John Wyndham

#60. One of the great gifts of the arcade was the way it put us all on the same level.

Drew Nellins Smith

#61. Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction.

Zig Ziglar

#62. Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

Gabriel Byrne

#63. Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

Alethea Kontis

#64. After the great hurt and defeat in your life will come your great gifts that will bring you joy. Like the rainbow after the storm telling you ... now go and enjoy your life! For In everything in this life ... God is always good.

Timothy Pina

#65. Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

Antonya Nelson

#66. Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

Seth

#67. It's one of the great gifts of having so little money that you are able to make these kinds of radical conceits that you could never afford to do had you had a reasonable budget,.

Todd Solondz

#68. You can give a great and wonderful Christmas if you remember the gifts God has given you and, as best you can, offer them to others as He would. That is the spirit of Christmas and of true happiness every day.

Henry B. Eyring

#69. One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

Criss Jami

#70. All the gifts and talents we have are from God, but they are also for God ... for His glory and for His pleasure. Don't waste them, make great use of them and make Him proud.

Amari Cooper

#71. Verse 11. (They presented unto Him gifts). The people of the east never approach the presence of kings and great personages, without a present in their hands. The custom is often noticed in the Old Testament, and still prevails in the east, and in some of the newly discovered South Sea Islands.

Adam Clarke

#72. Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.

Cheryl Crawford

#73. The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

Hannah Arendt

#74. People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#75. But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:
Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!

William Shakespeare

#76. We are nothing with all our gifts be they ever so great, except God assist us.

Martin Luther

#77. You don't have to have a great gift for God to use it in a great way.

Joel Osteen

#78. The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day suddenly wake up and discover why.

G.K. Chesterton

#79. Fred Sturm has proven to be a great asset to the musical world as a teacher, composer and author. His gifts have enriched the musical life of all the people who have been fortunate enough to share his wisdom and musicality.

Bob Brookmeyer

#80. I loved the comradeship of the sixties and the seventies, and I still maintain friendships with the people I worked with then - the ones that are still alive. That's one of the great gifts of our political movements, great friendships ... and also a few enmities.

Grace Paley

#81. Day by day thou art making me worthy of the simple, great gifts that thou gavest to me unasked - this sky and the light, this body and the life and the mind - saving me from perils of overmuch desire.

Rabindranath Tagore

#82. It is one of the gifts of great spiritual teachers to make things simple. It is one of the gifts of their followers to complicate them again. Often we need to scrape away the accumulated complications of a master's message in order to hear the kernel of what they said. (24)

Julia Cameron

#83. Your neediness qualifies you to help others. Your neediness, offered well to someone else, can even be one of the great gifts you give to your church. You will inspire others to ask for help.

Edward T. Welch

#84. Anyone who wants to be great and influential person should be ready to pay the highest price in order to develop their gifts and submit themselves to this gift

Sunday Adelaja

#85. I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.

Pierce Brosnan

#86. Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

Dani Shapiro

#87. The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity.

Theodore Roosevelt

#88. Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.

Imtiaz Ali

#89. Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

Ellen Bass

#90. You ought to recognise your special talent, for your specific purpose.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#91. Who can be 100 percent sure of one's choices in life? How do you know that your beloved will always remain the same, or that you'll never change your mind? Growth and change are two of the great gifts we get from time. It would be shortsighted to spurn them.

Alma Katsu

#92. There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. A man with these gifts was rich and was a great spirit who was admired in the same way that the gussaks admired a man with money and goods.

Jean Craighead George

#93. Everything we think of as great has come to us from neurotics. It is they and they alone who found religions and create great works of art. The world will never realize how much it owes to them and what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.

Marcel Proust

#94. There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts ... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.

Carl Jung

#95. one of the great gifts of our profession is that the process
of doing what we do allows us to become better human beings.

Marianne Schneider Corey

#96. You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

#97. Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season;
And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#98. The birth of a new born baby is a great joy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#99. A lot of the jewelry that I wear are fan gifts because they're so awesome and they give me great presents.

Taylor Swift

#100. Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.

Rainer Maria Rilke