Great Gifts Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Gene R. Cook

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

C.L. Wilson

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

Sally O'Reilly

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

James A. Michener

#16. 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

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

John Bunyan

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

Drew Nellins Smith

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Cheryl Crawford

#23. 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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Theodore Roosevelt

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

#35. There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity,

Justinian I

#36. Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain.

Theodore Holmes Bullock

#37. One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

Ray Manzarek

#38. If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#39. It seems to me that awakening to the full potential of what your life might be - beyond the possibilities of your own family, your own class, your own race, your own neighborhood - that is one of the great gifts that art affords.

Dana Gioia

#40. Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

Alec Baldwin

#41. From the hell of the slave quarters would come some of the Deep South's great gifts to the continent: blues, jazz, gospel, and rock and roll, as well as the Caribbean-inspired foodways today enshrined in Southern-style barbeque joints from Miami to Anchorage.

Colin Woodard

#42. And I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

James Lee Burke

#43. To see is one of God's great gifts to man and to comprehend what we see is doubly so. Furthermore, He has endowed some people with the qualities to see the beauties of life and nature much more than others and they have the greatest gift of all.

Waite Phillips

#44. In the beginning," Scripture taught, "there was the Word," and Danny would come to believe that the two great gifts his God had given to the species He loved were time, which divides experience, and language, which binds the past to the future.

Mary Doria Russell

#45. Within every adversity is an equal or greater benefit.
Within every problem is an opportunity.
Even in the knocks of life, we can find great gifts.

Napoleon Hill

#46. Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

Dan Chaon

#47. Having a sous-chef with excellent cooking skills and a criminal mind is one of God's great gifts.

Anthony Bourdain

#48. 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

#49. Faith is a great gift to have.

Bern Will Brown

#50. 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

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

Ellen Key

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

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

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#57. 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

#58. 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.

#59. 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

#60. 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

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

Brian Houston

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Joe Rogan

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

Gautama Buddha

#68. 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

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

George Stillman Hillard

#70. 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

#71. 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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Jean De La Bruyere

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

Sunday Adelaja

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

Phoebe Cates

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

John Piper

#77. 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

#78. 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

#79. 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

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

Norman Lock

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#82. 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

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

Timothy Pina

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

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

John Wyndham

#90. 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

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. 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

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

Martin Luther

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

Joel Osteen