Top 100 Greatest Gifts Quotes
#1. I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type a question into Google and watch the question auto-fill. In that moment, we know someone else has asked that same question. The gift of realizing you're not alone is incredibly powerful.
Ze Frank
#2. Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.
Edward R. Murrow
#3. In my opinion, the ability to love another person is one of God's greatest gifts, and I thank God every day for enabling me to give and share love with the people in my life.
Anderson Cooper
#5. So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.
Tim Cook
#6. I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.
Amanda Palmer
#7. One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
Barbara Smith
#8. Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.
Liya Kebede
#9. Peace is one of the greatest gifts we can leave our children.
Jon Jones
#10. I will never be a stupid girl ... and neither should you. Today, charting your own course isn't just more necessary than ever before ... it's also much easier
and much more fun. A good education is one of the greatest gifts you could ever give yourself.
Pink
#11. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
#12. Freedom of religion is one of the greatest gifts of God to man, without distinction of race and color. He is the author and lord of conscience, and no power on earth has a right to stand between God and the conscience.
Philip Schaff
#13. The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.
Martin Luther
#14. If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have 'nothing' so that I can finally learn how to appreciate 'everything'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#15. One of the greatest gifts adults can give - to their offspring and to their society - is to read to children.
Carl Sagan
#16. The wisdom of other cultures is one of the greatest gifts that a traveler can bring home. It takes no room in your suitcase - only an open mind and an open heart.
Peggy Kopman-Owens
#17. The greatest gifts are those that say, "I know you".
Fennel Hudson
#18. One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.
Caroline Kennedy
#20. One of the greatest gifts of life is having a chance to live as long as there are people on earth.
Kenneth De Guzman
#21. One of the greatest gifts in this world is the ability to make others smile. - The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jonathan Fisher
J.E.B. Spredemann
#22. I think that's one of the greatest gifts you get if you're successful at something like music or film or photography - any of the arts - you can sit there and think. It's so much fun to sit there and think and wonder about the world and the universe.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#23. Our feelings and intuition are two of our greatest gifts. Too often we don't trust, rely, or act on them. ~Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen
#24. I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself.
Maya Angelou
#25. Allow yourself to love him, Nicole. That's one of the greatest gifts a mother can give to her child, you know. To love her child's father. I firmly believe that once Gabe's heart heals, he'll discover that you and your child already have a place there.
Emily March
#26. Dreaming is one of humanity's greatest gifts - it champions aspiration, spurs innovation, leads to change, and propels the world forward.
Richard Branson
#27. I have learned ... adversity can be one of the greatest gifts of all.
Robert Kiyosaki
#28. Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting your every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who you are. Your very essence is as a creator. No one creates exactly like you do. Your thoughts and actions color the world.
Renae A. Sauter
#29. For the sage
Heaven and Earth join
in bestowing the greatest gifts
Lao-Tzu
#30. One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.
Pat Conroy
#32. The greatest gifts of a New Year; it brings a new beginning, new blessings and new bliss.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#33. Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.
Napoleon Hill
#34. You deserve a man who makes you feel butterflies. Love isn't safe. Love is crazy and scary and unpredictable. You can't control it and you sure as hell can't fight it. It's one of life's greatest risks ... but it's also one of life's greatest gifts.
Karli Perrin
#35. Sometimes our greatest gifts and talents are birthed through great pain and suffering
Timothy Pina
#36. Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.
Thomas S. Monson
#37. One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of it as much as we could when it comes to matters of the heart.
Niecy Nash
#38. I think the greatest gifts we can give each other in a relationship are the gifts of kindness and communication.
Jane Green
#39. If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.
Saint Augustine
#40. I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
George Michael
#41. Everyone knows how to smile. Its one of the greatest gifts God has given us. A smile makes people feel good, and people look so beautiful when they smile.
Joyce Meyer
#42. You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#43. One of the greatest gifts to mankind is laughter, and one of the greatest gifts to laughter is Lucille Ball. God has her now but thanks to television, we'll have her forever.
Bob Hope
#44. Sometimes our greatest gifts are right before our very eyes!
Teresa Tuten
#45. One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
Ace Frehley
#46. Some of the very greatest gifts bring an inevitable downside which you cannot "cure" without curing the gift at the same time.
Stephanie S. Tolan
#47. Shakespeare in the Park is one of the greatest gifts in New York City. You just have to wait for the tickets - and it's worth the wait.
Jesse L. Martin
#49. Making someone feel visible is one of the greatest gifts you can give another human being, especially children,
D.E. Boyer
#50. 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
#51. Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything that's breaking us. And God loves us far too much not to give us exactly those kinds of gifts.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#52. Music is everywhere," Maude said softly. "It is in the water, in the wind's hum, in the bird's cry, in the boat's horn. Rhythm surrounds us. That is one of life's greatest gifts.
Anna Adams
#53. Yes, there's a relaying of internal states that only a novel can achieve. In my view, the novel is one of Europe's greatest gifts to the world. America and Africa collaborated to give the world jazz. We'll call it even.
Teju Cole
#54. The things we share with each other are deeply felt from within our hearts that neither of us will ever forget. For the gifts that are priceless are the ones that are heartfelt; their roots are within our soul. They are the greatest gifts, of all.
Ellen J. Barrier
#55. The greatest gifts my parents gave to me ... were their unconditional love and a set of values.
Colin Powell
#56. Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.
Matthew Knisely
#57. My children are my greatest gifts and my greatest inspirations.
Trista Sutter
#59. One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention
Jim Rohn
#60. The simple things in life are the greatest gifts.
Bryant McGill
#61. You who have received so much love, show your love by protecting the sacredness of life. The sacredness of life is the greatest gifts that God has given us.
Mother Teresa
#62. One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
Ben Okri
#63. One of our greatest gifts is out intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have - we just need to learn to tap into and trust it.
Donna Karan
#64. Kindness is one of the greatest gifts you can bestow upon another. If someone is in need, lend them a helping hand. Do not wait for a thank you. True kindness lies within the act of giving without the expectation of something in return.
Katharine Hepburn
#65. For me, books have always been the greatest gifts. I love to give and receive them because I know they are a reflection of the giver.
Colleen Mariotti
#66. Mortality is one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed. After a long and fruitful life, we are able to rest.
Nancy Straight
#67. My mom and my dad taught me the greatest gifts we have are our family, our health and the right to clean water and good land.
Erin Brockovich
#68. I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.
Hillary Clinton
#69. My New Years Resolution is to find the calm in the chaos. Practicing yoga is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself. It's where you connect mind, body and spirit.
Donna Karan
#70. The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.
John Owen
#71. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Garth Brooks
#72. Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive.
Jen Selinsky
#73. It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given.
Wintley Phipps
#74. And in busy London there now grew up one of the greatest gifts that the English genius was to leave the world. For in the reign of Elizabeth I began the first and greatest flowering of the glorious English theatre.
Edward Rutherfurd
#76. The ability to earn a living by doing the thing one loves must be one of life's greatest gifts.
Jojo Moyes
#77. Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.
Ken Page
#78. Suzanne was kind of slutty, and it was good for every hot woman to have a slutty best friend because being able to judge your friends is one of the greatest gifts of friendship.
Alexandra Brenton
#79. One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
Mandy Patinkin
#80. giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.
Richard Dawkins
#81. One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is to help them find their talents.
Sean Covey
#82. One of the greatest gifts we can give someone is our undivided attention
a thought that whispers constantly in the ear of any author who respects their readers.
Ella J. Fraser
#83. One of the greatest gifts to give our friends and others is a prayer.
Ellen J. Barrier
#84. The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley
#85. Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that.
Maya Angelou
#86. When we love and want nothing but good for that person, it's one of the greatest gifts we possess.
Anne Rice
#87. Knowledge of our own mortality is the greatest gift God ever gives us.
Anna Quindlen
#88. The greatest joy is in giving; after all, God gave Christ for us.
Ashley Ormon
#89. May you also remember this Thanksgiving not only the obvious gifts that God has given you, but His spiritual blessings, as well. The greatest gift of all is Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers us in Him.
Billy Graham
#90. In America we have the greatest chance for opportunity than anyone else in the past six and a half thousand years. Never in recorded history have so many different gifts from all over the world been deposited in one country.
Jim Rohn
#91. The greatest gift on this planet is to love and be loved.
Don Chipp
#92. Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life.
Bryant McGill
#93. 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
#94. Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.
Peter B. Lewis
#96. Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
Freeman Dyson
#97. God's purpose in creation was to let us prove ourselves. The plan was explained to us in the spirit world before we were born. We were valiant enough there to qualify for the opportunity to choose against temptation here to prepare for eternal life, the greatest of all the gifts of God.
Henry B. Eyring
#98. Frailty and cruelty are our gifts to the world. Who is to say that suffering is not the greatest of all gifts from the gods?
Douglas Clegg
#100. 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
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