Top 100 You Have A Gift Quotes
#1. You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.
Sarah Brightman
#2. I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital ... He said, 'You have a gift ... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.
Dawn Fraser
#3. But when you have a gift, it isn't yours to keep to yourself. It's the reason you're here. It's your purpose.
Nancy Horan
#4. You have a gift for making a compliment sound like an insult.
James Dashner
#5. If you have a gift for something, it's wrong not to work at it!
Morgan Matson
#6. Don't give a gift with the expectation to get,
but if you have a gift, always try to give.
Debasish Mridha
#7. I talked with Brian Stokes Mitchell, who agreed with me that if you have a gift there is always stuff to do.
Estelle Parsons
#8. Even if you have a gift, it's nearly impossible to become a good actor in just a few weeks of training.
Signe Baumane
#9. You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.
Ian Brown
#10. Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people.
Jack: I see you.
Rose: And?
Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.
James Cameron
#11. You make people happy. When you're in front of a crowd, nobody can think about their problems or their worries or anything else. You have a gift, Kes, an amazing wonderful gift. It's special, just like you.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#12. used these personally. I would not recommend ordering off Amazon except as a last resort (ie. If you have a gift
Dustin Yarc
#13. My mom always said if you have a gift, it is absolutely not about you. So I don't get twisted and think for one second it's all about me.
Tessanne Chin
#14. But more importantly, you are a gift, to all who know you, whether or not they realize it. If they don't, they are blind. You have a special place in this world. All you hvae to do is find it.
Ellen Hopkins
#15. I wrote a book on grace, and grace is a free gift, but to receive the gift you have to have your hands open. And a lot of people don't have their hands open, there's something they're grasping because there's a lot of things to grasp in a prosperous country.
Philip Yancey
#16. I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.
Sandi Bachom
#17. You have a great heart, but will only find it to be so through great pain. This is the wisdom of love, and its doubtful gift ... I have endured much suffering and still remain unbitter and unclosed.
Alison Croggon
#18. Gratitude is more than just a simple "thank you" when you receive a gift. It is about keeping in mind that you live right now, allowing yourself to focus on the moment and appreciate the life you lead, to focus on all that you do have, not what you don't. Cliches? Totally.
Meik Wiking
#19. Instead of buying something for you that you want I give you something that is mine, truly mine. A gift, a sign of respect for the person I have in front of me. Now you have a little piece of me with you which I gave you freely and spontaniously.
Paulo Coelho
#20. You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can't do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it's just weakness to quit because something becomes too hard ...
Morgan Matson
#21. Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
Carol Ann Duffy
#22. Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.
Robert Genn
#23. I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife.
Louise Brooks
#24. When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.
Paul Stanley
#25. Sit up straight." "Don't fidget." "Write a thank-you note the minute you receive a gift or return home from a party." "Always have fresh flowers, no matter the cost." "Clean gloves and shoes are the sign of a lady." "Never let the help get the upper hand." "Be discreet." "Be above gossip.
Melanie Benjamin
#26. Strength is not nearly as important as desire. I don't think you can teach anyone desire. I think it's a gift. I don't know why I have it, but I do.
Larry Bird
#27. That is a gift to have four weeks to rehearse something. But remember, when you're doing a play half of that time you're getting to know the play and the other actors and then finally in the third week you have it pretty much on its feet. So it's all relative in different ways.
Jeff Fahey
#28. You are worthy of love and you deserve to be happy. You have these beautiful qualities and many more because you are living the gift of a human incarnation. My hope is that you will embrace these truths and your birthright to live a life abundant in love, joy, and celebration.
David Simon
#29. Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.
Robert Schumann
#30. What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
Ralph Marston
#31. You have been given a gift - your life. What will you do with it?
Michael Hyatt
#32. Everyone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it. Obviously, it's a challenge - but if you're not taking the bull by the horns, I have no patience for you. You're just taking up space.
Melissa Rosenberg
#33. I haven't had such an overwhelmingly positive response as I have from The Normal Heart directly to me. And it's a blessing. If this is it, if I have a piano dropped on me tomorrow, then I would go down thinking, You know what, I did okay as far as my career goes, because that's a gift. That's rare.
Mark Ruffalo
#34. Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.
Malcolm Gladwell
#35. If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift and a new chance to try again.
Bryant McGill
#36. A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God ... When you have been given something in a moment of grace, it is sacrilegious to be greedy.
Marian Anderson
#37. I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.
Sasha Azevedo
#38. Your attitude towards your husband will reflect how you receive your gift. You are also a gift! A precious and powerful gift--a counterpart, a wife. It is important to see your husband and yourself as gifts to each other everyday you have together, for that will influence how you treat each other.
Jennifer Smith
#39. Healing is a deeply private process and, honestly, you're not welcome to be a part of it. But you will have given me a short furlough from the dark, sorry prison of my mind, and that gift, precious in its own right, is really the best you can hope to offer.
Jonathan Tropper
#40. He tugged my zipper down like he was unveiling a gift, spreading my pants open. "Yeah. There it is. You have a nice fat dick. I would have never guessed it."
"I'm Italian," I said inanely.
L.B. Gregg
#41. I've heard it said of faith that first we jump, and then we grow wings. Integrity is like that too, I think. That's what you have to gain. The sacrifice turns into a gift that is priceless.
Matt Baldwin
#42. All I'm saying, as a fan, is I'm tired of the same song for 30 years. Can't we change the message a little? You've arrived. You have a black president. Every white guy in a commercial doesn't have to be the idiot and every black guy in a rap song doesn't have to be God's gift to the world.
Bill Maher
#43. Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.
Smokey Robinson
#44. Sometimes you are lifted up to the mountaintop as a gift from the universe, so you can see what is possible. Then you are put down back at the bottom: Now you have to earn it for yourself.
Marianne Williamson
#45. In the future, each of us must have the courage to follow our gift or to be engaged in a favorite occupation, even if it does not bring you any income at the moment
Sunday Adelaja
#46. God has gifted me in communication. He has given me a gift to be very open about myself, which seems to really help a lot of people. It's not even anything I do on purpose. It's just something I don't have a problem with. I don't care what you know about me if it will help you.
Joyce Meyer
#47. I think that's the greatest gift one can have: point of view. You know? I've come to believe that if you have a bad memory of something, change it.
Liza Minnelli
#48. We were against the war in Vietnam and for voter registration and social issues. Everybody has their choices, and the obligation of a comedian is first to entertain. And if you're so inclined, and you have some bigger thought, make sure you express it, because that's a gift.
Tom Smothers
#50. The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone ... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us
Ze Frank
#51. What can I do to see Reality as it is?" The master smiled and said, "I have good news and bad news for you, my friend." "What's the bad news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift." "And what's the good news?" "There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.
Anthony De Mello
#52. The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.
Leo Babauta
#53. Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.
Naomi Alderman
#54. To value learning as a gift, you have to accept pain as a teacher.
Jury Nel
#55. You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!
Bill Henson
#56. You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.
Dizzy Gillespie
#57. People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.
Jeremy Piven
#58. I think to be empathetic is the greatest gift you can have as a designer. Hopefully, people will look at me and say, 'He really loved women.'
Michael Kors
#59. Life is a gift. We don't earn it. We don't own it. Learn to be thankful for the time that you have.
Joshua David Swift
#60. Well, perhaps you've caught me at a rare moment of weakness. The greatest gift is to be loved as I have been loved. As I love.
Jillian Hart
#61. Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways.
Linda Ronstadt
#62. Having adventures comes naturally to some people. You just have a gift for them or you don't have - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#63. Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don't fit in, it's a GIFT. Look at you. you've got your individuality, you don't have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.
Courtney Love
#64. 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
#65. Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song.
Thornton Wilder
#66. Who has a right to tell me I have no gift, no talent, no passion ... ' he murmured. 'Why do people say those things to you when youre young? Doesn't seem fair, does it?'
'No, darling, it's not fair,'she said. 'But the mystery is why you listen.
Anne Rice
#67. If you think beauty insipid, you haven't experienced it. Nor is it always devoid of suffering. That's something religious artists have always understood, Michelangelo, Chagall, and Van Gogh, Beethoven, C.S. Lewis, and all the writer's for whom beauty is a gift and a calling.
Kristen Heitzmann
#68. I have to say, I'm good with gifts. If I find something perfect for a certain person, I'll just get it and put it away in a kind of nook under my bed - a little gift hutch, if you prefer.
Julian Casablancas
#69. If you are a reader, you are already halfway to being a writer," she says. "For you have a love of words and pleasure from seeing them on a page. And if you are a writer, then you will find that you are driven to write. It is a gift that demands to be shared. You cannot be a silent singer.
Philippa Gregory
#70. I was trained by Method acting teachers and we were taught that aside from whatever gift you may or may not have or the level of that gift, that you were obliged to know how to build a table. It's a craft. It's like being a ballerina or a violinist.
Ellen Barkin
#71. There has never been and never will be another you. You have a purpose - a very special gift that only you can bring to the world.
Marie Forleo
#72. If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.
Laurieann Gibson
#73. Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.
Rebecca Solnit
#74. Freedom is not a gift of heaven, you have to fight for it every day
Simon Wiesenthal
#75. You don't have to have a great gift for God to use it in a great way.
Joel Osteen
#76. You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, the pain scarcely increases. They simple can't feel the extra burdens. But you have a greater capacity for suffering.
Vernor Vinge
#77. It was a gift, something you can't teach. His hands looked like they were born to have a golf club in them.
Curtis Strange
#78. Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back
Kim Stanley Robinson
#79. To have someone out there who understands you, who desires you, who sees you as a better version of yourself, is the most astonishing gift.
Jojo Moyes
#80. We all have been given a gift; if you have not sort it out yet, yours is stupidity.
M.F. Moonzajer
#81. I think the word 'social entrepreneur' is a really good description of what I am. What that means me to is that you have the entrepreneurial gift and spirit to create something out of nothing.
Blake Mycoskie
#82. Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have, Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship.
Oswald Chambers
#83. The gift is contact, sensuality: you will be touching what I have touched, a third skin unites us.
Roland Barthes
#84. One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.
John O'Donohue
#85. You have made Commerce a god that weighs on humanity like a twenty-four-pound boil on a man's back (117-118)
Walter Mosley
#86. Having adventures comes natural to some people", said Anne serenely. "You just have a gift for them or you haven't.
L.M. Montgomery
#87. There is no one like you on this planet. Not everyone may have the gift of being a good writer, but each one of us has a story to tell.
K.J. Kilton
#88. What a gift to know a man well enough to reduce him to desperation so quickly! And what a gift to have him know you just as well.
Kim Fielding
#89. Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.
Phillip C. McGraw
#90. Life will throw a lot at you, so you can count on learning something new every day. I have learned to open my heart and let life teach me whatever it has to offer. Every day is a gift wrapped in the lessons of tomorrow.
Amy Lynn Steele
#91. Coiled and personal, Laurent's gift was a Veretian whip, made of gold.
Damen recognized it.
[ ... ]
His gaze flung to Laurent. He knew he had flushed, he could feel the heat in his own cheeks. In front of the gathered generals, he couldn't say, What have you done?
C.S. Pacat
#92. Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
Florence Nightingale
#93. We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.
Rose Schneiderman
#94. Enjoy your life. God gave us our bodies as a gift. (Granted, to some of us it's kind of a gag gift, but that's okay too.) Wear what you want, love who you want, and have fun.
Ellen DeGeneres
#95. I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.
Mae West
#96. My gift is execution; when I decide I'm going to do something, I'll stop at nothing to do it. Along the way, you take a lot of risks and go for it, but you have to believe in it. You gotta believe in your idea, and lucky for me, I found a lot of success in that.
Rob Dyrdek
#97. If I gave you now, $10 as a gift, how happy would you be? Would you be happy, is the marginal $10, the best use of $10 you can use? Of course not. If I have you a CD, you know exactly what you are getting and you will have a value for it. So, money has lots of problems with it.
Dan Ariely
#98. Life is so precious, such a gift, you have to live for you. Live your own truth, live the life that God has put you and nobody else on this Earth to live and not what somebody might be telling you to live.
Tyler Perry
#99. Every talent you have is not wasted. It is there because of a reason and God will open that door when the right time comes along to use it.
Shannon L. Alder
#100. I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.
Teena Marie
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