Gift Quotes

A friend is a gift you give yourself. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The only true gift is a portion of yourself. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. View quote
Émile Zola
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. View quote
Robertson Davies
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Your anger is a gift. View quote
Zack de la Rocha
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness. View quote
Gilda Radner
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior. View quote
Mary McCarthy
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible. View quote
James Clavell
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift. View quote
Steve Prefontaine
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self. (Max Stirner)
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it the present. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner
Beauty is the gift of God. View quote
Aristotle
Beauty is a fragile gift. View quote
Ovid
Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. View quote
Suzanne Somers
It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift. View quote
William Graham Sumner
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it. View quote
John Lennon
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. View quote
Louise Brooks
The violinist must possess the poet's gift of piercing the protective hide which grows on propagandists, stockbrokers and slave traders, to penetrate the deeper truth which lies within. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself. View quote
Jean Anouilh
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. View quote
Margaret Mead