Gift Quotes - page 2

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. (Ambrose Bierce)
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Evolution made civilization steward of this planet. A hundred thousand years later, the steward stood before evolution not helper but destroyer, not healer but parasite. So evolution withdrew its gift, passed civilization by, rescued the planet from intelligence and handed it to love. View quote
Richard Bach
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but, above all, the power of going out of one's self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another. View quote
Thomas Hughes
If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. View quote
George MacDonald
The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention. View quote
Rick Warren
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. View quote
Helen Keller
Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language. (Virginia Woolf)
You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. View quote
Desmond Tutu
The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. View quote
Basil Hume
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. View quote
Pierre Corneille
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization. View quote
Sigmund Freud
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. View quote
Albert Einstein
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. View quote
Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge. View quote
Albert Einstein
Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free. (Taraji P. Henson)
Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it. View quote
Barbara Coloroso
The greatest gift is not being afraid to question. View quote
Ruby Dee
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. View quote
José Martí