Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Votes: 2
BuddhaMy father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. Votes: 2
Jim ValvanoGod gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?' Votes: 2
William Arthur WardThe greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. Votes: 2
Brian TracyYour talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Votes: 2
Leo BuscagliaI believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you. Votes: 2
Joyce MeyerGod gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Votes: 2
VoltaireWe like the gift when we the giver prize. Votes: 0
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and NormanbyPraise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Votes: 0
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonChance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron LyttonWhat we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him
Chinmayananda SaraswatiExuberance is a gift of grace that allows us to move on, to seek, to love again.
Kay Redfield JamisonWhat gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
Johann Kaspar LavaterTreat every piece of advice as a gift or a compliment and simply say, "Thank you.
Marshall GoldsmithThat's stupid, that's bias.. they lied, they don't wanna gift credit for anything
Michael J. JacksonThought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.
Jose Ortega y GassetRecognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.
Maynard James KeenanWoman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.
Winthrop Mackworth PraedNew York has been the best gift, in that the city pushes me to so many next levels.
Baratunde ThurstonThe music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.
Bebe Moore CampbellWith every adversity, there is an equal or greater gift. Keep looking for the gift.
Earl NightingaleExistence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
George Santayana"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?"
Marcus Tullius CiceroOf all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!
Winston ChurchillWhen God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didnât ask questions.
Catherine AndersonLive life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
Florence NightingaleIt is one thing to be gifted and quite another thing to be worthy of one's own gift.
Nadia BoulangerYou're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift.
P. G. WodehouseLove cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another
Paramahansa YoganandaFaith is like the hand of the beggar that takes the gift while adding nothing to it.
Thomas ChalmersFor a noble heart, the most precious gift becomes poor, when the giver stops loving.
William ShakespeareInner freedom is an infrequent gift of nature and a worthy object for the individual.
Albert EinsteinTry to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.
Julianna BaggottI love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything.
Michael JacksonSome people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.
Michelle RichmondDavid Pietrusza has a gift for making the past both real and dramatically gripping.
Richard Norton SmithThe prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.
Thomas CampbellWhen you rest, realize it is not simply ceasing from activityâ¦it is a gift from God.
Dillon BurroughsThe greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIn some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
Joni MitchellI feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.
Olivia Newton-JohnEvery day without exception - is a gift from God, entrusted to us to use for His glory.
Billy GrahamFreedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.
Boyd K. PackerNothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
Carlos CastanedaThe gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.
David O. RussellGod is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.
Francois FenelonOur sense of humor is a gift from God which should be controlled as well as cultivated.
J. Oswald SandersSometimes your gift takes you to a place that your character is not prepared to handle.
Kwame KilpatrickThis is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.
Lawrence Clark PowellWealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.
Martin LutherToo many people are buying gifts for themselves when they pick out a gift for a friend.
Phoebe CatesInspiration is the gift of those who have experienced life at its most defined moments,
Sasha AzevedoFreedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those shown themselves worthy of it.
Theodore RooseveltYou have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion.
Arthur Conan DoyleBeing out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy,
Bethany HamiltonStretch out your hand and receive the world's wide gift of joy, appreciation and beauty.
Corinne Roosevelt RobinsonWhole-hearted listening is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to the other person.
Harriet LernerAdvice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
J. R. R. TolkienApology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
Margaret Lee RunbeckYou cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.
Pope Gregory IYou can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.
Robert CollierMan can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.
Spencer W. KimballLife's gift to you is your unique vantage point. Your gift to life is expressing from it.
Alan CohenThe gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul.
Byllye AveryI think humor is the best gift, and if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?
Cameron Diaz[Liberty] is freedom of choice, a divine gift, an essential virtue in a peaceful society.
David O. McKayThe greatest gift a parent can give a child during all the ups and downs of life is love.
Doc ChildreYour responsibility is not to the people you're making the gift for, but the gift itself.
John GreenMoral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift
Tamora PierceIn this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
Willa Catherthe French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
Alice B. ToklasLifeâs greatest gift is the freedom it leaves you to step out of it whenever you choose.
Andre BretonMandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.
Christian WimanGratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.
David Steindl-RastIf your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?
Fred RogersListen to the whisperings of the Spirit, the gift of revelation to which you are entitled.
Gordon B. HinckleyBlessed, blessed is the True Guru, who has given the supreme gift of the Name of the Lord.
Guru Gobind SinghThat is the greatest gift my books have given me; what it means and has done for the kids.
Jean Craighead GeorgeSalvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift.
Joel OsteenPerhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.
Kristin ArmstrongThat speciï¬c remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.
Kurt Vonnegutthe giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.
Laura HuxleyHe says one word, nodding into the daylight. "Look." It's an astounding word. It's a gift.
Lauren DeStefanoBe grateful for who you are and whatever you have. Everything you have is a gift from God.
Rick WarrenThe real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.
Robert HoldenIt's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
Steven GallowayLeadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.
Bill HybelsTrust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it
Brennan Manning. . . besides love, independence of thought is the greatest gift an adult can give a child.
Bryce CourtenayHe's a gift from heaven, he is truly a gift from heaven. Whatever he touches turns to gold.
Cristiano RonaldoI suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.
Edna FerberThe thing with Ryan, you can look at him for hours. Very few actors have that. It's a gift.
Nicolas Winding RefnMy mind is always racing, and always going and always working, and it's a gift and a curse.
Puff DaddyJazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.
Ahmad AlaadeenGood sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
Alexander PopePoetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.
AristotleTalent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
Baron de MontesquieuThis must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.
Dorothy ParkerThere's no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
Gloria SteinemWhen you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.
Joyce MeyerHowever great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.
Mary MacLaneQuality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.
Phil CrosbyI focused more on sharing my gift and performing than worrying about it being a competition.
Rayvon OwenTo me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.
Sonia SotomayorYou know, gynecology has a role; sex is a gift. And literature is not about sending messages.
Amos OzIt is the most powerful creation to have life growing inside of you. There is no bigger gift.
Beyonce KnowlesOf all blessings, no gift equals the gentle, trusting love and companionship of a good woman.
Elbert HubbardThe gift of sonship to God becomes ours not through being born, but through being born again.
J. I. PackerThe greatest gift you can give someone is your time, your attention, your love, your concern.
Joel OsteenMy music is L-O-V-E because it's a gift, and you only give something when you feel it deeply.
Klaus NomiThe gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.
Sogyal RinpocheThe proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.
C. S. LewisIt is hard to think of something as a gift when you have been tormented and imprisoned for it.
Cassandra ClareShe had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.
Henry JamesI gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.
Milton BerleParanoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, and terrified...
Patricia BriggsComme des Garcons is a gift to oneself, not something to appeal or to attract the opposite sex
Rei KawakuboDo not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.
Robert GennFate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.
Samuel JohnsonArt is a personal gift that changes the recipient. The medium doesn't matter. The intent does.
Seth GodinI wouldn't say that I was an actress. I tried to be an actress. I really didn't have the gift.
Zoe CassavetesAnnual giving is the custom of making a gift-a-year to an institution in which one has faith...
Benjamin FranklinSome people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.
David GemmellHealth is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.
Eugen SandowIt is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.
Fernando PessoaThat friend, given to you by circumstances over which you have not control, was God's own gift.
Frederick William RobertsonYou know why I feel older? I went to buy sexy underwear and they automatically gift wrapped it.
Joan RiversI make niggas eat dirt and fart dust, Then give you a $80 gift certificate to Pussies "Я" Us.
LudacrisMy responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.
Mary J. BligeI'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it
Sugar Ray LeonardMusic is a big gift opportunity.We have to have our best offers disposed to capitalize on that.
Tom CorsonLove is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.
Wayne DyerHe was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Charles KingsleyThe gift of the great microscopist is the ability to think with the eyes and see with the brain.
Daniel MaziaWriting gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.
Doris McCarthyEveryone is given one gift, a reason for being, and it's our obligation to do something with it.
Melissa RosenbergMy deepest gratitude to the Creator for His gift to me...the joy I receive in creating my music.
Michael JacksonThe gift within the gift involved the opening of an inner eye that changed how I looked at life.
Michael MeadeLet us build a SAARC satellite which we can dedicate to our neighbourhood, as a gift from India.
Narendra ModiThe greatest gift you can give a person is to wake them up to remind them of who the really are.
Neale Donald WalschTear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.
Sara GennFor me, I understood the gift of being able to empower others and to not do everything yourself.
Wilmer ValderramaHe has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
Winston ChurchillGod has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are.
David JeremiahNext to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.
David O. McKayHuman emotions are a gift from our animal ancestors. Cruelty is a gift humanity has given itself.
HannibalWe have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place--or not to bother
Jane GoodallThe physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.
Kenneth MyersEvery human being has inside them something more important than him or herself - his or her Gift.
Paulo CoelhoI don't think I'm the gift of the world - I just do what I do, and I love it and I've been lucky.
Ralph LaurenThere is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.
Smith WigglesworthConflict can be seen as a gift of energy, in which neither side loses and a new dance is created.
Thomas CrumPresident Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office
Tom AllenI was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.
Yo GottiThere are few things more subtly distressing than an inappropriate gift from someone close to you.
Anatole BroyardOne single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
David Steindl-RastThe unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.
Eugene WignerWhen someone offends me, I think it's a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.
Ibn TaymiyyahThe things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.
Krista TippettTime itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously.
Maya AngelouEvery morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!
Nhat HanhThe only gift is a portion of thyself . . . the poet brings his poem; the shepherd his lamb. . . .
Ralph Waldo EmersonVerily, great grace may go with a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.
TheocritusEven to a wicked man a divinity gives wealth, Cyrnus, but to few men comes the gift of excellence.
Theognis of MegaraGod gave me the same power He gave Jesus. I ask myself daily, Why do I waste such a priceless gift?
Francis ChanThe pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.
Janet JacksonWhen you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.
Joyce DeWittRejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!
Kathy IrelandIt is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural.
Margery SharpArt is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
MichelangeloWhen someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.
Patrick RothfussYou can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.
Sophie HannahLoving service anonymously given may be unknown to man-but the gift and the giver are known to God.
Thomas S. MonsonAlle Dinge sind Gift, und nichts ist ohne Gift. Allein die Dosis macht, daß ein Ding kein Gift ist.
Paracelsus, Philippus Aureolus TheophrastusThe 1920s are the decade that signaled the arrival of a gift that still means a lot to us: Saturday.
Amity ShlaesIt isn't until you forgive what's in the past that you'll be able to receive the gift of the present
Andy AndrewsWhat good are Greek, commentaries, insight, gift, and all the rest, if there is no heart for Christ?
Jim ElliotOur talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God
Leo BuscagliaWhen you have a special gift you don't realize it because you think everyone else has the same gift.
Michael JacksonTalent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.
Paulo CoelhoRings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWater holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.
Tommy BoltGift in den Händen eines Weisen ist ein Heilmittel. Ein Heilmittel in den Händen des Toren ist Gift.
Casanova, GiacomoBlessed 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. Votes: 3 Thomas Hughes
You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift. Votes: 3 John R. Rice
Giving is a really big thing around Christmas, as well it should be. Christmas is about giving, and it all stems from the greatest gift the world has ever received - the gift of Jesus Christ. Votes: 3 Monica Johnson
While salvation is a free gift, the 'winning Christ' can only be through unreserved consecration and unquestioning obedience. Nor is this a hardship, but the highest privilege. Votes: 4 Hudson Taylor
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Votes: 2 Thomas Jefferson
Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united. Votes: 2 Norman Vincent Peale
Israel knew that there was no greater gift than to be given God's name, but that gift was a frightening reality that threatened to consume her. Israel, who would be tempted by the idolatrous presumption she possessed God's name, rightly never forgot she could not say God's name. Votes: 1 Stanley Hauerwas
God gave us the gift of life in heaven. Many people are given this gift, but they never open it. They never do anything with it. Votes: 4 Rick Warren
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. Votes: 1 Thomas Hardy
One of the many misconceptions about the blind is that they have greater hearing, sense of smell and sense of touch than sighted people. This is not strictly true. Their blindness simply forces them to recognize gifts they always had but had heretofore largely ignored. Votes: 1 Rosemary Mahoney
Do you know what laughter is? I'll tell you. It's God's mistake. When God made man in order to bend him to his wishes he carelessly gave him the gift of laughter. Votes: 3 Elie Wiesel
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Votes: 5 Voltaire
The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention. Votes: 2 Rick Warren
Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world. Votes: 4 Maeve Binchy
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Votes: 1 Virginia Woolf
Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago. Votes: 1 Erma Bombeck
I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man. Votes: 2 Jake Owen
To be alone with Jesus in adoration and intimate union with Him is the Greatest Gift of Love - the tender love of Our Father in Heaven. Votes: 3 Mother Teresa
Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? Votes: 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself. Votes: 1 Walter Anderson
When you know in your bones that your body is a sacred gift, you move in the world with an effortless grace. Gratitude and humility rise up spontaneously. Votes: 3 Debbie Ford
I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift. Votes: 1 Shirley Bassey