Gift
The greatest gift we can give to our children is a healthy planet.
Author: Jane GoodallTopics: Famous, Gift, Greatest
I think the greatest gift you can give your children is your time.
Author: Brad PittTopics: Famous, Gift, Greatest
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.
Author: Nikola TeslaTopics: Experiences, Famous, Gift
I wasn’t the most gifted player, but I had a lot of heart.
Author: Larry BirdTopics: Famous, Gift, Heart
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development.
Author: Jim RohnTopics: Famous, Gift, Greatest
The love of a mother is the greatest gift of all.
Author: Queen VictoriaTopics: Famous, Gift, Great
So passed away Sorrow the Undesired – that intrusive creature, that bastard gift of shameless Nature who respects not the social law; a waif to whom eternal Time had been a matter of days merely, who knew not that such things as years and centuries ever were; to whom the cottage interior was the universe, the week’s weather climate, new-born babyhood human existence, and the instinct to suck human knowledge
Author: Thomas HardyTopics: Creature, Famous, Feelings, Gift, Knowledge, Life, Meaningful, Passed, Respect, Shameful, Universe
The prophet’s mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world – a sacred gift to man
Author: Thomas CampbellTopics: Famous, Feelings, Flight, Gift, Life, Meaningful
O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow’s children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichTopics: Children, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Gift, Life, Meaningful, Positive
In a world of scripts and stages, authenticity is the actor’s greatest gift to the audience
Author: A. J. BuckleyTopics: Actors, Gift, Script, Scripture, Workout, Works, World
Happiness is the gift of friends; it is born out of human relationships
Author: A. C. BensonTopics: Friends, Friendship, Gift, Happiest, Happiness, Happy, Happy ending, Human, Human activities, Human behavior, Human Being, Relations, Relationship
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention
Author: A. C. BensonTopics: Gift, Great, Pure entertainment, Pure ideals, Purity
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When I cried inconsolably through my first hour of life, my tears were her inspiration. Shaking her head sympathetically at Mother, the fairy touched my nose. “My gift is obedience. Ella will always be obedient. Now stop crying, child.” I stopped.
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Children, Famous, Gift, Inspiration, Mother, Obedient
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Famous, Gift, Inspirational, Life, Love, Meaningful, Positive, Purity
Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean
Author: Thomas a KempisTopics: Deserves, Dignity, Famous, Favor, Feelings, Gift, Life, Meaningful, Thankful, Value
Freedom is such a gift.
Author: Ryan GoslingTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Gift, Life, Meaningful
For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.
Author: Gad SaadTopics: Famous, Gift, Giving, Implications, Reciprocity, Ritual, Social Bonding, Social Significance, Universal
When Charity is deeply rooted in the soul it shows itself exteriorly: there is so gracious a way of refusing what we cannot give, that the refusal pleases as much as the gift
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Charity, Famous, Feelings, Gift, Life, Meaningful, Refusing, Soul
Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Famous, Friends, Gift, Life, Meaningful, Suffering
It is a great gift indeed to love who you are.
Author: K. A. ApplegateTopics: Famous, Gift, Great, Love
Language is our most powerful tool and our greatest gift.
Author: A. B. YehoshuaTopics: Gift, Great, Landing, Language, Powerful, Powerful aspiration, Powerful Being
He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind’s eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: Concentration, Famous, Gift, Imagination, Leadership, Military, Positive Visualization, Success
Saints are what they are not because their sanctity makes them admirable to others, but because the gift of sainthood makes it possible for them to admire everyone else
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Admire, Everyone, Famous, Feelings, Gift, Meaningful, Possible, Saint, Sainthood, Sanctity
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard
Author: Jeff BezosTopics: Choices, Famous, Gift, Meaningful
The gift of love is the gift of the power and capacity to love, and therefore, to give love with full effect is also to receive it. So love can only be kept by being given away, and it can only be given perfectly when it is also received
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Capacity, Effect, Famous, Feelings, Gift, Kept, Life, Love, Meaningful, Perfectly, Positive, Power, Receive, Received
Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. … And on its material side, a modern Utopia must needs present these gifts as taken.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Devices, Famous, Gift, Modern, Present, Resources, Servant, Stupidity
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Topics: Computers, Famous, Gift, Play, Present, Years
Every breath we draw is a gift of God’s love; every moment of existence is a grace.
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Breath, Draws, Existence, Famous, Gift, God, Grace, Life, Love, Meaningful, Moment, Positive
I never really thought of myself as someone who was gifted.
Author: Gabriella WilsonTopics: Famous, Gift, Never, Thoughts
Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.
Author: Gabriela Mistral
Topics: Famous, Gift, Hours, Inspirational, Spirit
It is very, very important that I take them back to Ireland every year. It’s so easy to get caught up in the mass culture here. It’s important that they know they have another tradition and a heritage that is a gift to them.
Author: Gabriel ByrneTopics: Caught, Easy, Famous, Gift, Heritage, Important, Mass culture, Traditions
In life, there are no guarantees, but taking risks is the only way to truly live.
Author: Gabriel ByrneTopics: Famous, Forget, Forgiveness, Gift, Greatest, Inspirational, Motivational, Past mistakes
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
Author: Robert Louis StevensonTopics: Famous, Friend, Gift, Yourself
The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector.
Topics: Built, Detective, Determination, Essential, Established, Gift, Good, Lesson, Letting go, Write
Peace is our gift to each other.
Author: Elie Wiesel
Topics: Feel, Feeling, feeling of confidence, Gift, Natural things, Naturally, Nature, Nature of love, Nature of success, Open-mindedness, Opening, Peace, Peaceful
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 would be curiosity.
Author: Eleanor RooseveltTopics: Child, Curiosity, Endowed, Famous, Gift, Inspirational, Meaningful, Mother, Useful
The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son.
Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Famous, Feelings, Gift, Life, Meaningful, Perfect, Perfect Chaos
I won’t ever shy away from a fight and if it makes sense down the road, I’ll do it. But it will be on my terms.
Author: Conor McGregor
Topics: Fight, Fighting, Gift, Roads, Sense, Sense of Achievement, Sense of annoyance
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift.
Author: Richard BachTopics: Famous, Gift, Problem
Love’s gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.
Author: Rabindranath TagoreTopics: Famous, Gift, Meaningful
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Famous, Gift, Life, Meaningful, Purpose
Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don’t be afraid to be the best.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Courage, Famous, Gift, Talent, Universal
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
Author: Dante AlighieriTopics: Famous, Fate, Gift, Meaningful
We who are saved find rest in Jesus. Those who are not saved will receive rest if they come to Him, for here He promises to “give” it. Nothing can be freer than a gift; let us gladly accept what He gladly gives. You are not to buy it, nor to borrow it, but to receive it as a gift.
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Gift, Giving up, Glad, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Relief, Religion, Religious Differences, Responsibility, Rest
Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
Author: Charles Dickens
Topics: Delight, Gift, Happiness, Happy, Real Trick, Real-Life, Realized, Really, Reason
The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
Author: BuddhaTopics: Famous, Gift, Greater, Greatest, Grew Up, Life, Share
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
Author: Martin LutherTopics: Famous, Gift, God, Meaningful, Music
An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Culture, Famous, Gift, Human, Ideal, Meaningful, Place
You have a gift that only you can give the world – that’s the whole reason you’re on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: Celebrates, Energy, Gift, Magnificence, Magnificently, Planet, Planets, Precious, Reason, World
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
Author: Oprah WinfreyTopics: Challenges, Force, Gift, Gravity
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
Author: Niccolo MachiavelliTopics: Famous, Gift, Meaningful, Reality
There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to helping others without expecting anything in return.
Author: Nelson MandelaTopics: Energy, Famous, Gift, Greater, Helping, Inspirational, Meaningful
At the intersection where your gifts, talents, and abilities meet a human need; therein you will discover your purpose
Author: AristotleTopics: Famous, Feelings, Gift, Life, Meaningful, Talent
The multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine.
Author: Baruch SpinozaTopics: Divine, Famous, Gift, Knowledge, Meaningful, Natural World, Nature, Rare, Rarely
I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it. You don’t know what hand your gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you… to make each day count.
Author: Leonardo Di CaprioTopics: Famous, Gift, Inspirational, Life, Mindfulness
To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves
Author: Aldous HuxleyTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Gift, Happiness, Hard, Important, Improvement, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, See, Self Belief
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
Topics: Clever, Curiosity, Curious, Especially, Experiences, Famous, Gift, Inspirational, Life, MeaningfulThe 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.
Author: Albert EinsteinTopics: Clear-Minded, Experiences, Faith, Faithfulness, Famous, Forget, Gift, Meaningful, Mind
The Uses Of Sorrow (In my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.
Author: Mary OliverTopics: Darkness, Gift, Loved, Poem, Sorrow
Come with me into the woods where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.
Author: Mary OliverTopics: Gift, Particular, Singular, Visible
I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.
Author: Myles MunroeTopics: Gift, Greatest Gift, Heat, Visions
No matter how many people celebrate your gifts, don’t ever think that you are more important to them than your gift is to them. This is why many people fail: They fail because they think that people came to follow them.
Author: Myles MunroeTopics: Celebrates, Fail, Gift, People
Friendship is not a gift, but is the result of hard work.
Author: Myles MunroeTopics: Famous, Friendship, Gift, Hard, Hard Work, result
Your job is your skill that they can fire you from at any time. But your work is your gift. No one can take that from you.
Author: Myles MunroeTopics: Gift, Job, Skill, Time
The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.
Author: Lady GagaTopics: Capabilities, Car, Expensive, Fame, Family, Famous, Fulfillment, Gift, Materialism, Parents, Sentiment
Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
Author: Michelle ObamaTopics: Father, Gift, People, Time
We were together. I forget the rest.
Author: Walt WhitmanTopics: Couple, Deep, Emotion, Enjoyment, Express, Facts, Feelings, Gift, Happiness, Heart, Joy, Life, Love, Precious, Relationship
For my part, I try to do my bit to make people’s lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.
Author: Lionel MessiTopics: Care, Children, Contributions, Decision, Desire, Effort, Famous, Gift, Help, Human, Life, Love, Meaningful, Motivational, Opportunity, Social Work