Gift Quotes
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angles, but am note nice, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but am not nice, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but am not nice, I gain nothing.
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I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift, so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.
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A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.
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Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.
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I believe that the confidence, really being okay with myself, and really being okay with my gift have grown over the years. It just came with time, and it came with getting my feelings hurt, a few times, and realizing to stop performing for people but if perform for God, who gave you the talent, then you can care less about what any casting directors, producers, or what any of them think. You're doing it for a higher purpose. If they don't like it, that's okay! God does.
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Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
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We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.
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Patience is a gift you have to work for.
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Not by wisdom do they poets make what they compose, but by a gift of nature and an inspiration similar to that of the diviners and the oracles.
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Literary education must follow the education of the hand -the one gift that distinguishes man from beast.
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The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
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But friends, those I wanted to please? There are so few, so few... and you're one of them. You... because you have such a gift for life. You grab hold of it with both hands. You move, you dance, you know how to make the rain and the sunshine in a home. You have this incredible gift for making people around you happy. You're so at ease, so at ease on this little planet.
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The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
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Thus Angels' Bread is made The Bread of man today: The Living Bread from Heaven With figures doth away: O wondrous gift indeed! The poor and lowly may Upon their Lord and Master feed.
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What we are is God’s gift to us; what we become is our gift to God.’ – Anon.
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Here's a guy Richard Nixon who had no gift for small talk, never liked to be around strangers, was physically awkward, and he goes into the one business that calls for ease with strangers and a gift for small talk.
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Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe that most people have some degree of talent for something--forms, colors, words, sounds. Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something.
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Are some free fonts a gift to humanity rather than a blight on typographic civilization?
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The child is the beauty of God present in the world, that greatest gift to a family
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Here’s my mantra: ‘Every mile is a gift.’
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There's no time like the present, No present like time. And life can be over in the space of a rhyme. There's no gift like friendship And no love like mine. Give me your love to treasure through time.
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When I was growing up my mother used to tell me that the best gift parents could give their children was to have a strong and loving relationship with each other.
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I want to continue to grow. To me, the biggest sin of all sins, is to be given a gift, a talent, because it's actually a gift from God, to take that and not cultivate it and make it grow, that's the biggest sin in the world.
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Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift.
