Gift Quotes
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Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it's like breathing.
Judith Jamison
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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Give yourself the gift of uninterrupted time. It can be the first hour of your day. Or the last hour. A lunch hour. You want time free from phone calls, visitors, mail, things to read. Unplug the phone if you have to. Lock your door. Put a sign on it that warns people of the consequences of entering. Do what you have to and watch the results. One hour of uninterrupted time can double a person's productivity for the day.
Geri Larkin
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A man can't understand how a woman feels--how she can offer up her entire life to him. The man thinks she's bringing him a burden. He doesn't understand that she's trying to give him a gift.
Brian Morton
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Being able to work on projects that I love and care about has been the greatest gift ever, and that's been a pretty recent thing in my life. But success for me at some point will probably be having a family.
Emma Stone
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Like the minor poet who knows the meanness of his gift, I am doomed to a lifetime of frustration: to be able to comprehend beauty, but not create it.
Elizabeth Bear
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Love is a gift of one's inner most soul to another so both can be whole.
Gautama Buddha
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You have the gift of a brilliant internal guardian that stands ready to warn you of hazards and guide you through risky situations.
Gavin de Becker
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Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.
Nikola Tesla
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I know I always carry her with me, and to have a piece of her grace shine through me is a gift I will continually strive to earn.
Esther Earl
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What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him
Chinmayananda Saraswati
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Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.
Homer
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Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.
Brennan Manning
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... the weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him, and which, worthily used, will be a gift also to his race forever.
John Ruskin
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When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience.
Joyce DeWitt
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Courage is the gift of character.
Euripides
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This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.
Elisabeth Elliot
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Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.
Brian Swimme
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Sense of self, and the way one shares it, is perhaps the most valuable and poetic gift in the arsenal of one's life and craft.
Sean Penn
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The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow.
George Eliot
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Honesty can be a dirty gift.
Colin Cotterill
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Freedom is such a gift.
Ryan Gosling
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My horse needs to be quiet enough not to draw my attention. You want your horse always aware of you. Be aware of your horse! Fidgeting? Direct that! Think of it as a gift. Do something with that energy; redirect it or it will be a negative. Don't let your horse check-out. A horse wants peace. Trade movement for peace.
Buck Brannaman
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Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.
Elizabeth Goudge