Gift Quotes

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'

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 thinking.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

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.

Blessed, blessed is the True Guru, who has given the supreme gift of the Name of the Lord.

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.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.

Fidelity is a gift not a requirement.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

There is no greater love than this. There is no greater gift that can ever be given. To be willing to die, so another might live — there is no greater lover than this.

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.

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

I'll give you a gift." Too late, you're already there ... ("Je vais t'offrir un cadeau." - Trop tard: tu es déjà là ...)

Give an inch, he'll take an ell.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.