Quote by Brené Brown

Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the…

— Brené Brown

It's not the gifts you don't have that hold you back as much as the gifts you do have that you don't use.

— Orrin Woodward

“Gifts are very useful to con men. Gifts create a feeling of debt, an itchy anxiety that the recipient is eager to be rid…

— Holly Black

If others don't use their gifts, you get cheated, and if you don;t use your gifts, they get cheated.

— Rick Warren

I think it's a great tragedy of childhood that you only really appreciate it once it's done: it's very hard to feel appreciative of…

— Greta Gerwig

“An encounter with generosity can remind us that life always overflows our attempts to reduce it to a commodity or a transaction—because it is…

— Makoto Fuijmura

“What does happen is that if we give them a gift, we will trigger a feeling of indebtedness—a feeling of indebtedness that they’ll want…

— Susan M. Weinschenk

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

— Edward Sapir

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes…

— Anonymous

Sometimes the humanrace is given absolutely marvellous gifts, and we take those gifts and squanderthem just because we are human beings. This is all…

— Stuart Adamson

Every day, we are given countless opportunities to offer our gifts to those at work, in our families, our relationships… If you give less…

— Wayne Muller

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can…

— Andrew Weil