Gift Quotes
3896 Gift quotes by 2331 unique authors
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I had to be frugal, thoughtful, resourceful. I didn't have anyone to tell me, 'You can't.' When you're young, you think you can do anything,…
— Sandra Lee
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It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these…
— Unknown Author
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Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.
— Stephen L. Carter
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Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor…
— Paulo Freire
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Let each man pass his days in that endeavor wherein his gift is greatest.
— Propertius
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Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.
— Lloyd D. Newell
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The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has…
— Steven Biko
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We have set out on a quest for true humanity, and somewhere on the distant horizon we can see the glittering prize. Let us march…
— Steven Biko
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The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person…
— Laurie Colwin
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I was born with a natural gift. My mother recognized the talent.
— Bernie Worrell
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I really feel like the gift is also the curse. It's always half-and-half. Whatever brings you the most joy will also probably bring you the…
— Alice Hoffman
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You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.
— Ian Brown
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The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact…
— Bill Crawford
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It's a precious thing to be communicating to children, helping them discover the gift of language and thought.
— Richard Scarry
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I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something…
— Marilyn
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By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish…
— Parker J. Palmer
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If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.
— Charlie Munger
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I think I was given a gift to play golf and to be mentally strong
— Karrie Webb
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I am fairly certain that my independent, high-spirited grandmother must have had a childhood similar to Betsy Ray'sAs I read about the School Entertainment and…
— Ann M. Martin
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The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
— Daniel Berrigan
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The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end…
— Edith Stein
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For any serious purpose, intelligence is a very minor gift.
— G. H. Hardy
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This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.
— Marion Woodman
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its…
— Albert J. Nock
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You are well equipped with an incredible potential for absorbing knowledge. Let your imagination, the key to learning and memory, unleash that brain power and…
— Dominic O'Brien
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