Quotes about gifts

Rasheed Ogunlaru -

There is nothing you lack and all you will find we are one at the heart - just divided by mind. Don't let life pass you by.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption they are for other people’s liberation.

Sherwood Boehlert -

Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.

Antisthenes -

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Steve Maraboli - Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

There is a difference between talented people and gifted people.Talented people are good AT something Gifted people ARE that something.

Bai Ling -

I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

You are a lamp to give light to people you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don't hide your gifts expose and share them freely!

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Love is the greatest gift we can give to one another.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords

Leaders are not worried about what they can’t do they know themselves very well and focus on what they can do. Think this way if you are willing to lead!

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords

You have many gifts some will help you to connect the right people while others help you to get to the right places. But it takes your dominant gifts for you to be able to take the lead!

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords

You can’t lead if you don’t know what you were made for. You can’t know what you were made for if you don’t ask the one who made you! Know your creator know yourself!

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

The hills and mountains on your ways are going to be removed. But remember that’s what should happen when God gives you the shovel. Use your gifts it’s the escape route!

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Never worry about what others have worry about what you have and refuse to use. Someone else will also worry about what you have when you begin to make use of it!

Israelmore Ayivor -

Giving does not only preceed receiving it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive.

Arthur Conan Doyle - The Valley of Fear

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Toni Sorenson -

You don’t remember the gifts you are given you remember the giver and how their love made you feel.

Pablo Casals -

Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

Alan Cohen -

Real humility is not about denying the gifts you are offered it is accepting them.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

Look to yourself you've got a gold mine in you that must be exploited. Don’t exchange yourself for fear to trade on silver platter. You brought a load of gifts to the world use them and die empty!

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Find a vocation and passionately commit your life to it.

Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365

The tragedy in life to mourn over is the death of what lies within a person who is still alive. The death of a potential is a mess of destiny!

Laillah Gifty Akita -

Explore your special skills.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Do not waste your life, in search for a job.Use your special gifts to create work for yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Together, we can serve humanity with our unique passions, gifts and abilities.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Love your work and rejoice in all your accomplishments.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

It feels great to do what you love.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

What drives your passion?

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

You must fall in love with your job, over and over again, to own it.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Identify your divine gift and use it to serve humanity.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Find your passion and live your best life.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

What you do with ease is your passion.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Brightly burning passion is the releasing of your essence, your specialness and your gifts to the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

You ought to recognise your special talent, for your specific purpose.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana - Sweet Destiny

Loving someone doesn't mean you have to bow down to them or drop everything and run to their relentless calls. They must understand and love you enough to give you the respect that you deserve. Loving someone doesn't mean you have to shower them with gifts all the time. Give them your honesty, hope, joy, and encouragement on a daily basis.

Giorge Leedy - Uninhibited From Lust To Love

LET’S GO BACK HOMEI can't think about you,Without smiling.What I wouldn’t give,To go back there,Take you in my arms,Kiss you, And tell you,"I still love you."It's been three decades now,And still your smile's with me,Your wave goodbye, The love in your eyes, And everything else you gave me,Before that highway fog swept in,And stole your spirit away.Oh- to return by your side again, Fish beside the Pleasant Hill Dam,Hike through the Mayer's woods, Hang out on your big hill,Sleep naked in your twi

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Never look down upon yourself. You are special with special gift.

Brené Brown -

If you're thinking, 'Great! I just need to be a superhero to fight perfectionism,' I understand. Courage, compassion, and connection seem like big, lofty ideals. But in reality, they are daily practices that, when exercised enough, become these incredible gifts in our lives. And the good news is that our vulnerabilities are what force us to call upon these amazing tools. Because we're human and so beautifully imperfect, we get to practice using our tools on a daily basis. In this way, courage, c

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

I have diligently disciplined my life to search out life’s gifts in the places where life stores its scraps.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Success is a steadily progress.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Focus on your strength and maximum its potential.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Find your niche and occupy it.

H.G. Wells - Vols. I and II

Jesus was a penniless teacher who wandered about the dusty sun-bit country of Judea, living upon casual gifts of food; yet he is always represented clean, combed, and sleek, in spotless raiment, erect, and with something motionless about him as though he was gliding through the air. This alone has made him unreal and incredible to many people who cannot distinguish the core of the story from the ornamental and unwise additions of the unintelligently devout.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.

Toni Sorenson -

If you’re giving to get, all you’ll receive is disappointment. But if you’re giving to give, all you’ll receive is joy.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana - Release The Ink

In the Light of your Wisdom, You Shine. In the Midst of your Truth, Your Faith is Evident. From inside your Spirit, You are Love.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

We find happiness doing what we love.

Ann Voskamp - One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

Is the height of my chara joy dependent on the depths of my eucharisteo thanks?

John Waters -

I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don’t send a thank-you note, repay them with sexual activity. If the book is rare or by your favorite author or one you didn't know about, reward them with the most perverted sex act you can think of. Otherwise, you can just make out.

Jen Selinsky -

Literacy is one of the greatest gifts a person could receive

Anonymous -

Children are a gift from God.

Israelmore Ayivor -

I won't compete with anybody. I love to compete with my own body. When God closes a door against me, I should not attempt to bang on it. And if God gives me a key to open a door, I should not misuse that key!

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

We should live deeply and with delight for those who were cheated of life's gift.

Kamal Ravikant -

The insights we receive when going silent, it's our gift to ourselves. Returning and living them, sharing them, that is our gift to the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

A man begins to exist with a divine mission.

Anthony Liccione -

Don't let someone keep putting out the flame God keeps re-lighting, we all have a purpose. As a wing to a bird. As wind that goes the destiny over the sea.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Watchwords

Self-abuse is an infringement on one’s own destiny caused by either ignorance about oneself or negligence of one’s purpose!

bell hooks - All About Love: New Visions

Practically every mental health care practitioner, from the most erudite psychoanalysts to untrained self-help gurus, tell us that it is infinitely more fulfilling and we are all saner if we tell the truth, yet most of us are not rushing to stand up and be counted among the truth tellers. Indeed, as someone committed to being honest in daily life I experience the constant drag of being seen as a 'freak,' for telling the truth, even when I speak truthfully about simple matters. If a friend gives

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.

Ken Page -

Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

In a materialistic society, there’s no such a thing as a ‘romantic’ broke man.

Unarine Ramaru -

There isn't a soul in this universe with the same gifts, strength, level of intelligence and as good as yourself!

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The more you give of yourself, the more you find yourself.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

YOUR GREATER ANIMALThey say that if you areEver confronted byA lion or bear,To never act scared.Instead act likeYou are the greater animalAnd that they'reThe hareThat you are aboutTo tear.This has beenProvenAnd compared.This is how presidentsAre lovedAnd feared.Each one of us has an animalWithin usThat is armed withMental,Physical orSpiritual giftsThat could shoot spearsThrough the air.So next timeYou are confronted inA fight that seems unfair,Just remember the lion and the bear.MAGNIFYYour grea

Kate McGahan -

When you cling to something from the past, your hands cannot be open to receive the gifts of the future.

Jinat Rehana Begum - First Fires

Can you lose your inborn talents? Can the gifts you come into this world with be taken away without your even noticing? Maybe it’s my fault for wanting always to stem the fires within me? Perhaps there are some fires that should be allowed to rage on?

Tom Hayes -

The Wizard of Oz teaches us a valuable lesson about what makes a journey meaningful. It is not mere possession, but also awareness of our unique gifts that enables us to put them to use. We learn that conquering trepidation and taking that first step is the only way to come to self-awareness, master our talents, and seize opportunities to support each other to success.

Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus

Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There's magic in that. It's in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict. From the mundane to the profound. You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's

Aberjhani - Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves.

Stormie Omartian - Just Enough Light for the Step I'm On

One of the gifts we receive from Jesus is an entirely new foundation upon which to build our lives. Once you receive Him, He becomes your new foundation and every day you walk with Him, you build on it.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Plan and plant your gifts. Pray and play your role. The harvest is assured when God manifests his anointing power in your passionate actions.

Anna White - and Leaps of Faith

The most amazing thing is that all my sorrows, all of my darkest moments, are becoming my gifts.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Best gifts: love, prayer, books!

Sarah Holman - Distorted Glass: A Snow Queen Story

God offered the greatest and most wonderful gift freely, while we were still sinners. It is a gift for any and every one, no matter how broken, how far, or how dark. He didn’t require us to change before we came, but offered a way out while we were at our worst.

Jason Versey -

Are we bombs or balms? Let’s face it. Any time of year can bring happiness or hardships. Financial stress, marital/relational strife, and extended family dysfunction can all be compounding pressures that can make our tempers react and explode like a bomb. When we respond in this fashion it dramatically intensifies these already difficult situations and creates massive emotional destruction with the collateral damage always being the ones we say we love. It destroys, maims, and kills our relation

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Great leaders are most wanted. They are most wanted for what they do with their gifts and talents. Their dreams are so unique in such a way that their presence becomes a source of hope and courage for others to thread on along. Why won't they look for them?

Anna White - and Leaps of Faith

Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?

Jill D. Block -

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, I'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions.

Jill D. Block -

If I'd learned nothing else in my twenty-seven years on this planet, 'd learned that when someone gives you something totally unexpected and undeserved, you don't ask questions. (Dark City Lights)

Mark Darrah - A Catalogue of Common People

The wonderful thing about learning is that you deprive no one else by taking what you learn. The wonderful thing about teaching is that you don’t lose what you give away. Teaching is also the only gift you can give that will live on into eternity. Something you teach becomes another’s who teaches it to another and to another, and on and on and on.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life.

Navonne Johns -

Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

The creative mind is a divine force.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

I have what takes to get the job done.

Thomas Hughes -

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.

Renata Bowers - Frieda B. and the Finkledee Ink

And although Frieda B. didn't feel it inside, the belief of her friend gave her courage to try.

A. Dragonblood -

The beauty and gift of truth, is that it is not dependent upon your belief in order to remain true

Sarah Dessen - Lock and Key

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

Shannon L. Alder -

Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud.

Laurie R. King - The Beekeeper's Apprentice

I undid the wrappings with great curiosity, for Holmes did not normally give gifts. I opened the dark velvet jewller's box and found inside a shiny new set of picklocks, a younger version of his own. "Holmes, ever the romantic. Mrs. Hudson would be pleased.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips - Ain't She Sweet

You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.

Steve Maraboli - and Being Free

Finding happiness should not be seen as finding a needle in a haystack. Happiness is within. Each day is a blessing that brings an abundance of happiness. Therefore, finding happiness should be like finding a gift in a stack of gifts.

Charles Dickens -

What greater gift than the love of a cat.

Mandy Hale - and a Dash of Sass

If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colorful YOU.

David Nicholls - One Day

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

Lailah Gifty Akita -

We are what we.

Dejan Stojanovic -

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

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