gifts quotes

• Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning. (Ludwig van Beethoven) [right/gifts/god]
• Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. (Walter Benjamin) [gifts/point]
• If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you. () [gifts/willpower/take/willpower]
• I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom. () [life/journey/gifts]
• Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. (Miguel De Cervantes) [gifts/evil]
• We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men. (George Eliot) [women/danger/gifts/share]
• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [people/gifts/find]
• I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. (Anatole France) [value/gifts/life]
• Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love. (Thomas Fuller) [gifts/give/willpower/love]
• The most minor gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. (Katharine Hepburn) [gifts/high/class/age]
• An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. (Washington Irving) [nature/gifts/mind/forecasters]
• Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life. (Karl Kraus) [pleasure/gifts/education/christmas]
• Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts. ( Ovid) [gifts/men/gifts]
• All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. ( Plato) [willpower/quality/gifts/right]
• Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. (William Shakespeare) [gifts]
• The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. () [gifts/give/roots/responsibility]
• “I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment” (Frances Farmer) [gifts/love/exchange]
• “You get all these things, there are all these letters and gifts, sometimes strange ones; most of the time it can be really nice. But at the same time, it's overwhelming. Because I know I'm going to have to look through it. Most of it is filling the corners of my house and I can't respond to it all right away.” (Viggo Mortensen) [mail/gifts/strange/time]
• “I think everyone has gifts and everyone has talents. If you are successful at it, it feels really good but it never really penetrates completely.” (Gwen Stefani) [think/gifts]
• I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. (Gina Gershon) [love/gifts/love/gifts]
• The gifts of God should be enjoyed by all citizens in Mississippi. (Medgar Evers) [gifts/god]

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