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Gift Quotes

"I always try to give my songs as gifts."

Dan Fogelberg, American Musician

Gift, Gifts, Songs

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"When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons."

John Webster, English Playwright

Gift, Gifts, Hell

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"Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly."

Loretta Young, American Actress

Gift, Gifts, Tears

"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock."

Walter Benjamin, German Critic

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

Charles Dudley Warner, American Journalist

Gift, Excellence, Lies, Value

"I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure."

Princess Diana, British Royalty

Gift, Gifts, Want

"The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace."

John Owen, English Theologian

Gift, Gifts, Grace, May, Windows

"You were born on this planet with a definite purpose and the entire world is in need of the gift you have."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Gift, World, Need, Purpose

"Each one of us is endowed with specific sacred-skill."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Gift, Sacred, Skill, Potential

"Everyone has got something to gift. Your gift lies in the flame of your soul."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Gift, Flame, Soul, Life

"It is a natural gift I was born with but it's something I've had to nurture in training."

Michael East, American Athlete

"However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing."

Adam Clarke, British Theologian

Gift, Gifts, Man, Nothing, Now

"Your uniqueness is the greatest gift you will ever receive in life."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Gift, Uniqueness, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

"I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship."

Michael W. Smith, American Musician

Gift, Gifts, Leading, Worship

"Each person has a sacred potential for a specific purpose."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Gift, Sacred, Potential, Purpose

"Whatever the item is that I have chosen to give you, it is nothing more than the receptacle within which I have placed the whole of myself. If it is empty, it is not a gift."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Gift, Life, Power, Truth

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

Edward Sapir, American Scientist

Gift, Gifts, Resentment, Unconscious

"Each soul has special gift. Find your gift for the specific service."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Gift, Soul, Service, Discovery

"Gift ain't what you take by effort, as swag ain't what you worthy have."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Gift, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

"A woman's gifts will make room for her."

Hattie McDaniel, American Actress

Gift, Gifts, Will, Woman

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