My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison Keillor

A gift of truth is the gift of love.
David Icke

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Beauty is the lover's gift.
William Congreve

Freedom is such a gift.
Ryan Gosling

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.
Earl Wilson

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.
Mike Ditka

When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.
Lester B. Pearson

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Robert Collier

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.
Truman Capote

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
John Ruskin

I know now what this meant, that the bison were the gift of a good spirit and were our strength, but we should lose them, and from the same good spirit we must find another strength.
Black Elk

Peace is our gift to each other.
Elie Wiesel

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.
Mary J. Blige