Love the giver more than the gift.
Brigham Young

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.
Carl Sandburg

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas Carlyle

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

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
Jose Marti

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

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.
Steven Biko

The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention.
Julia Margaret Cameron

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola

Beauty is a fragile gift.
Ovid

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.
Christina Aguilera

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
Barbara de Angelis

Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
Barbara de Angelis

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
Bruce Barton

Conceit is God's gift to little men.
Bruce Barton

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.
Morgan Freeman

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
Charles de Montesquieu

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Stanislaw Lec