Great Gifts Quotes

• To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  "Pre: Americas Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine". Book by Tom Jordan, 1977.

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

  Jim Valvano

  Inspirational, Basketball, Daughter

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• The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

  Thomas Morell

  Inspirational, Example, Firsts

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• Humor is such a great gift - why leave it to chance?

  Joel Goodman

  Chance

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• I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

  George Best

  Sometimes, Born, Streaks

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• I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

  Edmund Hillary

  Thinking, World, Want

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• All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Imagination, Mind, Forget

  "The Dagger with Wings: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1926.

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• One of yoga's great gifts to making is the discovery of the link that exists between energy, breath, and mind. As you change one, you also change the other two. If you excite one, the other two become excited and, conversely, if you calm one, the other two respond by becoming calm also.

  John Novak

  Yoga, Discovery, Breathing

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• A great gift is an answer waiting for a question.

  Kevin Kling

  Waiting, Answers

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• The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Creativity, Long, Grace

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• The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

  Jim Rohn

  Knowledge, Imagination, Limits

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 16, 2015

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• I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Boss, Ants

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• Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

  Dan Chaon

  Mean, Perspective, Empathy

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

  Lady Jane Grey

  Heart, Eye, Utterance

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• I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

  Ann Brashares

  Children, Reading, Parent

  The ABC NEWS Interview, abcnews.go.com.

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• Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.

  Susan Sullivan

  Wise, Character, Opportunity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

  James Young

  Discipline, Guy, Mind

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• Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

  William Ernest Henley

  Stars, Sleep, Night

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley, Sir Graham Balfour (1903). “The amateur emigrant. Across the plains. The silverado squatters”

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• O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Lonely, Fall, Heart

  Delmore Schwartz, “All Night, All Night”

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• Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and feeling about things, that is like nobody else’s. If so much as a single one of you were missing, there would be an empty place at the great feast of life that nobody else in all creation could fill.

  Frederick Buechner

  Giving, Missing, Feelings

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• One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

  Ray Manzarek

  Oneness, Humans, Human Beings

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• You don't have to have a great gift for God to use it in a great way.

  Joel Osteen

  Use, Way

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• Books make great gifts because... [they don't] come in any particular size, so you don't have to be embarrassed if you bought somebody the wrong size.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Book, Size, Embarrassed

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• There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Long, Quality, World

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• Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in.

  Alec Baldwin

  Book, Plugs

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