Greatest Gifts Quotes - Page 6

• Tobacco is America's greatest gift to the world!

  David Hockney

  America, World, Tobacco

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• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cycling

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.372, The Floating Press

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• The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Education, Reading, Passion

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• One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.

  Ace Frehley

  Daughter, Mother, I Love My Daughter

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• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• 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

  Sports, Fitness, Workout

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• I thank my parents for the greatest gift of all: poverty

  Roberto Benigni

  Inspirational, Parent, Poverty

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• You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

  Kenny Rogers

  Thinking, People, Done

  "American Morning", www.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.

  Anthony Braxton

  Discipline, World, Students

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• One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

  Criss Jami

  Emotional, Perspective, Understanding

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.116, Criss Jami

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• Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.

  David O. McKay

  Men, Next, Life Is

  Improvement Era Magazine, p. 86, February, 1962.

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• The greatest gift you can give to others is to fulfill YOUR potential, so that you can show them how to fulfill theirs.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Giving, Shows

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Sep 12, 2015

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• The people of the United States don't recognize it, but the oil industry has given the greatest gift to the people of the nation, and that gift is the low cost of energy. Bottom line is this enables the country to be very competitive manufacturing-wise and in the world economy.

  Ray L. Hunt

  Wise, Country, Oil

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• God's greatest gift to you is your unlimited potential. Your greatest gift to God is to use that potential to the fullest.

  James Arthur Ray

  Unlimited Potential, Use, Unlimited

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• Mankind's greatest gift... is that we have free choice.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Choices, Mankind, Free Choice

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• I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

  Uma Thurman

  Mother, Given, Adore

  "Uma Thurman says her life is like a reality TV show as she promotes new movie The Life Before Her Eyes". www.mirror.co.uk. March 27, 2009.

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• I always tell people I'm grateful for my cancer diagnosis because it was the greatest gift because it completely changed my life. I was able to stop and let my whole life and world just crash over me like a wave. And I stood there and went, 'Wow.' And for the first time, I stopped everything. I had to.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Cancer, Grateful, People

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• If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

  Saint Augustine

  Prayer, Heart, Desire

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• So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.

  Tim Cook

  Pride, Gay, Proud

  "Tim Cook Speaks Up". www.bloomberg.com. October 30, 2014.

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• I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Children, Thinking

  "Holistic Politics: A Conversation with Marianne Williamson". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. 1999.

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• Pure love is who you are! When you express pure love, you give yourself the direct experience of who you are. It is the greatest gift! It looks as if your giving a gift to others, and you are giving it to yourself, that is because there is no one else in the room, it only looks as if there is.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love You, Love Is, Giving

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.134, Penguin

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• The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.

  JJ Feild

  Children, Giving, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  Lying, Fate, Two

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• I think one of the greatest gifts you can give to someone is just access to the possibility of freedom that you don't have to be totally depressed and enslaved by your own environment.

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Giving, Environment

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

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• Helping others isn't a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.

  Liya Kebede

  Helping Others, Helping, Chores

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