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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• ...and I wonder if there is any way to adequately describe the folly that causes us to undo all the great gifts of both Earth and Heaven.

  James Lee Burke

  Heaven, Earth, Way

  James Lee Burke (2002). “Jolie Blon's Bounce: A Novel”, p.327, Simon and Schuster

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• I know that my voice has entered into the hearts of many people and has caused beautiful reactions. Some, hearing me sing, have become more religious; some who were ill felt joy; friends, while in hospital, played my tapes whenever they felt ill; they all said that my voice gave them the strength needed to stand the pain. Therefore, how can I not be thankful for this great gift?

  Renata Tebaldi

  Beautiful, Religious, Pain

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• If you can get good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Destroying, Ifs

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• There are two great gifts which God, in his love for man, has granted from on high: the priesthood and the imperial dignity.

  Justinian I

  Men, Two, His Love

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• The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life not lived in truth,' Berg writes, 'is a life forfeited.' In this latest work, Elizabeth Berg has poured her own great gifts and her own great heart into the story of a woman determined to refuse any such forfeiture, no matter the cost.

  Leah Hager Cohen

  Dream, Writing, Heart

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• This Windows 95 hairball has become so big, so unmanageable, so hard to use, so hard to configure, so hard to keep up and running, so hard to keep secure. Windows 95 is a great gift to give your kid this Christmas because it will keep your kid fascinated for months trying to get it up and running and trying to figure out how to use it.

  Scott McNealy

  Running, Kids, Giving

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• Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Powerful, Ignorance

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• I've actually been given a great gift. When I walk into an audition with a director, I'm carrying no baggage. They haven't seen me in anything, even though I've done nine films.

  Jessica Chastain

  Directors, Done, Nine

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• You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And that is a great gift: the gift of selfhood. For we have only what we know we must lose, what we are willing to lose... That selfhood which is our torment, and our treasure, and our humanity, does not endure. It changes; it is gone, a wave on the sea. Would you have the sea grow still and the tides cease, to save one wave, to save yourself?

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Men, Sea, Forever

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Farthest Shore: Book Three”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• The one great gift to humankind from our nuclear physicists has been the nuclear bomb. How can we ever thank them?

  Edward Abbey

  Nuclear, Bombs, Physicist

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels; you give freely; and you count sacrifice a bargain… those gifts are truly great which are given simply for the joy they bring to another heart.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Heart, Sacrifice, Giving

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• The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think. Things can go back, and things can go to the side, and things can go to places where we might not even have been on guard that they might go. I think that if there is a great gift that this [Donald Trump] election gave us, is this sort of sense of vigilance, the sense that we have to remain on guard. We have to support our free press.

  Ben H. Winters

  Reality, Thinking, Support

  Source: www.slate.com

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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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• Girls' hearts flourish in homes where they are seen and invited to become ever more themselves. Parents who enjoy their daughters are giving them and the world a great gift. Mothers in particular have the opportunity to offer encouragement to their daughters by inviting them into their feminine world and by treasuring their daughters' unique beauty.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.99, Thomas Nelson Inc

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

  Joel Goodman

  Chance

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• The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.

  Steven Biko

  Military, Giving, Faces

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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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• A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Meditation, Conquer, Dharma

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• I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man.

  Jake Owen

  Daughter, Mother, Selfish

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• Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.

  Julie Andrews

  Book, Favorites Things

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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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