Natural Gifts Quotes

• Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press

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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

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  Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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• For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

  Martin Luther

  Nature, Tree, Earth Day

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• Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

  John C. Maxwell

  Vision, Desire, Looks

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “The Maxwell Daily Reader: 365 Days of Insight to Develop the Leader Within You and Influence Those Around You”, p.25, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

  Quintilian

  Useless, Natural

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Love, Inspirational, Nature

  "Trees" l. 1 (1913)

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  The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Hope

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Carlyle (1841). “Essays”, p.4

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• Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

  Ray Davies

  Motivational, Inspiration, Imagination

  Song: Natural Gift, Album: Think Visual

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• If you're always looking at someone else, trying to imitate them, how can your natural gifts ever emerge?

  Richard Bach

  Trying, Natural, Ifs

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• Our natural gifts and abilities are limited, but when augmented by inspiration and guidance of the Holy Ghost, our potential increases many fold.

  James E. Faust

  Inspiration, Ghost, Guidance

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• There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.

  Demosthenes

  Trust, Country, Mind

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• The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them.

  Stephen Neal

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts.  Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.

  Tony Dungy

  People, Giving, Effort

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• The child learns so easily because he has a natural gift, but adults, because they are tyrants, ignore natural gifts and say that children must learn through the same process that they learned by. We insist upon forced mental feeding and our lessons

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Children, Tyrants, Adults

  Rabindranath Tagore (2009). “The Oxford India Tagore: Selected Writings on Education and Nationalism”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The good teacher discovers the natural gifts of his pupils and liberates them by the stimulating influence of the inspiration that he can impart. The true leader makes his followers twice the men they were before.

  Stephen Neill

  Teacher, Inspiration, Men

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• Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this. Place no hope in the inspirational preachers of Christian sunshine, who are able to pick you up and set you back on your feet and make you feel good for three or four days-until you fold up and collapse into despair. Self-confidence is a precious natural gift, a sign of health. But it is not the same thing as faith. Faith is much deeper, and it must be deep enough to subsist when we are weak, when we are sick, when our self-confidence is gone, when our self-respect is gone.

  Thomas Merton

  Christian, Spiritual, Sunshine

  Thomas Merton (2003). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.190, Shambhala Publications

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• I think that sexuality is only attractive when it’s natural and spontaneous. This is where a lot of them miss the boat. And then something I’d just like to spout off on. We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift. Art, real art, comes from it, everything.

  Marilyn

  Crush, Art, Real

  "When you're famous you run into human nature in a raw kind of way" by Richard Meryman, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2007.

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• Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Exercise, Men, Silence

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• I had no natural gift to be anything - not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches - not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.

  Paul Newman

  Athlete, Garden, Directors

  The Daily News, June 10, 1991.

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• I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

  Thomas Horn

  Thinking, People, Way

  "Thomas Horn's incredibly fast start to career" by Jessica Zack, www.sfgate.com. January 15, 2012.

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• The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much the same way you nourish the gift of writing - you read, think, talk, look, listen, hate, fear, love, weep - and bring all of your life like a sieve to what you read. That which is not worthy of your gift will quickly pass through, but the gold remains.

  Katherine Paterson

  Hate, Book, Reading

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• I think leadership is both a trained thing and a natural gift.

  Colin Powell

  Thinking, Natural

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• I love being a pavement artist; seriously, I do. It's like when guys who would normally hate being freakishly tall discover basketball, or when girls with abnormally long fingers sit down at a piano. Blending in, going unseen, being a shadow in the sun is what I'm good at. Seeing the shadows, it turns out, is not my natural gift.

  Ally Carter

  Basketball, Girl, Hate

  Ally Carter (2011). “Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy”, p.45, Hachette UK

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• A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.

  Yi-Fu Tuan

  Beauty, Generosity, Appreciate

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