"Some people have a knack of putting upon you gifts of no real value, to engage you to substantial gratitude. We thank them for nothing."

"Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction"

"To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed."

"I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn't hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I've worked hard at trying to look my best."

"You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift."

"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence."

"I think humor is the best gift, and if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?"

"I celebrate Hanukkah. Anything with gifts is good."

"The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed and not be self-conscious."

"Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another."

"When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb."

"Seeing people as innocent is the greatest gift you can give another human being: the gift of acceptance."

"If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet."

"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."

"Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge."

“I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth.” 

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

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with some kind of an inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises that normal listeners do not perceive.

“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

"What greater gift than the love of a cat."

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.