A woman's gifts will make room for her.
Hattie McDaniel
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
Francis of Assisi
Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.
Katharine Hepburn
Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
Mary Pipher
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
Janet Erskine Stuart
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
Plato
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it's also the only gift that does not keep on giving.
Paulina Porizkova
Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.
Thomas Hughes
But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.
Sophocles
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great and who as a result earns the power to influence others.
Fredrik Bajer
Certainly tears are given to us to use. Like all good gifts, they should be used properly.
Loretta Young
Children remind us to treasure the smallest of gifts, even in the most difficult of times.
Allen Klein
Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity.
Charles Colson
Each day provides its own gifts.
Marcus Aurelius
Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.
Sophocles
Envy comes from people's ignorance of, or lack of belief in, their own gifts.
Jean Vanier
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Quintilian
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
Ed Miliband
From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.
Christie Hefner
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