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Quotes including the word “gift”.

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Marcus Aurelius

Each day provides its own gifts.

Bach

What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Robert Burns

Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.

Calderon

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Marie Curie

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

Dante

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

Nikolai Gogol

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.”

Nadine Gordimer

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Horace

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Jose Martí

Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.

E.L. Masters,

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

Gabriela Mistral

Writing tends to cheer me; it always soothes my spirit and blesses me with the gift of an innocent, tender, childlike day. It is the sensation of having spent a few hours in my homeland, with my customs, free whims, my total freedom.

Boris Pasternak

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Pindar

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.0.99

Rousseau

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Sophocles

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Tagore

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Voltaire

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

Virginia Woolf

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Emile Zola

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.