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

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.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

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

Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
Walter Ulbricht

Gifts make slaves.
Levi Strauss