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| One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it. | | Maya Angelou | |
| People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things | | William Blake | |
| Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence--neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish--it is an imponderably valuable gift. | | Maya Angelou | |
| Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. | | Emile Zola | |
| The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The gifts of bad men bring no good with them. | | Euripides | |
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| The greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest. | | Buddha | |
| The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention. | | Anthony J. D'Angelo | |
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| The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. | | Albert Einstein | |
| The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience, but the gift of office is the dreadful burthen which oppresses him | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed | | Seneca | |
| There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. | | Richard Bach | |
| They (the days) come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party; but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
