Gifts Quotes

  • A beggar will always be a beggar even if they give him the whole world as a gift. ~ Iranian Proverb
  • A hug is a great gift - one size fits all, and it’s easy to exchange. ~ Author Unknown
  • A little given seasonably excuses a great gift. ~ George Herbert
  • A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver. ~Thomas a Kempis
  • Change always comes bearing gifts. ~ Price Pritchett
  • Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money. ~ Author Unknown
  • Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. ~ Ruth Ann Schabacker
  • Every day is a gift – even if it sucks. ~ Sherry Hochman
  • Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights. ~ The Holy Bible
  • Every day is a gift, that is why it is called the present. ~ Author Unknown
  • Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~ William A. Ward
  • Gift long expected is sold, not given. ~ Italian Proverb
  • Gifts make their way through stone walls. ~ Traditional Proverb
  • Gifts reflect those who give them. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Gifts should be handed, not thrown. ~ Danish Proverb
  • Giving gifts to the rich is like pouring water into the sea. ~ Russian Proverb
  • God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say “thank you?” ~William A. Ward
  • God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man’s hands. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
  • God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • He who gives a monkey as a present doesn’t keep hold of its tail. ~ Ivorian Proverb
  • He who was presented with an ox must give in return a horse. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • I give a present to the mother but I think of the daughter. ~ German Proverb
  • If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give. ~ George MacDonald
  • If you give a gift to a rich man, the devil sniggers. ~ French Proverb
  • It is difficult to repay the gifts you get at a wedding or a funeral. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • It isn’t the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it. ~ Author Unknown
  • Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. ~ Jean Anouilh
  • May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through! ~Author Unknown
  • Mutual gifts cement friendship. ~ Ivorian Proverb
  • Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas. ~ Kin Hubbard
  • One does not give a gift without a motive. ~ Malian Proverb
  • Peace is not God’s gift to his creatures. It is our gift to each other. ~ Elie Wiesel
  • Pleasure is spread through the earth. In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find. ~ William Wordsworth
  • Present to the eye, present to the mind. ~ Chinese Proverb
  • Small gifts go to places where men expect bigger ones. ~ Russian Proverb
  • Small gifts maintain friendship, big ones maintain love. ~ French Proverb
  • The best gift a father can give to his son is the gift of himself – his time. For material things mean little, if there is not someone to share them with. ~ Author Unknown
  • The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. ~ John Andrew Holmes
  • The devil always takes back his gifts. ~ Ukrainian Proverb
  • The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance. ~ Brian Tracy
  • The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. ~ Pierre Corneille
  • The only gift is a portion of thyself. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The size of the gift to an institution is not important. No gift is important, no matter how large, unless it means something to the one who gives it. ~ Blair Schreyer
  • The value of the gift is in the love of the giver. ~ Author Unknown
  • To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. ~Elwyn Brooks White
  • We make big promises to avoid little presents. ~ French Proverb
  • What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~ Eleanor Powell
  • When you reject gifts from heaven you will be rewarded in hell. ~ Japanese Proverb
  • Who gives me a little gift, he wishes that I live. ~ Author Unknown
  • Your talent is God’s gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God. ~ Leo Buscaglia
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