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Great Gift Quotes

These great gift quotes celebrate the unexpected blessings of life, from fearlessness and health to global icons and the gift of creative expression through words or music.

Not every gift comes wrapped. These quotes describe fearlessness, healing, and inspiration as the truly Value gifts that shape a life.

Every essential oil has a healing purpose, so I think it's a great gift because it's something that elevates your mood and your health.

Quotes by Yolanda Hadid

That's a great gift to be given, that feeling of no fear.

Quotes by W. S. Merwin

I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to...

Quotes by Teena Marie

The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial look, but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face.

Quotes by Steven Biko

Emotion Quotes

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

Quotes by Stanley Elkin

One of mom's greatest acts of generosity was that she trained me to be defiant. Her great gift to me was encouraging me to be the person that I wanted to be, not the one that she and my father...

Quotes by Ruth Reichl

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and...

Quotes by Rebecca Solnit

I was always admiring people who seemed to conduct themselves with ease in the world. Maybe that's a great gift to give your kids if you can do that. Because they can move through the world without neurosis, this anxiety...

Quotes by Peter Capaldi

Of course, Nelson Mandela, everybody knows Nelson Mandela. I mean, he's a great gift not only for Africa but for the whole world, actually. But do not expect everybody to be a Nelson Mandela.

Quotes by Mo Ibrahim

Gratitude Quotes

The great gift of 'Incarceration Nations' is that, by introducing a wide range of approaches to crime, punishment, and questions of justice in diverse countries - Rwanda, South Africa, Brazil, Jamaica, Uganda, Singapore, Australia and Norway - it forces us...

Quotes by Michelle Alexander

I think he would have been proud and smiling... when we laid him to rest because his family was together. I think that was a great gift to be able to give Dad at the end.

Quotes by Michael Reagan

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as...

Quotes by Leslie Marmon Silko

I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.

Quotes by John Legend

For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Quotes by Jennifer Lynch

Surprise Quotes

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.

Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

Quotes by Jane Grey

Being in the studio is okay but sitting in a room by yourself composing is a discipline that takes a certain type of mind set and Tommy has a great gift for that as did the previous guy.

Quotes by James Young

I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.

Quotes by Edmund Hillary

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

Quotes by Dave Matthews

Value Quotes

Golf has been such a gift in my life, and I've enjoyed it so much and enjoyed lots of wonderful times on the golf course with my husband first, and then I got to play in all these celebrity tournaments....

Quotes by Cheryl Ladd

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these quotes describe as a great gift?
A few different things - the feeling of having no fear, an essential oil that elevates mood and health, and the gift of words turned into music, with the speaker calling it a gift they never had to go out and look for.
Is there a quote calling a person a great gift?
Yes - one speaker describes Nelson Mandela as a great gift not only to Africa but to the whole world, while noting not everyone can be expected to reach that level.
Do any of these quotes connect gifts to health?
One does - it frames essential oils as a great gift because of how they can elevate both mood and health, giving the idea of a gift a wellness angle.
What does the quote about words and music say about being given a gift?
The speaker calls it a blessing to have the gift of words and be able to put them into music, describing it as a great gift given to them all the way around.
Which related topic captures a similar sense of appreciation?
The Gratitude collection shares that same spirit of recognizing something valuable you've been given.

For more on appreciation and delight, browse our Gratitude and Surprise collections.