Quotes About Gift

Everytime you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa

The only gift is a portion of thyself. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We should give as we would receive,
cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation;
for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. 
Seneca

We do not quite forgive a giver. 
The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greatest gift you can give another
is the purity of your attention
Richard Moss

If a person gives you his time,
he can give you no more precious gift
Frank Tyger

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
Mary Oliver

Everyone has a gift for something,
even if it is the gift of being a good friend
Marian Anderson

A friend is a gift you give yourself
Robert Louis Stevenson

The greatest gift that you can give to others
is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance
Brian Tracy

Every problem is a gift
without problems we would not grow.
Anthony Robbins

A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Christmas is the season
when you buy this year's gifts
with next year's money. 
Author Unknown

To give and then not feel
that one has given
is the very best of all ways of giving. 
Max Beerbohm

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. 
Have you used one to say "thank you?
William A. Ward

The greatest gift of the garden
is the restoration of the five senses
Hanna Rion

The Gift of Truth excels all other Gifts.
Gautama Buddha

Music is God's gift to man,
the only art of Heaven given to earth,
the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
Walter Savage Landor

Yesterday's the past,
tomorrow's the future,
but today is a gift.
That's why it's called the present.”
Bil Keane

Change always comes bearing gifts. 
Price Pritchett

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself. 
Jean Anouilh

Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha

Choose your
Gourmet Gifts

Friendship Quotes

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. 
William Blake

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have,
and one of the best things you can be. 
Douglas Pagels

Friendship isn't a big thing
it's a million little things. 
Author Unknown

A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world. 
Leo Buscaglia


Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
Sicilian Proverb

The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. 
Aristotle

The friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you. 
Elbert Hubbard

A good friend is cheaper than therapy. 
Author Unknown

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend. 
Henry David Thoreau

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. 
Arnold Glasow

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
William Shakespeare

The most beautiful discovery true friends
make is that they can grow separately without growing apart. 
Elisabeth Foley

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. 
William Blake

A friend is the only person you will let into the house
when you are Turning Out Drawers.
Pam Brown

One's friends are that part of the human race
with which one can be human. 
George Santayana

True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. 
Dave Tyson Gentry

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out. 
Grace Pulpit

Constant use will not wear ragged the fabric of friendship. 
Dorothy Parker

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship
is to understand and to be understood.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

Some people go to priests; others to poetry;
I to my friends. 
Virginia Woolf

It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. 
Marlene Dietrich

Do not protect yourself by a fence,
but rather by your friends.
Czech Proverb

Have no friends not equal to yourself.
Confucius

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.
Margaret Walker

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend. 
Plautus

A real friend is someone who would feel loss if you jumped on a train,
or in front of one. 
Author Unknown

It takes a long time to grow an old friend. 
John Leonard

Friendship is a sheltering tree. 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley Maclaine

Friends are relatives you make for yourself. 
Eustache Deschamps

Hold a true friend with both your hands. 
Nigerian Proverb

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.
Mencius

In my friend, I find a second self. 
Isabel Norton

Quotes by Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

German born American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and received Nobel Prize in physics. His many contributions include general and special relativity, photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, mass-energy equivalence, Einstein field equations, Unified Field Theory, Bose–Einstein statistics. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time. (1879-1955)

“Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.”
-Albert Einstein

“Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.”
-Albert Einstein

“Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
-Albert Einstein

“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
-Albert Einstein

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.”
-Albert Einstein

“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.”
-Albert Einstein

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
-Albert Einstein

“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.”
-Albert Einstein

“If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.”
Albert Einstein

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”
-Albert Einstein

“Imagination is more important than knowledge...”
-Albert Einstein

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
-Albert Einstein

“Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.”
-Albert Einstein

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”
-Albert Einstein

“Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”
-Albert Einstein

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.”
-Albert Einstein

“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
-Albert Einstein

“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.”
-Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
-Albert Einstein

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.”
-Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.”
-Albert Einstein

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
-Albert Einstein

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.”
-Albert Einstein

“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.”
-Albert Einstein

“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.”
-Albert Einstein

“To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.”
-Albert Einstein

“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”
-Albert Einstein

“Truth is what stands the test of experience.”
-Albert Einstein

“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
-Albert Einstein

“We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.”
-Albert Einstein

“Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.”
-Albert Einstein

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
-Albert Einstein, "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
-Albert Einstein, "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.”
-Albert Einstein, 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950

“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”
-Albert Einstein, 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
-Albert Einstein, (attributed)

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.”
-Albert Einstein, (attributed)

“If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.”
-Albert Einstein, (attributed)

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
-Albert Einstein, (attributed)

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
-Albert Einstein, (attributed)

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
-Albert Einstein, (attributed)

“The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” -
Albert Einstein, (attributed)

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”
-Albert Einstein, (attributed)

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.”
-Albert Einstein, (attributed)

“You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”
-Albert Einstein, (attributed)

“At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.”
-Albert Einstein, In a letter to Max Born, 1926

“If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.”
-Albert Einstein, Observer, Jan. 15, 1950

“Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”
-Albert Einstein, quoted in New York Times, March 13, 1940

“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”
-Albert Einstein, Telegram, 24 May 1946

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”
-Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.

“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
-Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

Quotes by Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) was known as the Father of Nation played a stellar role in India's freedom struggle. Thinker, statesman and nationalist leader, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi not only led his own country to independence but also influenced political activists of many persuasions throughout the world with his methods and philosophy of nonviolent confrontation, or civil disobedience.

If he had wanted, Gandhi could have lived a very comfortable life as a lawyer. Instead he devoted it to prayer, fasting and meditation. He wore basic clothes and lived off fruit, vegetables and milk. He gave up his personal comfort to bring well-being to millions of others. He was one of the greatest men of this planet.
(1869-1948)

“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.” -Mahatma Gandhi

“Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.” -Mahatma Gandhi

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
-Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"

“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.”
-Mahatma Gandhi, 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”
-Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”
-Mahatma Gandhi, 1931

“I think it would be a good idea.”
-Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization

Quotes by John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy
He was the thirty-fifth president of the United States. He was the first president to reach for the moon, through the nation's space programs. He also was the first president since Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) with whom youth could identify. He made the nation see itself with new eyes.

On November 22, 1963, when he was hardly past his first thousand days in office, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was killed by an assassin's bullets as his motorcade wound through Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die. His assassination shocked the world.
(1917 - 1963)

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
-John F. Kennedy

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
-John F. Kennedy


“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”
-John F. Kennedy

“Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our nation.”
-John F. Kennedy

“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain”.
-John F. Kennedy

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”
-John F. Kennedy

“So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.”
-John F. Kennedy

“The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.”
-John F. Kennedy

“The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.”
-John F. Kennedy

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-John F. Kennedy

“The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'”
-John F. Kennedy

“The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”
-John F. Kennedy

“There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
-John F. Kennedy

“Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.”
-John F. Kennedy

“We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.”
-John F. Kennedy

“We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.”
-John F. Kennedy

“We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.”
-John F. Kennedy

“When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.”
-John F. Kennedy

“The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.”
-John F. Kennedy, Amherst College, Oct 26, 1963

“...probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.”
-John F. Kennedy, Describing a dinner for Nobel Prize winners, 1962

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” -John F. Kennedy, In a speech at the White House, 1962

“And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
-John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961

“If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”
-John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, January 20, 1961

“We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.”
-John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963

“For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.”
-John F. Kennedy, Speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963

“Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.”
-John F. Kennedy, speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
-John F. Kennedy, speech at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963

“All of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea -- whether it is to sail or to watch it -- we are going back from whence we came.”
-John F. Kennedy, Speech given at Newport at the dinner before the America's Cup Races, September 1962

“We need men who can dream of things that never were.”
-John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963

“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.”
-John F. Kennedy, Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959