Friends Are Gods Gift Quotes

You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war. No, it is when one side goes against the enemy with the gods' gift of a stronger morale that their adversaries, as a rule, cannot withstand them. I have noticed this point too, my friends, that in soldiering the people whose one aim is to keep alive usually find a wretched and dishonorable death, while the people who, realizing that death is the common lot of all men, make it their endeavour to die with honour, somehow seem more often to reach old age and to have a happier life when they are alive. These are facts which you too should realize (our situation demands it) and should show that you yourselves are brave men and should call on the rest to do likewise. ~ Xenophon

Your smile is a gift of the gods. ~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments. ~ Dick Cavett

Priceless gifts:
The gift of love.
The gift of parent.
The gift of husband
The gift of wife
The gift of children
The gift of prayer.
The gift of family.
The gift of relatives.
The gift of friends.
The gift of in-laws.
The gift of books. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold. ~ Anita Brookner

Song of praise: Be joyful and count your blessings.There are so many things to be thankful for; the gift of being alive, blessings of a new day to hope and dream, the gift of families, the gift of children, the gift of friends, gift of people who make you laugh and smiles, the gift of strangers who show you kindness,the gift of nature, gift of educators, gift of preachers and many more. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The moment is a gracious gift. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Sadly enough, my young friends, it is a characteristic of our age that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much, comfortable gods, smooth gods who not only don't rock the boat but don't even row it, gods who pat us on the head, make us giggle, then tell us to run along and pick marigolds. ~ Jeffrey R. Holland

Talent," she said, "is Gods gift to you. What you do with it, is your gift back to him." ... The Blue Edge of Midnight, pg. 3. ~ Jonathan King

We are the only creators, the only gods. Guilty gods, negated gods, damaged, schizophrenic gods, but above all self- changing gods. ~ John Holloway

Who can doubt, my dear Lucilius, that life is the gift of the immortal gods, but that living well1 is the gift of philosophy? ~ Seneca.

Goodbye" is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends. Never hesitate to wave it back. Be bold to say "no" to what always keeps you static! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

Eternal life is not a gift from God, eternal life is the gift of God. ~ Oswald Chambers

They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like ... smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods? ~ Rick Riordan

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. ~ Demosthenes

I have no regrets about my work. To be a photographer was a gift of the gods. I can't imagine anything that would have been better. ~ Ruth Bernhard

But let me reveal my heart to you entirely, my friends: if there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god! Hence there are no gods. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

How enriched life is by friends! Good friends, new friends, old friends, feathered friends, feline friends,
friends of friends ... ~ Laurel Burch

Gift better than Himself God doth not know,
Gift better than God no man can see;
This gift doth here the giver given bestow
Gift to this gift let each receiver be;
God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,
God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me. ~ Robert Southwell

It is one thing to have the gift of seeing the spirits and hearing the Gods who move about us as we come and go; but it is a gift of darkness as well as light. ~ Mary Stewart

One of the greatest gifts to give our friends and others is a prayer. ~ Ellen J. Barrier

In many people, incidentally, the gift of having good friends is much greater than the gift of being a good friend. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

How I envy you creative people - creativity is a gift from the gods ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Gift of the Real Estate Gods. ~ Gary Keller

The best gift that we can give to our friends is true love and sincere appreciation. ~ Debasish Mridha

My parents gave me the gift of irreligion, of growing up without bothering to ask people what gods they held dear, assuming that in fact, like my parents, they weren't interested in gods, and that this uninterest was 'normal.' You may argue that the gift was a poisoned chalice, but even if so, that's a cup from which I'd happily drink again. ~ Salman Rushdie

The gods are for whatever we wish. That is the point of gods. The gods will carry me onwards, and that is all that matters. ~ Kieron Gillen

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy. ~ Seneca The Younger

You need to maximize your Gods given potential through the power of your spirit, your inner core, your values and principles on which your life is based ~ Sunday Adelaja

Perhaps he still hopes. If there's any justice in the Gods' injustice, then may they let us keep our dreams, even when they're impossible, and may our dreams be happy, even when they're trivial.
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Every dream is the same dream, for they're all dreams. Let the Gods change my dreams, but not my gift for dreaming. ~ Fernando Pessoa

When you ask God for a gift,
Be thankful if he sends,
Not diamonds, pearls or riches,
but the love of real true friends. ~ Helen Steiner Rice

In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just didn't know if I had any gift or voice and I had no confidence about it. ~ Rashida Jones

There are many gods ... gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones
... The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods. ~ Rudolfo Anaya

All around us are the miracles of God. A tiny seed grows into a peepul tree. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly! ~ Dada J.P. Vaswani

There were different categories of friends in Vince's opinion. Golf friends, work friends, old school friends, shipboard friends...but friend friends were harder to come by. ~ Kate Atkinson

Let my heart be wise. It is the gods' best gift. ~ Euripides

The first duty is to sacrifice to the gods and pray them to grant you the thought,words, and deeds likely to render your command most pleasing to the gods and bring yourself, your friends, and your city the fullest measure of affection and glory and advantage ~ Xenophon

A woman who knows where she stands, will remain standing; even when everything around her is crumbling. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

All gods are selfish and vain. Gods demand worship. Gods demand prayer. ~ Brent Hayward

Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods have become like us. Ergo, we have become as gods. ~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

Jacob was a gift from the gods. ~ Stephenie Meyer

When the storm comes all the way to you, ask God to make a way for you. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

The gods cared nothing for those they touched. Especially war gods. ~ F.T. McKinstry

The best gift your true friends will ever give you is carry your casket with respect. So be good to those you consider exceptional. ~ Robert Kodingo

We are souls, eternal and perfect, captains of our mystic ships: gods and goddesses of our universe. We are beautiful, we pearls of grit. We, the ember of everything. Our uniqueness IS what makes us special, and the expression of it is our gift to the rest of us. In order to feel happy and fulfilled, we must honour our own personal brand of creativity... let it out into the world... BE who we came here to BE. ~ Angie Karan

I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods. ~ Emo Philips

If you give me a gift, it'd be insulting to pay you, because I'd be denying you the gift of giving. So my gift to you is to accept your gift, thereby allowing you to enjoy the gift of giving. ~ Jarod Kintz

And the love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another. ~ Plato

If I don't recognize a gift as a gift it will be something, but it won't be a gift. ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Once you find out that someone likes a certain game on Facebook, now you know what kind of virtual gift you can get them. You can send them a little decoration. Social games give you goals where you can help and reward your friends. ~ Bing Gordon

I had given Holmes this wedding as a gift-only to have him turn around and hand it back to me tenfold. And now his two oldest friends in all the world had conspired against our plans, casually rendering our feeble attempts at a gift into solid gold. ~ Laurie R. King

You have been waiting for a gift all the while but you forgot that you are the gift - unwrap the gem within and shine! ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

No matter what the world said, my magic was beautiful. Even without powers, the gods had blessed me with a gift. ~ Tomi Adeyemi

Songwriting wasn't my gift. I think you have to cultivate a gift; you have to practice and develop craft around your gift so that you can execute it in more convenient, efficient ways. ~ Linda Ronstadt

The wild gods live with the wild plants. Once, all of our gods were plants and animals. The allies are the ancient gods, their wisdom is the ancient substrate of our volition; they are the maternal transmitters of our vision and dreams. Anthropomorphic gods were the children of the plant gods. That is why destroying wild habitat is parricide, because the gods cannot live without their habitat, and it was the gods that made us, and gave us our culture. ~ Dale Pendell

The Council agrees," Zeus said. "Percy Jackson, you will have one gift from the gods."
I hesitated. "Any gift?"
Zeus nodded grimly. "I know what you will ask. The greatest gift of all. Yes, if you want it, it shall be yours. The gods have not bestowed this gift on a mortal hero in many centuries, but, Perseus Jackson-if you wish it-you shall be made a god. Immortal. Undying. You shall serve as your father's lieutenant for all time."
I stared at him, stunned. "Um ... a god?"
Zeus rolled his eyes. "A dimwitted god, apparently. But yes. With the consensus of the entire Council, I can make you immortal. Then I will have to put up with you forever."
"Hmm," Ares mused. "That means I can smash him to a pulp as often as I want, and he'll just keep coming back for more. I like this idea. ~ Rick Riordan

Sadly enough... it is a characteristic of our age, that if people want any gods at all, they want them to be gods who do not demand much: comfortable, smooth gods. ~ Jeffrey R. Holland

Hero," said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. "Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you by now … let's try not to annoy them. ~ Sulari Gentill

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most. ~ Erica Jong

If a god is a thing that has absolute power over us, then in this world there are many. There are gods that we choose and gods that we can't avoid; there are gods that we pray to and gods that prey on us; there are dreams that become gods and nightmares that do, as well. ~ Kawai Strong Washburn

Pain is a gift from the gods. ~ George R R Martin

The Lord God must be greatly feared! We can't stand his wrath. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I grew up with white friends, Asian friends - Vietnamese, Chinese, Pacific Islanders. I had Hispanic friends, not just Mexican friends, but Guatemalan friends, Honduran friends, and we knew the difference, you know? ~ Ryan Coogler

I always get asked for suggestions on what to get food-lover friends. While there are many gifts out there that a foodie would love, it's always good to do some research beforehand so you know you're getting a gift that will last. ~ Marcus Samuelsson

Each and every being has an innate ability to heal as a gift from the gods. ~ Mikao Usui

A powerful woman chooses to stand up, even when people may have chosen to bring her down. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

Plastic gods are safe. Plastic gods don't mess with you. Plastic gods don't matter much; they fit in a small crevice of the life you want, the life you were planning to have. And when everything in life is working . . . plastic gods feel like enough. ~ Jennie Allen

Kill her. Hide the body. If only he could ... Damn, stupid conscience. Why had the gods given them that gift? It definitely should have come with a return policy.' (Syn) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

If I slip up and receive a good gift, I will not have given a good gift. This is probably a natural law that affects us all and needs a name. The Gift Reciprocal Law. ~ Padgett Powell

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals. ~ Agnes Repplier

Joel Waldfogel is one of the smartest and funniest economists on the planet. I think of him every time I start to unwrap a present. Buy Scroogenomics for your friends and family. It makes the perfect Christmas gift. ~ Ian Ayres

Repentance is a gift of God's grace. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow. ~ Joyce Rachelle

Just last year, I had to read the old Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Inspired by it, I wished I had been named Draupadi. After all, she, too, had been born differently, even abnormally. She had stepped out of fire, a gift from the old gods to her father the king. There had been no Hindu gods involved in my birth, but the loose parallels gave me a delightful sense of grandeur. ~ Sangu Mandanna

And this need for communality of worship is the chief torment of each man individually, and of mankind as a whole, from the beginning of the ages. In the cause of universal worship, they have destroyed each other with the sword. They have made gods and called upon each other: "Abandon your gods and come and worship ours, otherwise death to you and your gods!" And so it will be until the end of the world, even when all gods have disappeared from the earth: they will still fall down before idols. (...) I tell you that man has no more tormenting care than to find someone to whom he can hand over as quick as possible that gift of freedom with which the miserable creature is born. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift! ~ Joyce Meyer

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ~ Theodor Reik

If there is one thing in this world that I was raised and trained to know, it is that there is only so much you may ask of the gods. Victory in battle is their lightest gift; a quiet heart is your own concern. ~ Peter S. Beagle

Consciousness is Gods' gift to mankind. ~ Albert Hofmann

We are some people's friends only when they are with us. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Friendship is the gift of the gods, and the most precious boon to man. ~ Benjamin Disraeli

For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods. ~ Gary Vaynerchuk

Juniper said the gods like to humble people who dream big dreams. But the gods had never done much for me, and I wasn't afraid of them. ~ April Genevieve Tucholke

Salvation and Christ's love is a gift. You don't earn it. You've got to receive that gift. ~ Joel Osteen

Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice. ~ Vance Havner

Everyone has got something to gift. Your gift lies in the flame of your soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing invests life with more meaning than the realisation that every moment of sentience is a precious gift ~ Steven Pinker

God's will is like a jigsaw puzzle until you put all the pieces together, you won't be able to see the whole picture. ~ Danny L. Deaube

God's gifts are many; His best gift is one. It is the gift of Himself. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

So the gods," Moash said, nursing his own drink, "were pleased that you solved problems on your own ... by going to other gods and begging them for help instead?"
"Hush," Rock said. "Is good story. ~ Brandon Sanderson

If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees. ~ Lao-Tzu

Theologians could not even agree about the nature of their gods. These personages ranged from "blue touch-paper gods" who started everything and never interfered again, to "infinitely meddlesome gods who, as well as starting it off, police every elementary particle. ~ Peter Atkins

Leadership is not a raw gift given to a group of people. It is the product of any type of gift everyone one has. It therefore means, any kind of gift is a leadership gift! ~ Israelmore Ayivor

It was during the Renaissance that creativity was first seen, not as a matter of divine inspiration, but as a gift of a great learned man to imitate God's ability to create. As Prometheus stole the fire of the Gods and brought it to the mankind, humanity needed to steal the secret of 'creation' from Gods and understand its essence. ~ Natasa Nuit Pantovic

Now, the term 'friend' is a little loose. People mock the 'friending' on social media, and say, 'Gosh, no one could have 300 friends!' Well, there are all kinds of friends. Those kinds of 'friends,' and work friends, and childhood friends, and dear friends, and neighborhood friends, and we-walk-our-dogs-at-the-same-time friends, etc. ~ Gretchen Rubin

There. Let the gods of friendship and common sense strike him dead. ~ Kelly Moran

The spirit of an artist's gifts can wake our own. ~ Lewis Hyde "The Gift"

The cross is the gift God gives to his friends. ~ Philip Neri

The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure. ~ Anton Seidl

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. ~ Amy Tan