Given Quotes

A low-minded person should not be given good advice.

Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.

I was prepared to get knocked out myself trying to knock him out, because then I could sleep at night knowing that I've given my best.

I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

We live the given life, and not the planned.

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Much is expected from those to whom much is given.

I have never given up on men easily.

It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.

If you don't need to prove that you are right or that someone else's behavior should be punished, you can better see your way to achieving harmony in any given situation.

The greatest part of mankind ... are given up to labor, and enslaved to the necessity of their mean condition; whose lives are worn out only in the provisions for living.

Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.

You've given up your whole life to be the person you are now. Is it worth it?

I have noticed that youngsters given to the climbing habit usually do something when they grow up

Mama, you taught me to do the right things / So now you have to let your baby fly / You've given me everything that I will need / To make it through this crazy thing called life

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

What love we've given, we'll have forever.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

On any given day, I don't think there's anybody who can outdrive me. That's the mind set I have going into every race.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

we are all given the ingredients of happiness, but the mixing is left to ourselves.

You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.

God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

I really don't look at my life as being an accomplishment. I'm just very thankful for what I've been given.

When your goal is to put on muscle mass you must increase your calorie intake as you increase the activity level being given to the muscle

We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.

Fame is an illusion. Things can be given to you quite easily, but they get ripped away so quickly as well.

He held her as though she was a gift. Given to him in love. Something still and small. Unbearably precious.

I was driven to give the best possible performance I could based on the material that was given to me and that material was documentary footage of the President speaking to people.

The Lord, creator of life, has given us information to act upon that is guaranteed by him to guide us to our goal of life eternal.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

Trust is won not given.

What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.