Given Quotes

Maybe all the secrets of life were written on the surface of leaves, waiting to be translated. If I touched them long enough, I might be given some information no one else had.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

To dwell means to belong to a given place.

Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.

The secret to 'doing it all' is not necessarily doing it all, but rather discovering which part of the 'all' He has given us to do and doing all of THAT.

Bloggers now have no concept. They are given things; they put them on, take pictures, and then just disappear from sight. Who cares?

It is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why you have been given so much.

Given enough coffee I could rule the world

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.

When you see opportunities in your life, you've got to analyze, 'Why was that choice given to me?

We could fly anywhere in the world given that we had to fly coach but we could fly anywhere in the world or do whatever we wanted to do.

Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.

We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate.

Nature has given the opportunity of happiness to all, knew they but how to use it.

Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself.

How can land be owned by another man. Warns one can not steal what was given as a gift. Is the sky owned by birds and the rivers owned by fish.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

Those who give much without sacrifice are reckoned as having given little.

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up.

I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too.

I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

People are silently begging to be acknowledged, informed, given advance opportunities and led to action.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

You have given it all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and grace. That is enough for me.

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.

Nothing is given to you in this world, so you have to work hard.

Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.

If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

It takes constant vigilance not to slip into negativity or simple apathy. It takes courage to believe over any given period of time that we are getting better and not sliding into decline.

Many years ago when I first started my career Maradona told me "to enjoy and play as you know", and that's stayed with me ever since and is the best advice I've been given.

God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

Time is given us to be happy and for no other reason [...] When we waste time, we waste happiness.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.