Given Quotes

Respect is EARNED but honor is GIVEN.

— Craig Groeschel

For me, nothing is given.

— Pharrell Williams

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— Maximilien Robespierre

Everyday is a gift, not a given

— Anonymous

Nothing has been given to me.

— Freddy Adu

Basketball has given me everything.

— Jamal Crawford

Love is a given, hatred is acquired.

— Douglas Horton

No man can given anybody his freedom.

— Stokely Carmichael

What I learned is that nothing is given easy to you.

— Christian Pulisic

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

— Anonymous

Whoever plays well on a given day, that player wins.

— P. V. Sindhu

The fates have given mankind a patient soul.

— Homer

“The boon that could be given can be withdrawn.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The most abysmal advise ever given by the ignorant to the stupid.

— Tommy Armour

Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.

— Don King

Love is always being given where it is not required.

— E. M. Forster

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

— Doris Lessing

Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many…

— Pablo Picasso

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given…

— Samuel Butler

Given a choice between being happy or being efficient and safe, I'll take efficient and safe.

— Bob Buckhorn

A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid…

— Johnny Cash

The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.

— Mahatma Gandhi

At the toughest times I recalled how the children and the elderly looked at me with trustful eyes. Your faith has given…

— Viktor Yushchenko

Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused…

— Dick Gregory

The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with - and appreciate - the brain we've…

— Laini Taylor

Balm of the summer night, balm of the ordinary, imperial joy and sorrow of human existence, the dreamed as well as the…

— Louise Glück

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly…

— Martin Lawrence

Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody…

— Robertson Davies

There's something about his eyes in the photo. A kind of mystery. His personality comes through. It's always hung on my walls…

— Alberto Korda

What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all…

— Alice Munro

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than…

— Colum McCann

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Every place is given its character by certain patterns of events that keep on happening there. These patterns of events are locked…

— Christopher Alexander

What we need to do is increase the totality of money that is given to the poorest areas and then we can…

— James Wolfensohn

If the children and youth of a nation are afforded opportunity to develop their capacities to the fullest, if they are given…

— Anonymous

A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Stella: I got a nose for trouble. I can smell it ten miles away. . . . I can smell trouble right…

— Thelma Ritter

As a kid, I wasn't given the sense that celebrity, or fame, or any of that, was something to be impressed by,…

— Adria Petty

I have been working with the World Health Organization since 1989 in an effort to redefine approaches to contraceptive introduction. This has…

— Ruth Simmons