Given Quotes · Page 146

For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.

— Saint Augustine

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the cuttle-fish.

— Plutarch

I haven't been given many things, but I've been given ample, limitless patience.

— Lincoln Diaz-Balart

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Success is doing the best you possibly can with what you've been given. There are an alarming number of wealthy failures in…

— John Avery

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.

— DeWitt Wallace

True Leadership is the authority given by the trust of the followers to use power for the benefit of all.

— Myles Munroe

We're always given the message that our potential is so limited, which is so sad. Actually, our potential is infinite.

— Tenzin Palmo

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them…

— Jane Goodall

No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault…

— Paulo Coelho

we can search for and attain to only one being, that one which was given us, which is within us and which…

— Georgette Leblanc

I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves…

— John Steinbeck

I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered…

— Warren Kole

Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into…

— Anonymous

When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful…

— Zicheng Hong

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

I think it's my job or the artist's job, to try and find some solution or some reason to accept things. But…

— Woody Allen

She was so emotional, on the verge of tears. This was what I'd wanted to prevent with all those quick disappearances, the…

— Sarah Dessen

What constitutes success? She who has achieved success has lived well; laughed often and loved much; has gained the respect of little…

— Bessie Anderson Stanley

It is not enough to know the Son of God in the Father's nature only, unless we acknowledge Him in what is…

— Pope Leo I

The important point is that since the origin of life belongs in the category of at-least-once phenomena, time is on its side.…

— George Wald

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

— Anonymous

Trust is a fragile thing - difficult to build, easy to break. It cannot be bargained for. Only if it is freely…

— Peter Lerangis

The ability to talk to kids and reach kids is a gift I've been given, and I may as well use it.

— Montel Williams

It's the greatest of Southern honors . . . to have one's name incorporated into a family tree. It's an honor not lightly given.

— Sheri Holman

Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The smaller the monkey the more it looks like it would kill you at the first given opportunity.

— Peter Kay

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs…

— Dave Sim

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

— Neil Gaiman

I think the guy who gets the least chatter, given how high his chances are of winning the nomination, is Ted Cruz.

— Dalia Mogahed

Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?

— W. L. George

When I write, I strain with every wizened fibre of my weathered frame to analyze every possible angle of any given subject.

— Jim Goad

I am sure that no man asks mercy and grace with true meaning, but if mercy and grace have first been given…

— Anya Seton

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God wastes nothing, so use what He has given you as fuel for your soul's journey.

— Sarah Jakes

This knight was indeed a valiant gentleman; but not a little given to romance, when he spake of himself.

— John Evelyn