Endowments Quotes
35 quotes by 29 authors
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are…
— Franz Boas
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Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
— Vince Lombardi
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I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which…
— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet
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Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that…
— John Calvin
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I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.
— David Livingstone
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That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
— Mary Astell
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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts,…
— Johann Arndt
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Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness…
— Stephen Covey
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There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which…
— John Calvin
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The Church is her true self only when she exists for humanity. As a fresh start, she should give away all her endowments to the…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for…
— John Rawls
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What is the explanation for the blind eye that has been turned on the flood of medical reports on the causative role of carbohydrates in…
— Robert Atkins
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Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors
— Michael Bassey
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Prayers prayed in the Spirit never die until they accomplish God's intended purpose. His answer may not be what we expected, or when we expected…
— Wesley L Duewel
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The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments that make it…
— Harold B. Lee
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Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose,…
— Stephen Covey
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Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way…
— Eliot Spitzer
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea…
— Adlai E. Stevenson
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