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Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Such a man is not malleable; he may be mistaken, he may be fooled in a given instance, but he is inflexible in regard to the absolutism of reality, i.e., in seeking and demanding truth.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

By all means ask for abundance and health for you, but also ask for it to be given to everyone.

Anarchism is the abolition of exploitation and oppression of man by man, that is, the abolition of private property and government; Anarchism is the destruction of misery, of superstitions, of hatred. Therefore, every blow given to the institutions of private property and to the government, every exaltation of the conscience of man, every disruption of the present conditions, every lie unmasked, every part of human activity taken away from the control of the authorities, every augmentation of the spirit of solidarity and initiative, is a step towards Anarchism.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique.

Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better, but many statisticians believe it is a branch of mathematics. Now I agree that the physicist, the chemist, the engineer, and the statistician can never know too much mathematics, but their objectives should be better physics, better chemistry, better engineering, and in the case of statistics, better scientific investigation. Whether in any given study this implies more or less mathematics is incidental.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

An audience is not brought to you or given to you; it’s something that you fight for.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

Government has no money of its own. All it does is take resources from one group and given them to another.

I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.

Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us.

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.

My heart to you is given:Oh, do give yours to me; We’ll lock them up together, And throw away the key.

Men live best upon a little; Nature has given to all the privilege of being happy, if they but knew how to use their gifts.

A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit de corps. He has given up his life to his temple and his god. This is a very excellent thing for the internal vigour of his own priesthood, his own temple. He lives and dies for the honour of his particular god. But in the next town or village is another temple with another god. It is his constant preoccupation to keep his people from that god. Religious cults and priesthoods are sectarian by nature; they will convert, they will overcome, but they will never coalesce.

He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story — the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended.

If language was given to men to conceal their thoughts, then gesture’s purpose was to disclose them.

God has given me the grace to see some of the seeds that I have sown bear good fruit, and I am so grateful.

Remember to look at your glass half full and not half empty. A lot of my strength comes from God. God has given me a gift – the gift of life – and it’s amazing that I live each day.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.

Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.

Devotion is the realization that wealth, education and power are God given gifts and not the endowments of fate.