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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.

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

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

God has given you talents and opportunities. Seize them today — not tomorrow.

What the ego doesn’t want us to see is that our pain doesn’t come from the love we weren’t given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren’t giving in the present.

…children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Happiness, in the ancient, noble sense, means self-fulfillment—and is given to those who use to the fullest whatever talents God … bestowed upon them.

We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him.

Don’t ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you’ll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.

There is something that happens when you get emancipated. You approach life differently. You eat differently. You respect yourself more. You respect the gift you have been given.

Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.

If God had not intended that Women shou’d use their Reason, He wou’d not have given them any, ‘for He does nothing in vain.

We should pray to the angels, for they are given to us as guardians.

But beauty itself is not given to us by anyone; it is a power we have within us from the gate, a radiance inside us.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

All that is not given is lost.

An opportunity was being given to me to do what I had asked of others.

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

Influence comes out of the work that you’ve done and the things you’ve stood for. Influence and power shouldn’t be given to just anybody who wants them.