Best Given Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

All that is not given is lost.

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

What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.

I don’t know – too much about Robert Williams tactics, but if he was trying to defend himself, he was within his God-given rights and within – and he was also within his natural right, because first law of nature is self-preservation.

We were all given our opportunities to be ourselves. A little bit of ourselves.

The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.

I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.

There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. You must know. Giving without receiving doesn’t prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of.

If I’d listened to customers, I’d have given them a faster horse.

The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.