Given Quotes

God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.

I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

The things of nature are the Lord's silent ministers, given to us to teach us spiritual truths. They speak to us of the love of God and declare the wisdom of the great Master Artist.

Be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us in this world by God for the salvation of the soul. So they are of great merit when they are borne patiently.

If you've been given opportunities then you have to create opportunities. If you're given knowledge by people, share your knowledge. If you were born with talent, show your talent off.

So take seriously the story that God has given you to live. It’s time to read your own life, because your story is the one that could set us all ablaze.

Passive inactivity, because you have not been given specific instructions to do this or to do that, is a serious deficiency.

Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.

Independence is never given to a people, it has to be earned; and, once earned, must be defended.

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

An impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history.

Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!

I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.

Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, “Take my life and let it be” when you haven't given Him one ounce?

In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form by an intelligent spirit.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

I have no regrets and if I had nine lives I would have gladly given them all up for my country.

Having the choice at the end of my life has become incredibly important. It has given me a sense of peace during a time that otherwise would be dominated by fear, uncertainty and pain.

Somebody asked me what I wanted to do. I just said I wanted to…just to give back to it what it’s given me. And to meet all the other people that are doing it…just to be in the world, really.

The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be.

The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.

Base not your joy on the deeds of others. For what has been given can be taken away.

The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.

The acceptance of all that God has given us and the willingness to let it go - to give it back to him at a moment's notice - that's true human freedom.

Acting is the ability to live truthfully under the given imaginary circumstances

If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

I cannot face my God much longer knowing that his black creatures are held separate and distinct from his white creatures in the game that has given me all that I can call my own.

There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.

There is a burden of care in getting riches; fear in keeping them; temptation in using them; guilt in abusing them; sorrow in losing them; and a burden of account at last to be given concerning them.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?