Given Quotes

I'm most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He's given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I'll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.

When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

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

Given that sexual orientation is innate and that we are all, in theological terms, children of God, to deny access to some sacraments based on sexuality is as wrong as denying access to some sacraments based on race or gender.

Mike Tyson has been given every penny he has coming.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me - I wasn't neglected enough as a child.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need to not only implement effective programs to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they become effective, nurturing, bonding parents.

You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.

Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given.

To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It's embedded in me.

As America celebrates Memorial Day, we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.