Given Quotes

Freedom is not given - it is taken.

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.

Civilization is always in danger when those who have never learned to obey are given the right to command.

And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness.

I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

It's hard to forget someone whos given so much to remember.

It is great to be faced with the impossible, for nothing is impossible if one is meant to do it. Wisdom will be given, and strength. When the Lord leads, He always strengthens.

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.

To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future.

It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers.

As you will find in multivariable calculus, there is often a number of solutions for any given problem.

The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

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

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

To whom much is given, from him much will be required.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

Know how to live the time that is given you.

Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him the capacity to understand the universe in which they live.

Greatness is earned, not given.

Referrals aren't given easily. If you don't take the time to establish credibility, you're not going to get the referral. People have to get to know you. They have to feel comfortable with who you are and what you do.

Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.

If you’ve given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope .

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?

I absolutely believe my talent is God-given. I ask God for a lot, but I also thank him. I'm a very demanding believer.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

If given a choice, I would have certainly selected to be what I am: one of the oppressed instead of one of the oppressors.

I've given up asking questions. l merely float on a tsunami of acceptance of anything life throws at me ... and marvel stupidly.

Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal.

I have given you independence, now go and preserve it.

Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.

Never chase love, affection, or attention. If it isn't given freely by another person, it isn't worth having.

You were given that pain and that vision because you have something to do with it.

Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

Outlier are those who have been given opportunities-- -and who have had the strength and presence of mind to seize them.