Best 239 quotes in «granted quotes» category

Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.

Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Every rep that you take off, somebody else gets another look. That's just how I am. It's not a matter of being paranoid, it's a matter of being confident and not taking anything for granted.

Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.

Families, particularly, tend to be the ones that you take the most for granted. They seem to slip under the radar, all those important things - it almost becomes second nature to do so.

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.

Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone.

Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.

Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.

God has granted me today a very particular fondness for requesting of Him that same virtue of ever choosing the worst and that which is contrary to my own liking.

God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.

God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.

Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.

Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

Good kids are like sunsets. We take them for granted.

Granted, I could go out and lose everything (by) gambling and drinking, but there's no sense in denying it. It's in my blood.

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.

His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything.

Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.

He is annoyed with their lack of interest, their blithe ignorance of the arbitrary genetic lottery that has granted them their privileged lives.

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

How insensitive, inartistic, unscientific, and ungracious it is to take anything for granted!

I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.

Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.

I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.

I count my blessings every day, quite honestly, because I take nothing for granted.

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

I appreciate everything that I have, versus taking it for granted.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

If a German company takes over 51 percent of an Indian one, it is given far-reaching controlling rights. But if an Indian company owns the majority of a German company, it is granted only very limited influence. That is unfair.

I developed a really strong work ethic, and I don't take anything for granted.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right.

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.

I feel lucky that I'm working at all. I don't take any job for granted. I enjoy this. It's all enjoyable for me. It's all part of it.

I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

If I find myself half-carelessly taking lapses for granted, "Oh, that's what they always do." "Oh, of course she talks like that, he acts like that," then I know nothing of Calvary love.

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

If you go back to Adam Smith, you find the idea that markets and market forces operate as an invisible hand. This is the traditional laissez-faire market idea. But today, when economics is increasingly defined as the science of incentive, it becomes clear that the use of incentives involves quite active intervention, either by an economist or a policy maker, in using financial inducements to motivate behavior. In fact, so much though that we now almost take for granted that incentives are central to the subject of economics.

I guess the main thing is, you unconsciously take things for granted, and you think the audience is with you, because you're with yourself.

If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.

I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.

I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.