Best 239 quotes in «granted quotes» category

Day after day we must remember we can take freedom for granted. Day after day we must keep the bond between freedom and other values in mind.

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

Don't take anything for granted. If you don't believe in yourself, nobody else will. Have a little more confidence.

Don't take things for granted.

Drafting a constitution is only the first step. The constitution has to be granted legitimacy by open discussion and a fair, representative referendum.

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

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

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.

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.

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.

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

Freedom under the law must never be taken for granted.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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