"Life isn’t about waiting for the time to come. It’s all about making the most of things in the time that is given to you."
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"Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life."
"Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away."
"You are either moving towards or away from success at any given time. What direction are you headed in?"
"The wrong thing to do about any given circumstance or situation is to do nothing."
"When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity."
"God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called."
"Unless devotion is given to the thing which must prove false in the end, the thing that is true in the end cannot enter."
"What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place."
"Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice... No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out."
"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust."
"Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time."
"We are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free."
"Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are."
"Boxing is the gift I have been given for whatever reason and I'd love to honour God in everything I do."
"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays."
"Don’t wait around waiting for God to do something that He’s already given you the power to do."
"I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our life work."
"The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people."
"I was always kind of naïve, and really needed to be given some direction."