Grants Quotes

• Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love, Christian, Being Alone

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• God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Hope, Courage, Giving Up

  "The Armed Forces Prayer Book". Book edited by Daniel Alfred Poling, 1951.

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• God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.

  Daniel Webster

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, 4th Of July

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1860). “The Works of Daniel Webster”, p.47

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  It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Mathematics, Mathematical, Possession

  Letter to Farkas Bolyai, September 02, 1808.

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• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  Samuel Beckett

  World, Unhappiness, Comical

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.26, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Heart, Depth

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• Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Success, Leadership

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• Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty.

  Francis of Assisi

  Sublime, Treasure, Poverty

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  O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

  Francis of Assisi

  Love You, Love Life, Generosity

  Francis of Assisi (2017). “St. Francis of Assisi's Prayers”, p.72, Paper & Ink

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• Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love, with all my heart. With all my heart.

  Eugene Roe

  Heart, May, Spirit Love

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Wilting, Command

  "The confessions of S. Augustine: A revised translation".

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• God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

  Walter Annenberg

  Fighting, Temptation, Surrender

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• Cary Grant was one of the most marvelous men I've ever met.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Men, Mets, Marvelous

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• Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Patience, Business, Men

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• I oppose any attempt to grant homosexual unions the same legal privileges that civil government affords to traditional marriage and family life.

  Todd Akin

  Government, Unions, Privilege

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• The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant.

  Joe Pantoliano

  Men, Opinion

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• Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Leadership, Morning

  Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (1959). “Poetry, 1917-1959”

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• Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Rights, Government, Doe

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• There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.

  Matthew Lesko

  Different, Requirements, Program

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• Unless you're Jack Lemmon or Cary Grant, there are few guys who can do comedy and drama.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Drama, Guy, Comedy

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• Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Children, Women, Weakness

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.17, Lulu.com

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• Yeah, but there's nobody who represents romance to me like Cary Grant.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Romance, Yeah

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• Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

  Horace

  Life, Work, Hardship

  "Satires". Book by Horace, Book I, satire ix, line 59, c. 35 BC and 30 BC.

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• Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

  John Selden

  Prayer, Giving, Reason Why

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.140

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