Grant Quotes

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

Change, God, Courage

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

Alone, Heart, Help

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

Love, Loved, Lord

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

God, Courage, Give

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.
Mitt Romney

Success, God, Best

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
Saint Augustine

Command, Thou, Wilt

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

May, Desire, Lord

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling

Love, Patience, Heaven

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

Nothing, Yes, Funnier

Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Crazy, Drunk, Him

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Free, Equal, Press

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
Francis of Assisi

Sun, Poverty, Order

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede

Knowledge, Wisdom, Words

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, Rather

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Cary Grant

Everyone, Wants, Cary

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
W. H. Auden

Society, Place, Unique

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

God, Strength, Fight

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
Dag Hammarskjold

Social, Dying, Party

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.
Marco Rubio

Government, Rights, Protect

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
Patrick Gordon

Life, Time, Good

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.
William Tecumseh Sherman

Him, Accept, Create

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Rather, Office, Box

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

Women, Men, Children

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
Ivan Turgenev

God, Person, May

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
Henry Adams

Alone, Progress, President

Nowadays if you're dependent on a grant - and 99% of them are - you can't make mistakes as you won't get another one if you do.
James Lovelock

Mistakes, Another, Won

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
George Farquhar

Shall, Wild, Heavens

I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman.
Tim Roth

Watch, Bergman, Cary

Unfenced by law, the unmarried lover can quit a bad relationship at any time. But you - the legally married person who wants to escape doomed love - may soon discover that a significant portion of your marriage contract belongs to the State, and that it sometimes takes a very long while for the State to grant you your leave.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Marriage, Time

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.
David Attenborough

Government, Same, Actually

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