Bestow Upon Us Quotes

#1. Oh, fine then. Let the Patron Saint of Desperate Housewives bestow upon us the blessings of his company.

Tracy Brogan

#2. If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.

Joyce Meyer

#3. We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.

Jean Rostand

#4. Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#5. I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.

Davy Crockett

#6. Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

John Updike

#7. Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

Camryn Manheim

#8. The common people are but ill judges of a man's merits; they are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue. No wonder, then, that they bestow their honors on those who least deserve them.

Horace

#9. It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

Louis O. Kelso

#10. Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst,
Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest,
With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd,
And wander'd in the solitary shade.
The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd
Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.

Alexander Pope

#11. If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#12. The good king delighted in noticing and promoting good men to positions of responsibility in his kingdom. He held audience, primarily, not to be seen, but to see, admire, and delight in his subjects, to reward them and to bestow honors upon them. [the King]

Robert Moore

#13. Schools in the future will be judged less because of the credentials that they bestow, and more because of the experiences that they offer.

Roger Schank

#14. only a woman has the power to choose whether or not to bestow.

Amos Oz

#15. Because we often think of bias as a function of overt acts of bigotry, we can sometimes remain blind to the invisible structures, systems, and behaviors that bestow and reinforce that power and privilege on a daily basis.

Howard J. Ross

#16. Some of us realize the self-evident truth that no election, no constitution, no legislation, and no other pseudo-religious political ritual can bestow upon anyone the right to rule another. Nothing can make a man into a rightful master; nothing can make a man into a rightful slave.

Larken Rose

#17. Gift better than Himself God doth not know,
Gift better than God no man can see;
This gift doth here the giver given bestow
Gift to this gift let each receiver be;
God is my gift, Himself He freely gave me,
God's gift am I, and none but God shall have me.

Robert Southwell

#18. Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow.

Thomas Gray

#19. There are an infinite number of rewards you could bestow on yourself for working at your creative projects, and you deserve every one of them.

Eric Maisel

#20. Miracles of grace must be the seals of our ministry; who can bestow them but the Spirit of God? Convert a soul without the Spirit of God! Why, you cannot even make a fly, much less create a new heart and a right spirit."48

Steven J. Lawson

#21. Who among us is living in the past? You, who would bestow the horrors of the toiling industrial age upon this country, or I, who wish that our poor Europe might recover the naturalness and faith of these children of slaves?

Umberto Eco

#22. O Lord in Heaven, may thy name be praised in utmost purity for ever and ever, and may thy kingdom come to us. Please forgive our many sins, and bestow thy blessings upon our humble pathways. Amen.

Haruki Murakami

#23. Friendship is the holiest of gifts;
God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us!
It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.
Everyone can have a friend,
Who himself knows how to be a friend.

Christoph August Tiedge

#24. Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them. Let us also teach our children to see that the work assigned is carried to its completion and to take pride in what they accomplish.

L. Tom Perry

#25. If the Creator were to bestow a new set of senses upon us, or slightly remodel the present ones, leaving all the rest of nature unchanged, we should never doubt we were in another world, and so in strict reality we should be, just as if all the world besides our senses were changed.

John Muir

#26. The tender mercies of the Lord are available to all of us and ... the Redeemer of Israel is eager to bestow such gifts upon us.

David A. Bednar

#27. Oh, Lord, bestow me with the power, that as much as I love her, I extinguish the need of loving her within me.

Alireza Salehi Nejad

#28. Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.

Charles Koch

#29. The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Richard M. Nixon

#30. What Can be Promised. - Actions can be promised, but not feelings, for these are involuntary. Whoever promises somebody to love him always, or to hate him always, or to be ever true to him, promises something that it is out of his power to bestow.

Anonymous

#31. O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

Lucretius

#32. Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

Albert Einstein

#33. At the outer door to bestow the greetings of the season on the clerk, who, cold as he was, was warmer than Scrooge; for he returned them cordially. "There's another fellow," muttered Scrooge; who overheard him: "my clerk, with fifteen

Charles Dickens

#34. The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

#35. Glory seems to bestow herself like a whore on those least worthy.

Scott Oden

#36. I had no genius, no mission to fulfill, no great heart to bestow. I had nothing and I deserved nothing. But all the same I desired some sort of reward.

Henri Barbusse

#37. Since the Gods of hangovers ignore you I hope the Deities of STD's bestow you with rotten crotch.

Sherri Desbois

#38. The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. The right mental attitude, the trained mind, will bring to us the best there is in the universe.

Orison Swett Marden

#39. To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#40. Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit.

Sam Storms

#41. As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship!
How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow!
How much of good or evil must be done by him!

Jane Austen

#42. It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

Emily Giffin

#43. My Shoes. Black Chuck Taylor All Stars. They bestow their wearer with both speed and flight.

Ernest Cline

#44. Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.

Joseph Addison

#45. Now utter (this supplication, and then prepare yourself to migrate to Medina), "My Lord! Let my entrance be an honest entrance, let my exit be an honest exit, and bestow upon me power from You to help me." [80]

Anonymous

#46. What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.

Walt Whitman

#47. I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

Seneca The Younger

#48. If water won't smother the blaze
Father, take my tears and bestow them on the fire
see if the fires will wither.

Zakariya Amataya

#49. The good we do.
How much we create.
The respect we bestow.
How hard we love - no one gets to vote on these.

Alexandra Silber

#50. My mother was a good mistress to her servants, taking care of them in their sicknesses, not sparing any cost she was able to bestow for their recovery.

Margaret Cavendish