Top 100 Never Granted Quotes
#1. Freedom is never granted. It is earned by each generation.
Hillary Clinton
#2. Faith is not a question of basking in the certainty that there is a God and that God is taking care of us. Many of us are never granted this kind of assurance. Certitude is not the real substance of faith. Faith is a way of seeing things.
Ronald Rolheiser
#3. Harmony between two individuals is never granted-it has to be conquered indefinitely.
Simone De Beauvoir
#4. He demanded of all people the one thing he had never granted anybody: obedience.
Ayn Rand
#5. The right of the police of Boston to affiliate has always been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited ... There is no rightto strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
Calvin Coolidge
#6. No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.
Jane D. Hull
#7. Never give up and take nothing for granted in life.
Dwyane Wade
#8. After so many solitary years, spent tucked away in convents and forgotten in boarding schools, Isabelle never took for granted the fact that now she had friends, people whom she cared about and who cared about her.
Kristin Hannah
#9. The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.
Tony Dungy
#10. It's amazing how many times in life I've said, "I want to do that someday", not thinking that someday might never come. I will never take someday for granted again.
Lisa De Jong
#11. Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.
A.S. Byatt
#12. In 2012, I was diagnosed with melanoma - skin cancer - and had to get surgery on my left foot. I was out for four weeks - no dancing, no walking, nothing! It was horrible, but it taught me patience and to never take for granted the simple things we have.
Witney Carson
#13. Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?
Frederic Chopin
#14. I learned at an early age that every breath that we take is borrowed. We need to be thankful for our life and never take it for granted.
DeLisha Milton-Jones
#15. Never take today for granted, tomorrow might never come.
Matt Vella
#16. Standing center stage in the six foot circle of wood cut from the stage of the Ryman is something I never take for granted. The history and legacy of that circle is awe-inspiring.
Blake Shelton
#17. Adrian speaking to Mels ... Humans require two things to bond: scarcity and the unknown. If loved ones were around forever, you'd take them for granted, and if you knew for sure that you'd be reunited, you'd never miss them. It's all part of the divine plan.
J.R. Ward
#18. Equality must be won - by every generation - because it will never be freely granted.
Charles M. Blow
#19. I had always felt that I was an observer, never a participant; that I was watching from behind a thick glass wall as people went about the business of living
and did it with such ease, with a skill that they took for granted and that I had never known.
Tana French
#20. Even if you're inches away from the finish, never take success for granted.
Dean Karnazes
#21. That infamous day was the most powerful reminder I have ever been given that you should never take life for granted and should treat each day as if it's your last.
Bernard B. Kerik
#22. It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live. The fools, the innumerable fools, take it all for granted, skate about cheerfully on the surface and never think of inquiring what's underneath.
Aldous Huxley
#23. Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.
Alice Hegan Rice
#24. I honestly consider that the greatest gift to me, is the reaction that I get from my work. That is a given which I never, ever take for granted. But to be given that by audiences, individuals, on the street, in the theater, is an extraordinary feeling.
Angela Lansbury
#26. If nothing else, we today need a reminder that we must never take civilization for granted. I
Poul Anderson
#27. As we shall see, the tractable apostrophe has always done its proper jobs in our language with enthusiasm and elegance, but it has never been taken seriously enough; its talent for adaptability has been cruelly taken for granted; and now, in an age of supreme graphic frivolity, we pay the price.
Lynne Truss
#28. Do you forget that I am your sister?"
"No; I've never been granted the opportunity to forget it.
Georgette Heyer
#29. I never took the game for granted as far as not having to work on what I needed to do to accomplish all of the things that I wanted to accomplish.
Allen Iverson
#30. you should never take anything for granted.
Mitch Albom
#31. I didn't have the luxury of taking reality for granted. And I wouldn't say I hated people who did, because that's just about everyone. I didn't hate them. They didn't live in my world.
But that never stopped me from wishing I lived in theirs.
Francesca Zappia
#32. The first two ultimate rules of being a foster child that I had learned while at Aunt Mary's were never to become too attached to anyone and never to take someone's home for granted.
Dave Pelzer
#33. A woman's love for a man should never be taken for granted. What is life without love?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. ...he understood there was no way to escape Time, and that this moment he had been granted to watch as a child, which had never ceased to obsess him, was the moment of his own death.
Chris Marker
#35. Nothing thrills me more than to be good at something. It's very rewarding, and I feel grateful and blessed, and I never take it for granted.
Jane Elliot
#36. God would never have granted women a voice if he intended for them to remain silent. God knew that Adam, and our world, would need the voice and influence of women.
Lisa Bevere
#37. Once, she had taken love for granted. Never again. Love was the sun and the moon and the stars in a world that was otherwise cold and dark.
Kristin Hannah
#38. No, it is not the same, everyday is different and special, never to be taken for granted.
Lynette Ferreira
#39. I'm a global ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and United for Wildlife and I am also a Unicef UK ambassador. It's important to me to support charities. I never want to take my wealth for granted.
Andy Murray
#40. The great ones never take fundamentals for granted.
Twyla Tharp
#41. You can't ever take your love for granted. It's like a flower than needs sun, water, and food to survive. Without them, it cannot bloom. And besides, it's never too late to fall in love all over again, even for us old folks.
Jacob Z. Flores
#42. It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
Thomas Paine
#43. I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.
Julio Cortazar
#44. Never take tiny dreams for granted. They contain giant success stories.
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. Remember the following: Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your
Robert Greene
#46. To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, and then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
Pliny The Elder
#47. Divorce is never a nice thing, but it's very easy to take family for granted, and when there's a divorce, you don't take things for granted so much.
Ivanka Trump
#48. We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
#49. I have been so damn lucky to be able to do what I love my entire life. I never take that for granted.
Michael Skolnik
#50. I don't need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.
Shannon L. Alder
#51. Never take things for granted. Never ignore what is obvious.
Arnold Arre
#52. Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.
Tyler, The Creator
#53. There was always so much going on. Never any time to stop and smell the roses. Never any roses to stop and smell anyway.
Ellie Lieberman
#54. Never take for granted your ability to feel something good and laugh.
Lorelei James
#55. We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.
Evgeny Morozov
#56. Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded ...
Audre Lorde
#57. What happens someday if more people own my record than the bible? That will make me god because a lot more people believe in me than him? Because it's just about popularity. There are plenty of people in the world how have never heard of Jesus, while America takes him for granted.
Marilyn Manson
#58. Gratitude takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder.
Thomas Merton
#60. Humans were so ignorant, taking for granted what they received from each other, never knowing the energy they passed between themselves.
Kim Harrison
#62. Time is a gift. Something to be treasured and never taken for granted.
Lauren Hammond
#63. You can never take those you love for granted, and you have to be willing to be open and really communicate with one another to make any relationship work. And that's just it: relationships take work, and they take compromise and compassion and understanding.
Ciara Renee
#64. It's funny, but have you ever noticed that the more special something is, the more people seem to take it for granted? It's like they think it won't ever change. Just like this house here. All it ever needed was a little attention, and it would never have ended up like this in the first place.
Nicholas Sparks
#65. I feel like I'm going crazy: seeing you every day but never being able to - to hold you, to touch you when anyone else is around. i just want to take your hand, kiss you, hug you, without having to hide all the time. All those things every other couple takes for granted!
Tabitha Suzuma
#66. I will never take the fact that I am Welterweight Champion for granted. I learnt my mistake in the past. No matter how great, no matter how people tell me how great I am, I'm always one mistake away from losing everything.
Georges St-Pierre
#67. She wished so much for the presence of the boys, or Calla, or her mother, or - she had so many people that she took for granted, all the time. She had never needed to be truly afraid before. There had always been another hand to catch her, or at least to hold hers as they fell together.
Maggie Stiefvater
#68. I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.
Michael Finley
#69. Always be curious and ask questions"
"Always find the answers to questions"
"Never take anything for granted"
In the matter where NoBody becomes SomeBody and SomeBody becomes NoBody; and wherein some matters matter
Cge
#70. I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'
Gerald Asher
#71. Do you fear to lose me? Have I become so essential to you that you will treasure me always and never take me for granted?
Cameron Dokey
#72. Wordsworth's particular grace, his charisma, as theologians say, has been granted in equal measure to so very few men since time was
to Plato and who else?
The crucial thing is never what we do, but always what we do right after that. What matters is always the next step!
Robert Musil
#73. You never take your fans for granted. You always appreciate them every show, night in, night out.
Luke Bryan
#74. The enormous condescension of posterity was the magnificent phrase employed by E. P. Thompson to remind us that we must never belittle the past popular struggles and victories (as well as defeats) that we are inclined to take for granted.
Christopher Hitchens
#75. It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
Dick Cheney
#76. I remember thinking how often we look, but never see ... we listen, but never hear ... we exist, but never feel. We take our relationships for granted. A house is only a place. It has no life of its own. It needs human voices, activity and laughter to come alive.
Erma Bombeck
#77. This is precious. This is love. This is something I'll never take for granted, because I know how it feels to be without it.
Leisa Rayven
#78. Some people only dream about touring around the world with their friends and that's exactly what we're doing, and we could never take that for granted.
Taylor York
#79. Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement ... get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#80. 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.
Adam Rayner
#81. We can all name people we take for granted, because everybody's swamped. Overwhelmed. Harried. We mean to make memories with people who matter, but often, we put it off for someday. And someday morphs into never, as Life's unpredictability claims the people we love.
Andra Watkins
#82. I try never to take myself for granted as somebody who should be out there speaking. Rather, I'm doing it only because I feel there's something important that needs to be conveyed.
Angela Y. Davis
#83. Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed.
Peyton Manning
#84. I grew up in libraries, and I hope I've learned never to take them for granted. A thriving library is the heart of its community, providing access to information and educational opportunities, bringing people together, leveling the playing field, and archiving our history.
Josie Brown
#85. I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
Eartha Kitt
#86. There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted.
Josie Maran
#87. It wasn't your fault. You were just the one who survived. For whatever reason, you lived. So live your life, Haley. Live it for them. Live it fully. Go find love and do what you do with all your heart. Never take this life for granted. It's what they would want.
Kate Ashton
#88. The act of trusting your heart to another is a leap of faith. You can never know if your love shall last forever, or if the other might crush your heart to dust. It is a risk, the biggest you shall ever undertake. All you can do is take it one day at a time, but never take it for granted.
Shane K.P. O'Neill
#89. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government. I, for one, shall never accept that premise.
Ezra Taft Benson
#90. If their mother complained that he hadn't brought back enough, he'd say, Better to eat a small piece of fish with flavor than a large one without. He'd witnessed a famine of devastating proportions, never taking a single meal for granted.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#91. Everybody out there, don't ever take anybody for granted, 'cause you never know when you might lose them and you may never get the chance to tell them how you really feel.
Mariah Carey
#92. When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.
Chuck Pagano
#93. Going on You Tube, you see a lot of my videos. And I'm glad; there's numbers there. And I get this all the time, that when I'm actually in concert, there's a whole new level to it. There's this whole new energy level. It's hard to describe. But I just love to play, and I never take it for granted.
Michael Angelo Batio
#94. Granted, sorting bad ideas from good isn't easy. (One trick that works for us is a cooling-off period. Ideas nearly always seem brilliant when they're hatched, so we never act on a new idea for at least twenty-four hours. It is remarkable how stinky some ideas become after just one day in the sun.)
Anonymous
#95. Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.
James Galway
#96. I never take anything for granted, and I never forget how lucky I have been, and am.
Alan Cumming
#97. You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
Will Smith
#98. A stable, loving family is something that should absolutely, fundamentally never be taken for granted! I am lucky that I got dealt some cards that showed me what it's like to not have family, and I am much luckier to now have the chance to create my own deck!
Drew Barrymore
#99. She had been swimming in a big pink aquarium, and she never thought that somebody would come along with a hammer and break it until she was gasping for her life and everything she had taken for granted, for permanent, was gone.
Marge Piercy
#100. I tried never to take anything for granted.
Cilla Black
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