Top 273 Bestow Quotes & Sayings

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker.

Kindness is one of the best gifts you can bestow... We know that inherently that feels great.

I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

At moments like this I envy those who have found a safe haven in which to bestow their hearts; or perhaps I envy them for having a heart to bestow. I often feel that I myself am without one, and possess in its stead merely a heart shaped stone.

Teaching children the joy of honest labor is one of the greatest of all gifts you can bestow upon them.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.

Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.

Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honor you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away.

The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.

Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.

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

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.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.

The more we bestow the richer we become.

The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

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.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss.

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.

Where's the man who counsel can bestow, still pleased to teach, and yet not proud to know.

A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

Mom was an academic, so the riches that she had to bestow were of the mind.

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

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

I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

I wish with all my heart that you may be the most lovable prince in the world, and I bestow my gift on you as much as I am able.

That which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world.

The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir dogs, so as neither to oblige man nor dogs. It is no wonder if favours, benefits, and even charities thus bestowed ungraciously, should be as coldly and faintly acknowledged.

If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that has not been fully revealed. We see that in actual life He does not treat all alike. For wise reasons known only to Himself He has given to some blessings to which they had no claim…and has withheld from others gifts which He was under no obligation to bestow.

O goddess, bestow on my words an immortal charm.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

Responsibility has more salvation in it than religion can bestow.

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

Do you know why God subjects you to so many miseries? That He may bestow on you the riches of heaven.