Bestow Quotes

In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift-a more human face. (Steve Biko)
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. View quote
John Updike
Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. View quote
John Adams
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. View quote
Joseph Addison
As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Women bestow on friendship only what they borrow from love. View quote
Nicolas Chamfort
Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing. View quote
Baltasar Gracián
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. Miss C. F. Forbes, (18171911). View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Actions speak louder than words. In the days to come the Goddess of Victory will bestow her laurels only on those who prepared to act with daring. (Heinz Guderian)
The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. View quote
Richard Nixon
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestow Upon that God who knows what I would know. View quote
Theodore Roethke
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. View quote
Edward Gibbon
Bestow therefore thy youth so, that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. View quote
Walter Raleigh
Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
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. View quote
Davy Crockett
It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman. View quote
Michael Chabon
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)
Bestow rewards without respect to customary practice; publish orders without respect to precedent. Thus you may employ the entire army as you would one man. View quote
Sun Tzu
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. View quote
Anne Brontë
O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
The most important seed I can sow in this life is my children, and the love and knowledge that I can bestow upon them and the help I can give them. View quote
Steven Seagal