Taken For Granted Quotes

• I have learned that some of the nicest people you'll ever meet are those who have suffered a traumatic event or loss. I admire them for their strength, but most especially for their life gratitude - a gift often taken for granted by the average person in society.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Gratitude, Taken, Loss

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• In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

  Bertrand Russell

  Leadership, Thank You, Thankful

  "Bertrand Russell's Greatest Paradox was His Faith" by Dan Delzell, www.christianpost.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.

  Joyce Brothers

  Friendship, Taken, Mean

  "On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Most Infamous Blondes" by Paula Munier, (p. 69), 2004.

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• Being taken for granted is an unpleasant but sincere form of praise. Ironically, the more reliable you are and the less you complain, the more likely you are to be taken for granted.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Taken, Complaining, Praise

  Gretchen Rubin (2016). “The Best of the Happiness Project Blog: Ten Years of Happiness, Good Habits, and More”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• Your talent is your art. It is not to be taken for granted.

  Paula Abdul

  Art, Taken, Talent

  FaceBook post by Paula Abdul from Mar 25, 2012

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• Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Life Is Too Short

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2014

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• Nothing is going to be handed to you -- you have to make things happen.

  Florence Griffith Joyner

  Change, Life Changing, Action

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• One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

  Edward de Bono

  Motivational, Powerful, Taken

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.

  Audre Lorde

  Gratitude, Taken, Victory

  Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: and Other Essays”, p.115, Courier Dover Publications

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• The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

  Edward de Bono

  Powerful, Taken, Creativity

  Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• Everyone has experienced that truth: that love, like a running brook, is disregarded, taken for granted; but when the brook freezes over, then people begin to remember how it was when it ran, and they want it to run again.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Running, Taken

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• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

  Iris Murdoch

  Relationship, Happiness, Marriage

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.148, Penguin

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• The way you discover your gifts is really by serving not by searching.

  Loren Cunningham

  God, Discovery, Over You

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• All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Taken, Greatness, Want

  ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

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• Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

  Aldo Leopold

  Taken, Sunset, Wind

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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• No relationships should be taken for granted. They are what life is all about, the whole point. How we cultivate our relationships is often the greatest determinant of the type of life we get to live.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Taken, Life Is, Granted

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy (Enhanced Edition)”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• One day I found out that personal history was no longer necessary for me and, like drinking, I dropped it... Little by little you must create a fog around yourself; you must erase everything around you until nothing can be taken for granted, until nothing is any longer for sure, or real. Your problem now is that you're too real. Your endeavors are too real, your moods are too real. Don't take things so for granted. You must begin to erase yourself.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Real, Drinking, Taken

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• Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christmas, Gratitude, Taken

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• I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Taken, Dull, Today

  Wyndham Lewis (1969). “Wyndham Lewis: an anthology of his prose”

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• Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Past, Should Have

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.

  Lesley M. M. Blume

  Taken, People, Realizing

  Lesley M. M. Blume (2008). “Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters”, p.102, Yearling

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• Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Life, Taken, Passion

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• I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

  Michael Craig-Martin

  Art, Book, Shoes

  Source: briansherwin-artcritic.blogspot.com

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• Ive never taken for granted what weve had, not for one single game, not one single practice, ... Ive truly been blessed.

  Peyton Manning

  Blessed, Taken, Practice

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