Definition of Bestowed

Bestowed Quotations

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
Ambrose Bierce

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.
John Locke

What gift has providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?
Marcus Tullius Cicero

To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Samuel Johnson

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
Pearl S. Buck

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place.
Marco Rubio

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it.
Vladimir Nabokov

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.
Johan Huizinga