David Levithan Quotes

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

Bollywood has not utilised my potential! But unfortunately, we can't plan and have things our way.

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

We start with gifts. Merit comes from what we make of them.

You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you.

I believe this, we are all gifted for the talent - God blesses everybody with a talent. Mine was to play football. Some are to be scientists. Some are to be doctors. Sometimes because of the situation you grow up in, you can never display your talent because you can't get out of that situation.

When it comes to opportunities, your father or mother can only set up a meeting for you. However, your opportunities will only materialise if the star kid is talented or suits the role.

You are given certain skills, and if you don't use them effectively, you are being irresponsible.

It's funny: there's this idea where Kenny is only good because he can do what he wants, and he gets time. Well, everyone else through those doors had had time and opportunity. Why didn't they do anything special?

If you have the talent, you should have the opportunity.

I've been blessed with everything I have, and I might as well share it.

I have always considered myself as a privileged person from a kind of elite among the lucky ones. So I think we should help all those who have not had the luck I have had, to use my fame to help.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

My riches are my family and my foster children. I try to store any material wealth in my hand, not my heart, so that I always feel free to give it away when the opportunity arises.

Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.

I suppose it is one time when you can really use your name to raise money. And if I am going to use it for anything, what more of a better opportunity (than) to use it here.

Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.

No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.

Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.

But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?

You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.

My whole concept in life is if you're not using it, you should give it to somebody else so they can use it.