Morten Tyldum Quotes

There is so much that people take for granted.

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Like wealth, or health, political freedom may simply be something that people don't value if they've always had it.

A lot of people who are born here don't appreciate the freedoms we have, the opportunities we have, because they've never had it any other way.

Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

I'm so grateful for where I am now, but I think I'm more grateful because it's been so hard-won; I haven't given up, and I've had plenty of reasons to give up.

My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy.

The man who has bread to eat does not appreciate the severity of a famine.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

My greatest regret would be that I took my success for granted, because it was given to me at such a young age.

You don't appreciate what you have when it all comes to you real quick. I went from nothing to everything all at once.

You sort of take your freedom for granted sometimes.

Success is easy to take for granted.

The conservative vision regards politics more as a matter of gratitude than entitlement - duty over rights. We have inherited so much: a wonderful country, a culture of freedom and abundance, even our life itself, earned through no effort of our own but bequeathed as a gift from our forefathers.

When I grew up, I had everything you could ask for, and I kind of didn't appreciate it. Because it was a given for me. Everybody that grew up in my neighborhood was going to have an opportunity to go to college. I took that for granted. I always regret that.

We can take these things for granted, when we have everything on a plate.

For me, the opportunity to express myself in this way is something I don't take for granted.