Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Goodall

Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you can demarcate a national park, but if the people outside want to go creeping into a forest you really can't stop them. They've got to get a benefit.

Jane Goodall

Just remember--if you are really and truly determined to work with animals, somehow, either now or later, you will find a way to do it. But you have to want it desperately, work hard, take advantage of an opportunity--and never give up.

Jane Goodall

It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.

Jamie Bell

TV is a big business. In some ways, it's surpassed films, in terms of the way people invest in these shows and invest in these characters, and give up so much of their time to follow these people's stories.

Denzel Washington

We live in a time when people give up too easy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let us not give up. Let us be true to our covenants. Let us never lose sight of our Advocate and Redeemer as we walk toward Him, one imperfect step after another.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.

Diana Nyad

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

Dennis Kucinich

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

Elizabeth Kostova

And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?

Charles Dickens

Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead

Charles Spurgeon

I have noticed that whenever a person gives up his belief in the Word of God because it requires that he should believe a good deal, his unbelief requires him to believe a great deal more. If there be any difficulties in the faith of Christ, they are not one-tenth as great as the absurdities in any system of unbelief which seeks to take its place.

Charles Spurgeon

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.

Alan Watts

For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found in giving up any belief in the idea of God.

Alan Paton

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Alan Moore

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.

Alain Robert

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

Al Ries

The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.

Al Sharpton

I've seen too much in life to give up.

Akon

As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are often hindered from giving up our treasures to the Lord out of fear for their safety; this is especially true when those treasures are loved relatives and friends. But we need have no such fears. Our Lord came not to destroy but to save. Everything is safe which we commit to Him, and nothing is really safe which is not so committed.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.

Dhirubhai Ambani

Don't give up, courage is my conviction.

David McIntosh

When you constantly push your mind and body in your chosen field and never give up your confidence will be unshatterable!

David R. Brower

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

Caitlin Kittredge

You can't give up on me. If you give up, then I'm going to break into a million pieces. I'm here. I'll give you everything I've got.

C. Wright Mills

Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.

Bryan Ferry

I didn't really want to give up music.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We all give up great expectations along the way.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

Cal Thomas

Asking politicians to give up a source of money is like asking Dracula to forsake blood.