Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henri Nouwen

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a single-minded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature. Solitude is a place where Christ remodels us in his own image and frees us from the victimizing compulsions of the world.

Heikki Kovalainen

I am quite a relaxed person out of the car, but in the car I am aggressive, I never give up, I fight to the end and I try 100% all the time.

Heston Blumenthal

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

Helen Rowland

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

Henry Cloud

To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

Helen Thomas

I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Jim Morrison

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.

Eric Thomas

You can't quit or give up before you get it!

Eric Davis

Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control.

Emmanuel Jal

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

Emma Stone

You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think, 'I can't do something because of this, this and this,' you can actually do anything you want. I could go ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart. I could. I'm not going to, because logic is stopping me, but you can do whatever you want. You really can veer off any path at any time - never give up.

Emma Goldman

What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every men would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged.

John Mellencamp

I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.

John Mellencamp

Most people in life, give up too early.

John Jakes

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

John James Audubon

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Hayao Miyazaki

[on the future of hand-drawn animation] I'm actually not that worried. I wouldn't give up on it completely. Once in a while there are strange, rich people who like to invest in odd things. You're going to have people in the corners of garages making cartoons to please themselves. And I'm more interested in those people than I am in big business.

Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.

Hal Sparks

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

Gretchen Rubin

I've noticed that a lot of people do much better when all their resolutions are framed as 'Yes.' Not something like, "I'm going to give up French Fries," but something like "I'm going to eat three vegetables every day." "I'm going to hug more, kiss more, touch more." "I'm going to listen to more music." They do better when they frame things in the positive. And I think this is just part of human nature.

Georges St-Pierre

Nick Diaz is a champion so he's got the spirit that comes with it. So he's not going to give up mentally. You see a lot of guys give up mentally and that's why they get knocked out or submitted. They give up mentally before they lose.

Herbert Spencer

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

Henry David Thoreau

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

Henry David Thoreau

Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but is irresistable when it clogs by its whole weight. If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however, ancient, can be trusted without proof. ... Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Jillian Michaels

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

Jessica Lynch

I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.

Jessica Hahn

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

Jerry Falwell

Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.

Estelle

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

Ethel Merman

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.