Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stewart Brand

Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.

Steve Jobs

Be honest with yourself and with people always do everything on time. Never give up, go to your goals, even if all the bad. In this life, all really, you only need to do. The more I talk to people, the more I am convinced that in general they have one goal - to become the richest dead in the cemetery.

Steve Jobs

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

Steve Jobs

Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.

Steve Jobs

Without passion, any rational person would give up!

Steve Jobs

If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Steve Jobs

You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.

Pearl S. Buck

The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.

Pema Chodron

It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition.

Pema Chodron

When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

Pema Chodron

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

Peter O'Toole

If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it. If you give up drinking, don't go moaning about it; go back on the bottle. Do. As. Thou. Wilt.

Peter Coyote

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

Peter Capaldi

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We have reached a crossroads in human evolution where the only road which leads forward is towards a common passion. . . To continue to place our hopes in a social order achieved by external violence would simply amount to our giving up all hope of carrying the Spirit of the Earth to its limits.

Phyllis Diller

I will never give up. I am in my 14th year of a 10-day beauty plan.

Rabindranath Tagore

The best kind of wealth is to give up inordinate desires.

Queen Latifah

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

Sean Hannity

Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?

Shimon Peres

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

Shari Arison

As I see it, we are all connected and share a stake in our collective future. We are all part of a greater picture. I greatly encourage businesswomen everywhere in the world to take personal responsibility, stay connected to their own intuition and unique potential, work hard, deal with reality, but don't give up.

Seth

We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.

Lewis Thomas

Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?

Lesley Stahl

Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.

Leonard Mlodinow

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

Lemmy Kilmister

My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

Len Wein

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Neil Peart

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

Vanna Bonta

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Vaclav Havel

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

Utah Phillips

You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed.

Susana Martinez

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

Suzanne Collins

The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.