Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Coburn

Statesmen exhibit five key commitments: 1) A commitment to principles above politics; 2) An ability to compromise without abandoning principle; 3) A commitment to truth over spin; 4) A commitment to courage over cowardice; and 5) A commitment, or willingness, to give up power.

Tom Clancy

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

Tobias Wolff

I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being realistic made me feel bitter.

Tim Ferriss

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now...

Tamora Pierce

What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

Tammy Bruce

Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.

Swami Vivekananda

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Swami Vivekananda

The weak, the fearful, the ignorant will never reach the Atman. You cannot undo what you have done; the effect must come. Face it, but be careful never to do the same thing again. Give up the burden of all deeds to God. Give all, both good and bad. God helps those who do not help themselves.

Swami Vivekananda

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

Swami Vivekananda

The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

Swami Vivekananda

We must always remember that God is Love. "A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a little well for water. A fool indeed is the man who, living near a mine of diamonds, spends his life in searching for beads of glass." God is that mine of diamonds. We are fools indeed to give up God for legends of ghosts or flying hobgoblins. It is a disease, a morbid desire.

Rumi

No better love than love with no objective, no more satisfying work than work with no purpose. If you could give up tricks and cleverness, that would be the cleverest trick!

Rumi

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

Tom Robbins

To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?

Todd Haynes

I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for all of it was the bisexual imagination and the androgynous imagination of the Glam era. Because that meant everybody was implicated in this uncertain sense of sexual self, and it meant that everything was unstable. I guess I'm just not that interested in stable notions of identity, whatever they are.

Steve Scalise

Never give up on something you believe in.

The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.

Steve Lacy

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

Steve Almond

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

Stephen Covey

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

Thomas Merton

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

Tony Lema

If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

Tony Danza

I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them.

Tommy Hilfiger

I saw my future. I pictured it, but didn't quite know how to get there. But I knew that I should never give up.

Tom Segev

We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).

Tom Segev

Netanyahu adheres to his old position: He doesn't want a Palestinian state, and he doesn't want to give up the settlements and the occupied territories. Pressure from abroad is the only way to change anything.

Stephen Hawking

It matters that you don't just give up,

Stephen Hawking

It matters if you don't just give up.

Stanislav Grof

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

Stanislaw Lem

The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don't write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.

Sigmund Freud

The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

Sigmund Freud

When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us.

Sigmund Freud

One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.