Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Maggie Stiefvater

I can't tell the difference," I said. "Between not fighting and giving up.

Maggie Stiefvater

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

Haruki Murakami

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

Haruki Murakami

I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.

Hans Rosling

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

Gustave Flaubert

I have no use for the kind of God who goes walking in his garden with a stick, sends his friends to live in the bellies of whales, gives up the ghost with a groan and then comes back to life three days later!

Gordon Ramsay

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create; for he is making an outline and a shape. Mohamet created, when he forbade wine but allowed five wives: he created a very big thing, which we have still to deal with.

John M. Ford

I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

John Lydon

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

John Lewis

Don`t give up! Don`t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!

John Lewis

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

John Lewis

If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe that if your consistent, you will succeed

John Leguizamo

When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it." Then you feel, "I can do it too."

Julie Bishop

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

Judith Martin

Nobody believes that the man who says, 'Look, lady, you wanted equality,' to explain why he won't give up his seat to a pregnant woman carrying three grocery bags, a briefcase, and a toddler is seized with the symbolism of idealism.

Josh Groban

Don't give up. It's just the weight of the world.

Joyce Meyer

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

Joyce Meyer

When you walk in love, you give up your right to be right.

Joyce Meyer

A person who refuses to give up will always succeed eventually.

Joyce Meyer

Having a rough day? Place your hand over your heart. Feel that? It's called purpose. You're alive for a reason. Don't give up

Joyce Meyer

Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success!

Joyce Meyer

God has blessed me in many ways. Money is not the greatest blessing you can have, but I literally had absolutely nothing. The first message that I preached at Life in the Word, I had to borrow a suit from my pastor's wife, because I didn't have any decent clothes, and I was driving a 20-year-old car. We went through a lot of years of having nothing, sleeping in McDonald's parking lots, because we didn't have money to stay all night in a hotel. But, like anybody else who works hard and is diligent and doesn't quit and doesn't give up, there is a day the blessings come.

Katharine Whitehorn

It might be marvelous to be a man - then I could stop worrying about what's fair to women and just cheerfully assume I was superior, and that they had all been born to iron my shirts. Better still, I could be an Irish man - then I would have all the privileges of being male without giving up the right to be wayward, temperamental and an appealing minority.

Judy Blume

You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand." "If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.