Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Steinem

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

Gloria Steinem

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Geraldine Ferraro

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

Harry Mathews

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

Harry Reid

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

Nancy Lopez

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

Mukesh Ambani

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

Kemmons Wilson

Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up.

Keisha Castle-Hughes

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

Katherine Paterson

You gotta know someone cares about you, or you just give up.

Kate Chopin

I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.

Kate Chopin

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

Keith O'Brien

I've liked women but I've never felt I wanted to give up my life completely. I've never wanted to go to bed with anybody.

Keith Richards

I only get ill when I give up drugs

Kevin Powers

I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.

Michael Irvin

You tell everyone or anyone that has ever doubted, thought they didn't measure up or wanted to quit - look up get up and don't ever give up.

Michael Irvin

Look up, get up and don't ever give up.

Michael Emerson

What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing to give up whatever they may have come with. So it's still quite a stretch for African Americans, yeah.

Michael Emerson

If you move here from somewhere else, I often think if I move to Germany, for example, or if I move China and I go worship there I will understand and I'll be willing to give up a lot of my culture because I'm in somebody else's homeland. So I'm going to have to act German or Chinese, whatever that might mean.

Ray Bradbury

That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.

Randy Pausch

If you want something bad enough, never give up (and take a boost when offered).

Randa Abdel-Fattah

We have to choices in this world; we either try to survive or to give up.

Rand Paul

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

Rand Paul

I think what we've had in the past is the government has said, "Well, we need to collect the whole haystack." And the haystack is Americans' privacy. Every Americans' privacy. We have to give up all of our privacy.

Rand Paul

Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?

Rand Paul

If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

Serena Williams

I just never give up. I fight to the end. You can't go out and say, 'I want a bag of never-say-die spirit.' It's not for sale. It has to be innate.

Mick Jagger

I have never wanted to give up performing on stage, but one day the tours will be over.

Michael Phelps

I have had extreme ups and downs. The biggest thing I learned after I broke my wrist is to never give up. Nothing in life will ever come easy. It depends on how you deal with those obstacles and how you overcome those obstacles. If you can overcome them, you're a stronger person. If you make mistakes along the way, as long as you never make that same mistake again, you're a successful person.

Michael Pollan

There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.