Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

Michael Schumacher

I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

Michael Ramsey

I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.

Michael Rooker

Actors basically do their thing on the set, and then you put all the pieces together, switch them around, and maybe put them a different way that looks better. We just give him everything he needs, and then he goes in and does his thing.

Mark Twain

Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him.

Marianne Williamson

The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

Marianne Williamson

The love that saves us is not a love that might come to us in the future, but rather the love we can give to whomever is around us right now.

Marianne Williamson

The only thing missing in any situation is that in which you are not giving

Marianne Williamson

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

Marianne Williamson

There's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment, when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.

Marilyn Ferguson

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

Marian Wright Edelman

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

Marian Wright Edelman

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

Marian Wright Edelman

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Give me something to do and you will make me happy.

Maria Cantwell

Because you want to have competition to drive down the price. You want innovation. You have the ability to get people to agree that it's worth having a public plan. You could get private insurers to cover this population, but you couldn't without giving the population leverage in the marketplace.

Margrethe II of Denmark

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it,

Margot Kidder

Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We have no honorable intentions in Vietnam. Our minimal expectation is to occupy it as an American colony and maintain social stability for our investments. This tells why American helicopters are being used against guerrillas in Colombia and Peru. Increasingly the role our nation has taken is the role of those who refuse to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investment.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.... The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber.... To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

Mark Waters

People need to be given enough so that they feel like they're not missing something. There's a thing that you have when you watch a movie where, if you feel like you're not following and you're going to get tested on it later, you're going to get disengaged. So, you have to give people just enough information, so that they're able to keep up with the story.

Mark Victor Hansen

Giving is the insured way of getting.

Mark Victor Hansen

Life gives to the give and takes from the taker.

Mark Victor Hansen

Give bouquets of business. Introduce your clients to each other so they can work and prosper together.

Mark Victor Hansen

When you shut down the giving you shut down the receiving.

Mark Victor Hansen

If you take the credit, you lose it. If you give away the credit, it comes back multiplied.

Mark Victor Hansen

Infinite money is available to a mind that is ready, willing, able, qualified and gives itself permission to earn and accept it.

Mark Victor Hansen

Discover the joy of giving and you will discover the reason for living.

Mark Batterson

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

Mark Batterson

Do you trust that God is for you even when He doesn’t give you what you asked for?

Mark Batterson

Vision beyond your resources? Don't let fear dictate your decisions. If your vision is God-given, it will most definitely be beyond your ability and beyond your resources. The God who gives the vision is the same God who makes provision.