Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Jakes

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

John Jay Hooker

The Constitution gives the president the power to appoint, upon the advice and consent of a majority of the Senate, and it plainly does not give a minority of senators any right to interfere with that process.

John James Audubon

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

John James Audubon

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

John Irving

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

John Hickenlooper

In the restaurant business, you never want to have enemies, whereas it seems that many politicians judge their success by how high their enemies are and whether they can show that they can hold their ground and give a punch for every punch they take.

John Heywood

To give importance to trifling matters.

John Heywood

Better to give then to take.

John Heywood

It hurteth not the toung to give faire words.

Give your best to the challenges. And what you get will be even better.

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

The way to transform your immense inner value into outer riches is by giving it freely and authentically to others.

Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

Rainer Maria Rilke

We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent.

Rainer Maria Rilke

You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. Fear not the strangeness you feel. The future must enter you long before it happens. Just wait for the birth, for the the hour of the new clarity.

Rafael Correa

I'm not accustomed to giving advice to those who haven't asked for it.

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.

Serena Williams

With a defeat, when you lose, you get up, you make it better, you try again. That's what I do in life, when I get down, when I get sick, I don't want to just stop. I keep going and I try to do more. Everyone always says never give up but you really have to take that to heart and really do never definitely give up. Keep trying.

Sean Connery

Personally I give us . . . one chance of three.

Mick Jagger

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

Michael W. Smith

Things change when you give your life to serving God, and that can be scary.

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 Pitt

When actors give their input, it can be very ego-driven, and directors are scared of that.

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.

Michael Leunig

The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power relationships such as we see in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Michael Landon

I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Sienna Miller

It's reached this point where people are fascinated by every intricate detail of other people's lives. And some people are willing to give up their lives like that.

Shiv Khera

Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.

Sholom Aleichem

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

Shonda Rhimes

It can be scary to find out you've been wrong about something but we can't be afraid to change our minds, to accept that things are different, that they'll never be the same, for better or for worse. We have to be willing to give up what we used to believe. The more we're willing to accept what is and not what we thought, we'll find ourselves exactly where we belong.

John Henry Newman

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.