Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tony Dungy

The truth is that most people have a better chance to be uncommon by effort than by natural gifts. Anyone could give that effort in his or her chosen endeavor, but the typical person doesn't, choosing to do only enough to get by.

Tony Campolo

Of the 22 industrialized nations of the world, we're dead last in per capita giving to poor people.

Tommy John

Always give a hundred percent, and you'll never have to second-guess yourself.

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.

Tommy Hilfiger

Always stay focused. Always give and try your best.

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.

Steven Spielberg

I have always admired him (Bergman), and I wish I could be an equally good filmmaker as he is, but it will never happen. His love for the cinema almost gives me a guilty conscience

Steve McQueen

Anything that doesn't make sense, I don't want to give too much of my brain to.

Steve Ballmer

I’d like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.

Stephen Hawking

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

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.

Spencer Grammer

Netflix has such a knack for giving a new life to those B-movies that you thought and hoped no one would ever see. Especially when you have a new project coming out and they're looking to mine some of your lesser-known films.

Spider Robinson

If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first...

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

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

Sigmund Freud

If you can't do it, give up!

Sigmund Freud

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

Sigmund Freud

All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.

Shirley Hazzard

Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.

Shirley MacLaine

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

Sheri Fink

Every day is a great day to give love, spread joy, and SPARKLE!

Shepard Fairey

Every spoof gives more power to the original.

Shawn Colvin

Give me some credit for the hell I've paid.

Shaun White

Having the balance to be able to stay on the board in skating and surfing gives you all-around much better balance.

Shaun White

When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.

Shakti Gawain

Every time you have a desire, in a certain sense you have a goal, something you would like to be, do, or have. Some desires are merely passing fancies, but others stay with us and go deeper. Our desires and our goals give us direction and focus. They help point us down our path of action in our life.

Shakti Gawain

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others.

Sergio Garcia

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.