Famous Quotes & Sayings

Warren G. Bennis

If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

Warren Farrell

To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.

Ronald Reagan

There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.

Ronald Reagan

Freedom is the very essence of our nation. To be sure, ours is not a perfect nation. But even with our troubles, we remain the beacon of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. Never give up the fight for freedom - a fight which, though it may never end, is the most ennobling known to man.

Saint Francis de Sales

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

Saint Francis de Sales

By giving yourself to God, You not only receive Himself in exchange, but eternal life as well.

Saint Francis de Sales

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.

Saint Augustine

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

Saint Augustine

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

Saint Augustine

Give what You command and command what You will.

Saint Augustine

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

Saint Augustine

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud.

Saint Augustine

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

Saint Augustine

We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.

Saint Augustine

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

Saint Augustine

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

Yanni

You have to give up some of the old so that you can make room for the new.

Wiz Khalifa

Relationships are like drugs. They either kill you or give you the best feeling of your life.

Wiz Khalifa

I don't have much but I take all I got and that's what I give, what I get in return is the money I earn and the life I live.

Wiz Khalifa

The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win.

Winston Churchill

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.

Winston Churchill

It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.

Wilma Mankiller

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

Will Self

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

Will Rogers

Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.

Will Rogers

So the question rises: How much liberty can you get away with? Well, you get no more liberty than you give!

Will Rogers

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

Will Rogers

The high income tax come pretty near passing in the Senate. Only lacked about six votes. So it won't be long now. Well, there is millions and millions that are not making it, that would be glad to give up 99 per cent if you would let 'em earn a hundred thousand or more.

Will Rogers

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.

Will Rogers

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

Warren Farrell

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

W. Eugene Smith

My photographs at best hold only a small length, but through them I would suggest and criticize and illuminate and try to give compassionate understanding.