Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Chesterfield

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

Lord Chesterfield

Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.

Malcolm Forbes

Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

Malcolm Forbes

If you want understanding try giving some.

Malcolm Gladwell

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

Malachy McCourt

They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.

Mahalia Jackson

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

Magic Johnson

Don't give up! Be friends with people who help you work hard.

Magic Johnson

If the community is happy, then they support your business and if your business is doing well, then you can give back even more to the community.

Major Taylor

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.

Maimonides

Nobody is ever impoverished through the giving of charity.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Ideal relationship is based on giving.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If you are open with someone, he will be open with you. If you want love from someone, give your love to him. If you want kind and sympathetic behavior from someone, be kind and sympathetic to him...

Mahatma Gandhi

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

Mahatma Gandhi

... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

Mahatma Gandhi

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

Mahatma Gandhi

I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Gavin DeGraw

I'm no heartthrob. Honestly, I am really happy that people are just giving me a chance and paying attention to what it is I have to say, because I certainly hope I have a lot more to say than I do to look at. That's more important to me.

Gael Garcia Bernal

A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.

Gabrielle Union

But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.

Gabrielle Union

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

Gail Carson Levine

Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.

Gail Collins

I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

French Montana

You can't expect to make all this money and not go through problems. You can't expect God to give you everything you want without taking something away.

Freida Pinto

If a cream can give you confidence then you really have to check your whole confidence department in the first place.

Freya Stark

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

Frank Leahy

Give me a lead of 14-0 at halftime and I will dictate the final score.

Frank Langella

Where you are is where it's at.... Don't ever give up & don't ever give in.

Frank McCourt

You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.