Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. R. R. Tolkien

One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness, a glowing obsession to surmount every obstacle, to find Frodo, destroy the Ring, and cleanse Middle Earth of its festering malignancy. He knew he would try again. Fail, perhaps. And try once more. A thousand, thousand times if need be, but he would not give up the quest.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go

Izabella Scorupco

When I do something I give everything, so it has to be something that I really want to go for.

Izabella Scorupco

I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.

Iyanla Vanzant

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

Iyanla Vanzant

The only relationship we can have in this life is the relationship we have with ourselves. We cannot love anybody more than we love ourselves. We cannot treat anyone any better than we treat ourselves. When you forget you, give up on you, or devalue yourself, anyone coming into your life has a universal responsibility to follow your lead.

Iyanla Vanzant

Life gives you an endless supply of do-overs.

Iyanla Vanzant

It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.

Iyanla Vanzant

Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take time to retreat to that quiet place within the pit of your soul and unleash your right to decide what is best for you.

Iyanla Vanzant

We must learn not to give up when requirements are not met or when commitments are broken. To do so is a refusal to allow mistakes to be corrected and a demonstration of an unwillingness to forgive yourself or anyone else who needs forgiveness.

Iyanla Vanzant

Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!

Iyanla Vanzant

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

Iyanla Vanzant

We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness.

Iyanla Vanzant

It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story

Isaac Hanson

Love is giving up your needs for the sake of someone else, in some other words its sacrifice

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

Isaac Asimov

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.

Immanuel Kant

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

Elon Musk

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.

Elon Musk

For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.

Elton John

You don't know being a performer what kind of performance you're going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I'm much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life.

Elton John

I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

Elton John

You should never take more than you give

Elton John

I find that so many of my peers of my age don't listen to anything new. But I love the new. I love the energy of the new, the energy of the new act. The young are so important. The young give you the energy, and if you don't notice the young, and you don't give them credit and you don't listen to all sorts of music, then you're missing out on something.

Elton John

I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.

Elton John

For me, music is so passionate, I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

Ellen Barkin

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

Ellen DeGeneres

It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially [comedy], it gives me different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me,.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late.

To will what God doth will, that is the only science That gives us any rest.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.