Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laurence J. Peter

When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

Lee Westwood

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

Leigh Hunt

It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.

Lauren Tarshis

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.

Lauren Weisberger

But I cheered myself up slightly with the rationalization that all new relationships - even the fictional ones - have obstacles to overcome in the beginning. I would not give up hope on this one. Not yet.

Lauren Myracle

When you make a solemn promise to a friend, it ain't right to go back on it. No. Never let your friend down, never break a trust, and when you give your word, never go back on it. -Sheriff Andy Taylor

Lauren Myracle

I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.

Nicholas Sparks

In a nutshell, loving someone is about giving, not receiving.

Neal A. Maxwell

The dues of discipleship are high indeed, and how much we can take so often determines how much we can then give.

Neal A. Maxwell

Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.

Neal A. Maxwell

The Lord has said, ‘I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.’ (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.

Neal A. Maxwell

The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain.

Neal A. Maxwell

As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.

Neal A. Maxwell

To be cheerful when others are in despair, to keep the faith when others falter, to be true even when we feel forsaken—all of these are deeply desired outcomes during the deliberate, divine tutorials which God gives to us—because He loves us. These learning experiences must not be misread as divine indifference. Instead, such tutorials are a part of the divine unfolding.

Neal A. Maxwell

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

Natasha Henstridge

Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.

Muhammad Yunus

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.

Mr. T

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory!

Muhammad Iqbal

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Muhammad Ali

Do not be ashamed to give a little; for to deceive is to give still less.

Muhammad Ali

I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.

Mitchell Hurwitz

I could vomit, right this moment. I literally could vomit on cue. Yes. Here's the truth of that. We didn't have a big audience, obviously, when we made the show. Very early on, we made a decision that we were going to try to give the fans and the people that were loyal to us something that they felt was special.

Mitch Hedberg

My friend said to me, You know what I like? Mashed potatoes. I was like, Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause.

Mitch Hedberg

I opened-up a yogurt, underneath the lid it said, "Please try again." because they were having a contest that I was unaware of. I thought maybe I opened the yogurt wrong. ...Or maybe Yoplait was trying to inspire me... "Come on Mitchell, don't give up!" An inspirational message from your friends at Yoplait, fruit on the bottom, hope on top.

Mikey Way

Every tour is different. We like to give people a piece of something.

Mikey Way

We give people a taste of different eras of us, it's kind of like a mix-tape of us.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.

Marilyn Ferguson

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.

Marian Wright Edelman

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

Marian Wright Edelman

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

Marian Wright Edelman

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Give me something to do and you will make me happy.