Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Brigitte Bardot

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

Doris Roberts

I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.

Doris Lessing

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Doris Lessing

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

Colin Powell

It remains our policy to change the regime until such time as the regime changes itself. So far, we cannot be sure that he is cooperating or he [Saddam Hussein] is acting in a way that could give us comfort, or should give the international community comfort, that he is giving up his weapons of mass destruction. He continues to give us statements that suggest he is not in possession of weapons of mass destruction when we know he is.

Daniel Pipes

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

Cynthia McKinney

It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.

Bret Michaels

As far back as I can remember, I am one of those guys that works hard and plays harder. I have to have both.

Dirk Benedict

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

T. Harv Eker

If you are going to work hard anyway, you might as well get rich...and the quicker the better!

Scott Westerfeld

Hard work's a good distraction.

Paula Creamer

I just have to keep working hard.

Lisa Kleypas

I didn't expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it's something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.

Peyton Manning

If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.

Marlon Wayans

I was 160lbs when I started and I went up to 195lbs. There were no steroids. But it was hard work, dedication, hitting the gym. You kind of see it.

Maria Sharapova

When you come off the court and you feel like you were losing the whole match, and all of a sudden you pulled it out, you know, it's those moments that you feel you've trained for and you work hard for. Just lucky to get through.

James Van Allen

My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve a compelling cultural purpose and/or our national interest? Or does human spaceflight simply have a life of its own, without a realistic objective that is remotely commensurate with its costs? Or, indeed, is human spaceflight now obsolete?

James Van Allen

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

Douglas Adams

He had got himself a life. Now he had to find a purpose in it.

Dalai Lama

The purpose of life is to be happy.

Simon Mainwaring

The future of profit is purpose.

Saadi

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, and not life for the purpose of hoarding riches.

Thomas Watson

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Reggie McNeal

You were created on purpose for a purpose.

Thomas Goodwin

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.