Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lesley Stahl

Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.

Neil Peart

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

Lisa Gardner

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

Pema Chodron

When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

Peter Coyote

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

Peter Capaldi

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

Lee H. Hamilton

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

Larry Niven

Sometimes there's no point in giving up.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

Louis Zamperini

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

Emma Stone

You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think, 'I can't do something because of this, this and this,' you can actually do anything you want. I could go ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart. I could. I'm not going to, because logic is stopping me, but you can do whatever you want. You really can veer off any path at any time - never give up.

Emma Goldman

What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every men would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged.

Gary Cole

But for me, you also have to be conscious of what is going to play. And that includes playing with. Sometimes it's just a vibe. It's what's going to make this scene work. And sometimes there may be something that restricts you that has to do with something that maybe is historically accurate. And then you have to weigh that decision and give up something for a scene to work.

Heikki Kovalainen

I am quite a relaxed person out of the car, but in the car I am aggressive, I never give up, I fight to the end and I try 100% all the time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Diane Warren

A lot of people give up, but you cant stop me. If you close the door, Ill just jump out the window.

David R. Brower

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living.

Chogyam Trungpa

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

Bear Grylls

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than me… and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very different… and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to it…

Carlos Fuentes

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

Cheryl Strayed

The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.

Diana Nyad

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

Dennis Kucinich

America stands strongest in challenging terrorism when we do not give up an inch of our civil liberties.

Alexander Wang

Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.

Homer

If at first you don't succeed, give up.

Dan Scanlon

A lot of times, people say that if you work hard and never give up, it will always work out, which is a great message. However, that's not always the case.

Daphne Oz

I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.

Danielle Steel

I don't want to have to give up me, in order to be his.

Danielle Steel

Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.

Dan O'Brien

Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.

Dan Millman

A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does

Dan Millman

Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.