Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Rogers

I believe that at the center of the universe there dwells a loving spirit who longs for all that’s best in all of creation, a spirit who knows the great potential of each planet as well as each person, and little by little will love us into being more than we ever dreamed possible. That loving spirit would rather die than give up on any one of us.

Frank Herbert

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

Harold Brodkey

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

Greg Maddux

People judge too much by results. I'm just the opposite. I care about more than results. I'd rather make a good pitch and give up a bloop single than make a bad pitch and get an out.

Jessica Biel

I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

Jessica Capshaw

I'll never give up my Dior mascara.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Never give in and never give up.

Iris Dement

My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!

Iris Johansen

In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

Irvin D. Yalom

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Iris Murdoch

Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Imre Lakatos

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

Idries Shah

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

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.

Izabella Scorupco

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Hugh Laurie

I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.

Gloria Steinem

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

Gloria Steinem

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

Geraldine Ferraro

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?

Harry Mathews

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

Harry Reid

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

J. K. Rowling

The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.