Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Merton

Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess.

Tony Lema

If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!

Tony Danza

I love to cook and I know a lot of people watching love those segments, but so often they feel rushed to me. If we give 'em a bit more time to breathe, people will get more out of them.

Tommy Hilfiger

I saw my future. I pictured it, but didn't quite know how to get there. But I knew that I should never give up.

Tom Segev

We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).

Tom Segev

Netanyahu adheres to his old position: He doesn't want a Palestinian state, and he doesn't want to give up the settlements and the occupied territories. Pressure from abroad is the only way to change anything.

Stephen Hawking

It matters that you don't just give up,

Ron Paul

Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens. We must come to imagine liberty again, and believe that it can be a reality. We must recapture what it means to be free.

Ron Paul

If you give up on your principles I don’t think that’s being pragmatic... Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isn’t being practical...if you have the right ideas and are forceful enough...I think you can get the support you need.

Ron Paul

We must educate ourselves and others about our precious civil liberties to ensure that we never accept demands that we give up our Constitution so that the government can pretend to protect us.

Ron Paul

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

Ron Paul

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

Rumi

When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

Rumi

You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood.

Rumi

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.

Rosa Parks

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

Susan Ford

Never give up! There's always hope because there's always help

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

sometimes knowing when to give up is the real test of character... -annabelle granger

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

The final cover for Heroes Are My Weakness feels exactly right. It reflects the cold, wintry setting of an isolated island off the coast of Maine and the feisty spirit of a heroine who refuses to give up, even when the odds are stacked against her.

Stirling Moss

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

Stewart Brand

Certain knowledge of what to fight for, and what to fight against, gives meaning to life and provides its own version of discipline: never give up. That kind of meaning is illusory, I now believe, and blinkered. Fealty to a mystical absolute is a formula for disaster, especially in transformative times.

Steve Jobs

Be honest with yourself and with people always do everything on time. Never give up, go to your goals, even if all the bad. In this life, all really, you only need to do. The more I talk to people, the more I am convinced that in general they have one goal - to become the richest dead in the cemetery.

Steve Jobs

Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.

Steve Jobs

Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.

Steve Jobs

Without passion, any rational person would give up!

Steve Jobs

If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

Steve Jobs

You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.

Stephen Fry

You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.

Sri Chinmoy

Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.

Sri Chinmoy

Never give up! Never give up! Physical fitness is of paramount importance. There is no age limit when we live in the heart and when we try to be of prayerful and soulful service to God in the heart of humanity.

Sri Chinmoy

I do not give up, I never give up, For there is nothing In this entire world That is irrevocably unchangeable.

Sri Chinmoy

Never give up hope! Hope ultimately succeeds.