Famous Quotes & Sayings

You can only get what is yours by giving the other person what is his.

The kids are not happy about all these changes. They're giving us a terrible time.

Camilo Villegas

You've got to put it in play out here. There is no need to start throwing it off line and giving shots away.

John Baldwin

The goal was to have no regrets. I regret not focusing, giving her the height she needs. But I don't think we should be upset about anything. I didn't think we'd make it this far.

The global war on terror has required our soldiers to make great sacrifices, but it has also required patience. Thank you, all of you, for giving soldiers the support they deserve.

Colin Angle

This is all about giving people time back and improving their quality of life.

This is a historic occasion and I'm giving my contribution.

Eric Kripke

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

Eric Idle

I used to collect Persian rugs and real estate - you should be able to walk on and live in your money. I had to give up the rugs because I'm allergic to mould.

Eric Idle

I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].

Eric Idle

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

Eric Hoffer

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.

Eric Hoffer

When the weak want to give an impression of strength they hint menacingly at their capacity for evil. It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak.

Eric Hoffer

Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

Eric Hoffer

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

The ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yet to discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not whither they are going, and give chance a chance.

Eric Hoffer

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. It not infrequently happens that those who hunger for hope give their allegiance to him who offers them a grievance.

Eric Hoffer

Action can give us the feeling of being useful, but only words can give us a sense of weight and purpose.

Eric Hoffer

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Eric Hoffer

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Eric Berne

Each person designs his own life, freedom gives him the power to carry out his own designs, and power gives the freedom to interfere with the designs of others.

Enoch Powell

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle.

Emmett Shear

Sales is this cure all for this problem. Get people to give you their credit card and I guarantee you they're actually interested.

James Clavell

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

James Cash Penney

Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public.

James Cook

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

Napoleon Hill

Faith is indispensable for success. Faith is induced and strengthened by the instructions you give your subconscious mind.

Napoleon Hill

Those who can't take directions graciously have no business giving them

Napoleon Hill

The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A few carry on DESPITE all opposition, until they attain their goal. These few are the Fords, Carnegies, Rockefellers, and Edisons. There may be no heroic connotation to the word persistence, but the quality is to the character of man what carbon is to steel.

Napoleon Hill

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.

Napoleon Hill

Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.

Napoleon Hill

The best way to succeed in this world is to act on the advice you give to others.

Napoleon Hill

You give before you get.