Famous Quotes & Sayings

Napoleon Hill

Understand that the only way to get happiness is by giving it away to others.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If I were to give liberty to the press, my power could not last three days.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.

Norman Schwarzkopf

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side

Norman Schwarzkopf

To be an effective leader, you have to have a manipulative streak - you have to figure out the people working for you and give each tasks that will take advantage of his strength.

Norman McLaren

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

Norman Maclean

Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

Norman Maclean

So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don't know what part to give or maybe we don't like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.

Norman Lear

I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.

Orrin Hatch

Under the Constitution, the president, not the Senate, nominates and appoints judges. The Senate has a different role. We must give our advice .

Orson Welles

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

Origen

The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit

Oriana Fallaci

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Orhan Pamuk

My diary has its own kind of magic. It gives me the feeling of having accomplished something. On days when I don't have time for this, I feel tortured.

Omar Bongo

In spite of our poverty and our economic dependence, we do not have to give in, neither because we are sometimes abandoned nor because of the wish of some nations to impose their economic or political models.

Olivia Goldsmith

As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

Oliver Stone

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!

Octave Mirbeau

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

O. Henry

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

Octavia Butler

Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

Octavia Butler

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.

Octavio Paz

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

Norman Vincent Peale

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

Norman Vincent Peale

Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty.

Norman Vincent Peale

When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.

Norman Vincent Peale

Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.

Norman Vincent Peale

Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.

Norman Vincent Peale

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Norman Vincent Peale

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

Norman Vincent Peale

Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.

Emile Hirsch

If you give an actor any wiggle room to whine in situations where they want to whine, you're gonna whine.