A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.
My name is Leland Tyler Wayne. My mom wanted to give me a name where, no matter what I wanted to do, I’d be able to do it. An astronaut. President. Whatever.
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.
Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it’s the ability to give.
I know life goes on if you make a big bet and you lose. But if you don’t give yourself the best chance of winning, you’re going to kick yourself tomorrow.
I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
If you want to make good use of your time, you’ve got to know what’s most important and then give it all you’ve got.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
Just give me a mic, and I’ll rock it.
I just wanted to speak to the streets and give them motivation on making it out. Whatever situation they’re in, know that they can make do and have a better life.
People come to the stadium to forget their lives for 90 minutes, and it’s up to us to give them satisfaction; to get them out of their chairs and to fall asleep with stars in their eyes.
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years.
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
I am a fighter. I never give up.
Digital communication is completely different from in-person, face-to-face conversations. One will give you surface insights, and the other really gives you depth.
Give me a couple of years, and I’ll make that actress an overnight success.
Yes, the pyramids have been built, but if you give me 300,000 disciplined men and give me 30 years, I could build a bigger one.
A myth is a way of making sense in a senseless world. Myths are narrative patterns that give significance to our existence.
When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things – not the great occasions – that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.
You give before you get.
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.
I will give you the best I have.
Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.
In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let’s kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
That’s one thing you learn in sports. You don’t give up; you fight to the finish.
Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
Although you may get exhausted sometimes, you can still get over it if you have people around you who give you warm words.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
God bless Africa, Guard her people, Guide her leaders, And give her peace.
I’ve had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called ‘a life’ – I’ve refused to give up.
What’s cool is when you’re able to give your audience imagination and you don’t have to cage them in like animals.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.
It does not help when an administration, in response to American attacks on American soil and American individuals, the administration ends up asking Americans to give up their First Amendment rights for which our service members are fighting.
Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.
I asked the producers when I was doing ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don’t expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
It’s very corny, ‘never give up’ – but it’s just a great quote that I always follow.
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.
One of Satan’s most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.
Never, never, never give up.
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically… No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
People have often asked if I’m gay because I don’t go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude.
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
You’re assisting the audience to understand; you’re giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don’t give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it’s almost more pure. It’s a cooler thing.
