If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Gratitude is one of the greatest gifts we can give. And it’s not a gift we often give to children. We expect it of them, but we don’t necessarily give it back.
Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.
If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
O never give me over to my own heart’s desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!
Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
I surround myself with good people who make me feel great and give me positive energy.
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Give me five minutes with a person’s checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.
We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
When God created man and woman, he was thinking, ‘Who shall I give the power to, to give birth to the next human being?’ And God chose woman. And this is the big evidence that women are powerful.
When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.
The physical toughness is the obvious – the ability to push through things no matter what’s coming at you, to keep going, to not give in. Never surrender. Usually the victory goes to the guy who can play through it the longest. Of course, the mental part is equally important.
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.
I love spending time with my friends and family. The simplest things in life give me the most pleasure: cooking a good meal, enjoying my friends.
Give light and people will find the way.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Forgiveness isn’t just a blessing you deliver to another human being. Forgiveness is also a gift you give yourself.
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price, and they’ll more likely pay for it rather than steal it. Well, some will still steal it, but I think we can take a bite out of piracy.
When you have a quality mattress, great sheets, and a good duvet with the perfect fill, it all works together to give you the perfect sleep.
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.
I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, ‘You get what you give.’ The more good deeds that you could do in your life, the more fulfilling and enriched your life is going to be. I truly believe that.
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
The most important part are the fans, that people going home are happy. It’s their time off, and you should give them something to enjoy.
Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude… Don’t complain; just work harder… Never give up.
Give a man a free hand and he’ll run it all over you.
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, ‘Who am I?’
You can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.
You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.
We all have to start somewhere, and doing something is better than nothing at all. Start small so you don’t get discouraged and give up. Remember it is all about consistency.
People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
It doesn’t matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There’s something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.
If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.
Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.
Marriage is give and take. You’d better give it to her or she’ll take it anyway.
I would say it simply: No one can give that which he doesn’t personally possess, which means we cannot transmit the Holy Spirit in an effective way, render the Spirit perceptible, if we ourselves aren’t close to the Spirit.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you’re completely free to try anything.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I’ve learned that failure will always come. I’ve learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.
There is no substitute for hard work. Never give up. Never stop believing. Never stop fighting.
Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who do not give way to them.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Instead of getting married again, I’m going to find a woman I don’t like and just give her a house.
The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I’m always myself – jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.
