Words matter. These are the best Never Quotes from famous people such as Oprah Winfrey, Frederick Douglass, Rick Warren, William Blake, Dag Hammarskjold, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
I never let myself get psyched out. My motto is, ‘Stay calm and carry on.’
Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.
Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.
There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.
We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.
One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.
I never smoke to excess – that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.
If you go around being afraid, you’re never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you’ve got to have fun.
Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.
Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship – never.
Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you’ll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It’s so much more rewarding.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
You’re never too old to start learning, and you’re never too young to aim high and achieve great things.
The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.
Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
The years teach much which the days never know.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
It’s never going to be a smooth sailing ship, there’s going to be ups and downs and I think one of the most important things to understand is not to ride the highs too high and ride the lows too low – it is a marathon and if you can just try to steady the ship as you go.
Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.
Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
The ‘morality of compromise’ sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don’t compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.
Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
It’s good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.
Freedom is never given; it is won.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.
Being hot never hurts!
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It’s possible. And it’s your turn. So go for it. It’s never too late to become what you always wanted to be in the first place.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
I’ve never felt particularly ambitious or driven, that’s for sure, although I like to create stuff, whether it’s a little doodle, a drawing, a small painting or a movie or a piece of music, so I suppose I’m driven by that. Everything I’ve done has felt very natural, and it’s happened because it’s happened.
To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.
