| "Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." »Winston Churchill |
| "Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard." »Lois McMaster Bujold |
| "Never give up. If you want to be something, be conceited about it, give yourself a chance. Never say you are not good, that will never get you anywhere. Set goals, That's what life is made of." »Mike McLaren |
| "To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man." »Alan Stewart Paton |
| "Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution." »Anwar el Sadat |
| "Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown." »H. Ross Perot |
| "I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else-I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations." »Elizabeth II |
| "Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don't give up and don't give in." »Wanda Carter |
| "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." »Malcolm X |
| "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery Forbid it, Almighty God I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death" »Patrick Henry |
| "Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough." »George Washington Carver |
| "The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none." »Eden Phillpotts |
| "I have one rule-attention. They give me theirs and I give them mine." »Sister Evangelist |
| "It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film-you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up." »Daniel Day Lewis |
| "Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. give us the tools and we will finish the job." »Winston Churchill |
| "I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "If you have much, give of your wealth if you have little, give of your heart." »Arabic Proverb |
| "I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure try to please everybody all the time." »Herbert Bayard Swope |
| "Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds." »Black Elk |
| "I've always tried to do my best on the ball field. I can't do any more than that. I always try to give one hundred percent and if my team loses, I come back and give one hundred percent the next day." »Jesse Barfield |
| "When you give yourself, you receive more than you give." »Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
| "To give anything less than your best is to give away the gift." »Steve Prefontaine |
| "God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things." »Saint Augustine |
| "Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give." »Damien Hess |
| "CHRIS What's art, Holling Is a Davinci art Dada art If you wrap up the whole Reichstag in toilet paper, is that art HOLLING Well, I can't give you a complete definition, but I think it would be something Maurice would be willing to give good money for. CHRIS Yeah, well, you're starting to scare me cause if that's art, then I got to get a whole new gig." »Jeff Melvoin |
| "Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium." »Henry W. Fowler |
| "give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. give the world your best anyway." »Mother Theresa |
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