Quotes

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. – Thomas Jefferson

A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer lives are based on the labors of other people, living and dead, and that I must exert myself to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. – Albert Einstein

A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you. – Rumi

A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he gives up. – Unknown

A million light years and a million more would not give time enough to store that small second of eternity when I took you in my arms and you took me in yours. – Jacques Prévert

A winner is someone who recognizes his talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses those skills to accomplish his goals. – Larry Bird

Act instead of wait. Acting makes the suspense bearable. It gives you a starring role. Time passes more quickly. Best of all, it makes possible your dance with life as you network and mingle with other dancers. – Mike Dooley

Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and to move forward with your life. – David Burns

Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. – Zig Ziglar

And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who loved only trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Ask, and it will be given to you. – Word masters

Awareness gives you the power to decide what serves you, and discard what doesn’t. – Beat Schindler

Being on time when the rest of the world is behind gives the impression of being ahead. – Jean-Luc Godard

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they’re given wings. – Rumi

Books give delight to the very marrow of one’s bones. They speak to us, consult with us and join with us in a living and intense intimacy. – Petrarch

Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control. – Terence McKenna

Creativity comes from the freedom to fail and the freedom to fail comes from experience and that gives the few individuality. – Peter Gabriel

Curiosity and learning are like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why you do it. – Beat Schindler

Everybody has a given amount of calories to burn up. You either burn them up by living or by creating. You can’t burn the same I calories both ways. You make poetry out of your unhappiness, and you might argue that you can also make poetry out of your happiness. But why should you make poetry when you are happy instead of living it out? Creativity is a secondary expression. The primary expression is living. – Arthur Koestler

Everybody has been given an endowment that he must strive to develop in the service of mankind. This cannot be brought to completion through the threat of a God who will punish man for sin, but only by challenging the best in human nature. – Albert Einstein    

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lesson afterward . – Unknown

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote

Forgive ourselves over and over and over again. Then decide to do better next time. – Epictetus

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. –  John F. Kennedy

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. – Anne Lamott

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet shed on the heel that quenched it. – Mark Twain

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives. – Alexandre Dumas

Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life’s greatest gifts. – Napoleon Hill

Generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. – Albert Camus

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truths for yourself. – Vilfredo Pareto

Give me the madman’s sudden insight and the child’s spiritual dignity. – Theodore Roethke

Give me your mouth so I can die on your lips. – Rumi

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get disparaged and ridiculed. Give the world the best you’ve got anyway. – Mother Theresa

Give yourself something to work toward constantly. – Mary Kay Ash

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. – P.J. O’Rourke

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else’s head. – Malcolm Gladwell

Happiness in not having a lot. Happiness is giving a lot. – Buddha

Happiness is often the only thing that can be given without having it, and it is by giving it that it is acquired. – Voltaire

However much you give, more than that will be given to you. – Mike Dooley

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them. – Galileo Galilei

I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. Such an ethical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals which have guided my way, and time after time have given me the energy to face life, have been kindness, beauty, and truth. – Albert Einstein

I have no loved one, no house, no place to lead a life. All the things to which I give myself grow rich and spend me. – Rainer Maria Rilke

I were given eight hours to chop down a tree, I would spend the first seven sharpening my saw. – Abraham Lincoln

If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. – Bob Marley

If the world finally gives you praise, it won’t be from the people you originally had in mind. – Hugh Macleod

If you give a boy a hammer, the whole world becomes a nail. – Unknown

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. – Lao Tzu

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. – Buckminster Fuller

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. – Muhammad Ali

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. – Voltaire

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us. – Hora Edwards

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. – Doug Larson

It is always easier to get forgiveness than to get permission. – Banksy

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do”. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s easier to forgive your enemies than to forgive your friends. – Unknown

It’s madness … to hate all roses because you got scratched by one thorn, to give up all your dreams because one did not come true, to lose faith in prayers because on was not answered. It’s madness to give up on your efforts because one of them failed, to condemn all your friends because one of them betrayed, not to believe in love because someone was unfaithful. Remember that another chance may come up. A new friend, a new love, a new life. Never give up on your wings. Never give up on anything. – Pravsworld

It’s not the dazzling voice that makes a singer. Or clever stories that make a writer. And it’s not piles of money that give you power.  It’s having a dream so strong you rather go for it and fail than succeed with anything less. You so have what it takes. – Mike Dooley

I’ve given up on my brain. I’ve torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. – Rumi

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. – Ella Fitzgerald

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu

Late one night, just blocks from the Capitol, a mugger jumped into the path of a well-dressed fellow and stuck a gun in his ribs. “Give me your money” the thief demanded. “Are you kidding?” the man said. “I’m a U.S. congressman.” “In that case” the mugger growled, cocking his weapon “Give me my money. – Playboy Magazine

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. – Peter Ustinov

Many come close yet few dare, so boldly, to live without judgment, to give without expecting, and to love for no reason. – Mike Dooley

Men fall deepest in love with women who give them back their own image. – Marshall McLuhan

Most people would rather get than give affection. – Aristoteles

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. – Plato

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. It is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. – Coco Chanel

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. – Abraham Lincoln

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. – Albert Einstein

No one would think of keeping a (musical) chord to himself. You’d give it to anyone who wanted it. – John Cage

Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don’t really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth’s atmosphere to a company as a monopoly. – Marshall McLuhan

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away. – Stephen Hawking

Perhaps our heart is made of the answer that is never given. – René Char

Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it. – Richard P. Feynman

See, there’s bravery in this world. There’s 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we breathe has to be given back. A 9-year-old boy taught me that. – Shane Koyczan

Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. The only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take. – Tony Robbins

Sometimes you have to give up on people. Not because you don’t care, because they don’t . – Unknown

Sticking to it is the genius! Any other bright- minded fellow can accomplish just as much as I did if he will stick like hell and remember nothing that’s any good works by itself. You got to make the damn thing work. I’ll never give up, for I may have a streak of luck before I die. –  Thomas Edison

Success is giving what you want. – Unknown

Tend yourself to others but give yourself to yourself. – Michel De Montaigne

The best way to forgive is not to blame. – Mike Dooley

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed. – Henry Ford

The mental is muscular that gives you a certain stride as you walk along the dismal landscape of your thoughts. You have a certain kind of tone to your activity. But most of the time it doesn’t help. It’s just hard work. – Leonard Cohen

The minute you learn how to give is the minute you become successful. – Hugh Macleod

The non-violent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them a new self-respect. It calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had. Finally, it reaches the opponent and so stirs his conscience that reconciliation becomes reality. – Martin Luther King Jr.

The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take away. – John Strider Coleman

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have always known. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

The rules of love, they really are severe. If you’re giving up everything for something, then give up everything for something and stay with it with your mind on where you’re going. – Joseph Campbell

The secret to living is giving. – Tony Robbins

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. – Mahatma Gandhi

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard. There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen. There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted. – Sun Tzu

This we ask as you leave us, that you speak to us and give us your truth. And we will give it unto our children, and they unto their children, and it shall not perish. – Kahlil Gibram

To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person. – Paul Zane Pilzer

To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science. – Richard Feynman

We are not given a good life or a bad life.  We are given a life. It’s up to us to make it good or bad. – Unknown

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. – Plato

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What is to give light must endure burning. – Victor Frankel

Women who can only give all or nothing don’t know the meaning of pleasure. – Colette

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it’s just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it. – David Sedaris

You cannot give happiness without having it. That’s how you acquire it. – Voltaire

You don’t know how much you have to give until you start trying to give. The more you try to give effectively to advantage others, the more you will possess to give, and vice versa. – Buckminster Fuller 

You give little when you give of your possessions. It’s when you give of yourself that you truly give. – Kahlil Gibran

You have to give yourself what you needed when you were a kid, and give your kids what they need now. – Austin Kleon

You should never leave the site of a goal or an idea without figuring out some way to apply it immediately. That gives you power. – Tony Robbins

Your work is to discover your work, and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. – Buddha