Giving Quotes - Page 473

Be persistent and never give up. I had to deal with facing stereotypes and had a lot of people doubt me and my ability to drum, but I didn't let it phase me. You just have to believe in yourself. And of course, PRACTICE.

Our strategy was to give Judge Hoffman a heart attack. We gave the court system a heart attack, which is even better.

God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.

From David learn to give thanks for everything. Every furrow in the book of Psalms is sown with the seeds of thanksgiving.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

I feel that one of the greatest gifts you can give someone is the truth, but sometimes my words will get stuck on the way out.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

Yoga calms me down. It gives me energy and focus.

Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. Give priesthood blessings. And bear your testimony!

If President Young wants my wives I will give them to him without a grumble, and he can take them whenever he likes.

nothing is stronger or better founded than the sentiments for which we can give no reason.

Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it.

Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

O singers, resinous and soft your songsAbove the sacred whisper of the pines,Give virgin lips to cornfield concubines,Bring dreams of Christ to dusky cane-lipped throngs.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

I'm here to tell you that a champion is someone who has fallen off the horse a dozen times and gotten back on the horse a dozen times. Successful people never give up.

Modesty is to merit, what shade is to figures in a picture; it gives it strength and makes it stand out.

Politeness does not always inspire goodness, equity, complaisance, and gratitude; it gives at least the appearance of these qualities, and makes man appear outwardly, as he should be within.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

According to the L.A. Times, Attorney General John Ashcroft wants to take "a harder stance" on the death penalty. What's a harder stance on the death penalty? We're already killing the guy? How do you take a harder stance on the death penalty? What, are you going to tickle him first? Give him itching powder? Put a thumbtack on the electric chair?