G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Give up smoking cold turkey. Start a diet in the next 5 min. Accept that job right away. Life can be beautiful without planning!”
“Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.”
“Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.”
Source: Science And Health
“Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.”
“Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.”
“Give up the feeling of responsibility, let go your hold, resign the care of your destiny to higher powers, be genuinely indifferent as to what becomes of it all and you will find not only that you gain a perfect inward relief, but often also, in addition, the particular goods you sincerely thought you were renouncing.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Give up the filthy habit of associating philosophy with the greeks, and poetry with the english - education that doesn't reflect plural humanity, raises only goodlooking jungle rubbish.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Give-up the giving-up.”
Source: 10 Alone
“Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.”
“Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of what you are and there is the person superimposed on it. All you know is the person, the identity - which is not a person - you do not know, for you never doubted, never asked yourself the crucial question: 'Who am I?'”
“Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him, He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding - He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness.”
“Give up the tyranny of female charm.”
Source: Notebooks, 1935-1942
“Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.”
Source: Bruce Lee The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art
“Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa are at best like big ants trying to carry away a few grains of sugar from a large hea.”
“Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
Source: Selected poems
“Give up trying to be good at stuff that makes you feel bad.”
“Give up trying to convince people who you are, instead confuse them. It is a lot more fun!”
“Give up trying to make me give up”
“Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.”
“Give up your chase of goldmine,
Labor in the caverns of soulmine.
You shall be rich where it really counts,
Beyond the dreams of animalkind.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“Give up your fear of death and no power will have authority over your life.”
Source: The Constitution of The United Peoples of Earth
“Give up your good 'Christian' life and follow Jesus”
“Give up your heart and you lose your way
Trusting another to feel that way.
Give up your heart and you find yourself living for something in somebody else.
Sometimes you wonder what happens to love.
Sometimes the touch of a friend is enough.”
Source: Jackson Browne -- Anthology: Easy Guitar
“Give up your relentless moralizing, the continual pinpricks which pierce the skin of your fellows. The distinction between good and evil is the sickness of the mind. Give up your morals, and the people will regain a love of their fellows.”
“Give up your sins, seek salvation in the Lord.”
“Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.”
Source: Meditations
“Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.”
“Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. Give up from the heart of your hearts”
Source: Personality Development
“Give us a break! I've hardly done anything but independent films.”
“Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.”
“Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.”
“Give us a man of God's own mould
Born to marshall his fellow-men;
One whose fame is not bought and sold
At the stroke of a politician's pen.
Give us the man of thousands ten,
Fit to do as well as to plan;
Give us a rallying-cry, and then
Abraham Lincoln, give us a Man.”
“Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail; the friend faithful and true, the adviser honest and fearless, the adversary just and chivalrous,-in such a one there is a fragment of the Rock of Ages.”
Source: Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church: Vol. 1
“Give us a religion that will help us to live - we can die without assistance.”
“Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I'm pretty sure that would be a better world.”
“Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.”
Source: Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life
“Give us back our tax dollars that we pay for police who do not serve nor protect. Then maybe we can educate our people, make them a better people and make our community a more decent and safe place to live.”
“Give us being and feeling over having any day.”
“Give us courage and gaiety and the quient mind . . .”
“Give us courage and strength and determination to not be afraid.”
Source: RISE UP: Believing God When the World is Falling Apart
“Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.”
Source: Prayers for a Privileged People
“Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.”
“Give us Direction; the best of goodwill; Put us in touch with fair winds. Sing to us softly, hum the evening's song. Tell us what the blacksmith has done for you.”
“Give us enough but with a sparing hand.”
Source: Poetical works
“Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.”
Source: Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860
“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.”
Source: Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings
“Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another.”
Source: Robert Louis Stevenson: His Best Pacific Writings