Never Quotes by Leroy Hood, Hubert H. Humphrey, R. Buckminster Fuller, Douglas MacArthur, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Jefferson and many others.
Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
I eat about two meals a day vegan, is my rule of thumb. When I’m traveling, all bets are off, but I don’t cook meat in the house. I rarely cook eggs. I never use milk. But when I go out to eat for a special treat, I’ll have some meat. But I know, personally, that’s the best I’m ever going to do in my life.
Vintage never fits the way you think it will.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Love is never wrong.
Those who do not complain are never pitied.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
Pain is never permanent.
You never know the plan. You never know what’s going to happen. We are not even promised tomorrow. I just try to focus on one day at a time.
The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.
I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‘Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.’
Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.
Genius must be born, and never can be taught.
Be not afraid of discomfort. If you can’t put yourself in a situation where you are uncomfortable, then you will never grow. You will never change. You’ll never learn.
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.
Our work is never over.
Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn’t methodical, but jazz isn’t messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.
I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. ‘Lord, send me!’
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
Hope will never be silent.
You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.
Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.
Never complain and never explain.
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
People who have never dealt with depression think it’s just being sad or being in a bad mood. That’s not what depression is for me; it’s falling into a state of grayness and numbness.
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: ‘Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.’ ‘I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.’
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.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Sometimes we make the process more complicated than we need to. We will never make a journey of a thousand miles by fretting about how long it will take or how hard it will be. We make the journey by taking each day step by step and then repeating it again and again until we reach our destination.
I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.
Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Never give up on something you believe in.
Money and corruption are ruining the land, crooked politicians betray the working man, pocketing the profits and treating us like sheep, and we’re tired of hearing promises that we know they’ll never keep.
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.
What I’ve never understood is why some women use plastic surgery to make themselves more attractive to men. The most beautiful woman is someone who’s happy and is always smiling.
No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.
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.
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
I never thought I was cute, ever.
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture… Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
Bad luck never lost a race.
I never fall down. I always fight.
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
Be the chief but never the lord.
You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren’t true, but you never hear about the positive.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
You’re never too old to start learning, and you’re never too young to aim high and achieve great things.
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.
You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Everyone has different paths. I’ve been lucky to have a good support system – my family, friends and colleagues to keep me grounded and humble and to keep working hard. I never give up.
If you never change your mind, why have one?
You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don’t outgrow where you come from.
Time flies never to be recalled.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I’ll never be as good as a wall.
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.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
Always the journey, never the destination.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I’d never be able to think the same again – that being a lawyer is something that’s part of who I am as an individual now.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
It’s never too late – in fiction or in life – to revise.
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Genius is never understood in its own time.
You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.
You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Victory is everything. You can spend the money but you can never spend the memories.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.
You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
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.
Even though you’re growing up, you should never stop having fun.
Some stories are true that never happened.
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Never underestimate the power of anyone’s story… anyone’s life.
Luck? I don’t know anything about luck. I’ve never banked on it and I’m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isn’t.
You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.
No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don’t fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
I don’t regret what I’ve been through. I’ve had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I’ve been so blessed that I could never say, ‘I wish this didn’t happen.’ It’s part of who I am. There’s nothing in my life that’s so ugh.
Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we’re making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that’s where the Light wants us to be. It’s the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don’t try to control the situation, then we won’t end up in the place we shouldn’t be.
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Never mistake motion for action.
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.
I’ve never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it’s just spectacular. And it’s true, the people are very beautiful too.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.
I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’
But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
Living with fear stops us taking risks, and if you don’t go out on the branch, you’re never going to get the best fruit.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book – they’re like old friends. Even if you’re not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they’re part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.
Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone.
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.
You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
Believe in yourself and believe in your dreams. Follow them, never give up, that’s the most important thing. If you believe you can get there, then one day you will.
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.
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The game has its ups and downs, but you can never lose focus of your individual goals and you can’t let yourself be beat because of lack of effort.
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.
I see myself as the best footballer in the world. If you don’t believe you are the best, then you will never achieve all that you are capable of.
Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
I believe that if you work hard and you never get to enjoy it then what’s the point. You can’t take any of this with you, the money or nothing. The only thing you can take is experiences, memories and good times, so I like to get amongst it as much as I can.
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
The soul never thinks without a picture.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
I’m a hacker, but I’m the good kind of hackers. And I’ve never been a criminal.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God’s plan seems like it doesn’t make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
Never neglect details. When everyone‘s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
You’re never a loser until you quit trying.
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
It’s good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.
You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.
Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
The power of visibility can never be underestimated.
Art is the window to man’s soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.
Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.
Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
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.
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.
I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.
There’s no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.
The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, ‘You owe me.’ Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
I’ve never been cool – and I don’t care.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
Just keep going. You never know how far you can go.
Being hot never hurts!
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt.
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.
If you never try, you’ll never know what you are capable of.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The time for action is now. It’s never too late to do something.
God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.
Many big and small things happen in our lives, almost on daily basis, and I hope that everyone would not lose the trust that they have in themselves, and never lose positive attitude.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
I never smile unless I mean it.
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.
Life is never easy for those who dream.
I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I’ll never see a tree at all.
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.
It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
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.
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
If you can’t do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
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.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.
We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.
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.
You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.
It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Being happy never goes out of style.
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.
You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
