Top 470 Never Quotes

Here we have the best Never Quotes from famous authors such as Khalil Gibran, Joey Adams, Galileo Galilei, Winston Churchill, Mike Ditka. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.

Joey Adams
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei
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.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

You’re never a loser until you quit trying.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

I’ll never forget where I’m from. It’s essential to remain humble and evolving.

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.

Morris West
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Babe Ruth
Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.

Henry Grunwald
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

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.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

D Elton Trueblood
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

Elisabeth Rohm
You can never plan the future by the past.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.

Bullying is never fun, it’s a cruel and terrible thing to do to someone. If you are being bullied, it is not your fault. No one deserves to be bullied, ever.

Raini Rodriguez
In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God’s nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, ‘Do as You promised.’

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

I am not bisexual. I am not gay. I have never had sex with men.

Your body is like a piece of dynamite. You can tap it with a pencil all day, but you’ll never make it explode. You hit it once with a hammer: Bang! Get serious. Do 40 hard minutes, not an hour and half of nonsense. It’s so much more rewarding.

The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.

Chelsea Leyland
Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

Ken Hill
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper. Everything can have drama if it’s done right. Even a pancake.

Never make a decision when you are upset, sad, jealous or in love.

Mario Teguh
Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse.

Humphrey Bogart
Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

Amelia Earhart
You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

If you’re so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

The journey is never ending. There’s always gonna be growth, improvement, adversity; you just gotta take it all in and do what’s right, continue to grow, continue to live in the moment.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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.

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.

Ralph Bunche
I’ve never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I’ve gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I’m irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that’s how new relationships usually begin.

Ariel Gore
Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Clara Barton
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

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.

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.

Vintage never fits the way you think it will.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody elsemeans to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

e e cummings
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

Margot Fonteyn
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 photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

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.

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.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business.

Dolley Madison
Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

Always wear cute pyjamas to bed, you’ll never know who u will meet in your dreams.

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

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Winning is fun… Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.

Pat Summitt
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

The world has changed and it’s going to keep changing, but God never changes; so we are safe when we cling to Him.

Democracy is messy, and it’s hard. It’s never easy.

You’re never too old to start learning, and you’re never too young to aim high and achieve great things.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Never give up on your dreams, no matter how painful and difficult your journey is.

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

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.

Saint Francis de Sales
A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does. No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

Daisy Bates
People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun.

I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

I’m a workaholic. I never stop. I’m always thinking about the next play, what’s the next move, what could we do to be better than we are now. And I’m not gonna be satisfied until I’ve achieved my maximum potential.

24kGoldn
Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitarhide in the back and just play.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

Karl Popper
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.

Marc Anthony
Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

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.

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 never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

As a teenager I was so insecure. I was the type of guy that never fitted in because he never dared to choose. I was convinced I had absolutely no talent at all. For nothing. And that thought took away all my ambition too.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

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.

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

Paul J Meyer
Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

L Ron Hubbard
You can never be too rich or too thin.

Wallis Simpson
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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.

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.

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Thorstein Veblen
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.

Jairam Ramesh
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.

I’ve never been a bad boy.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

P G Wodehouse
I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

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.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.

Never assume you can’t do something. Push yourself to redefine the boundaries.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Cordell Hull
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

If you go around being afraid, you’re never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you’ve got to have fun.

Silences make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying but the never needing to say is what counts.

Margaret Lee Runbeck
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Go, and never darken my towels again.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

Hope will never be silent.

Harvey Milk
Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure’s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Samuel Daniel
Good grooming and hygiene are essential. It’s never too early to start being concerned about your appearancefirst impressions are everything.

Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

St Jerome
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.

To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.

The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

Never sell the bear‘s skin before one has killed the beast.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

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.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Resist your fear; fear will never lead to you a positive end. Go for your faith and what you believe.

I’ve said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

The Bible says to ‘fear not,’ but this doesn’t mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Henry Van Dyke
God never ends anything on a negative; God always ends on a positive.

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford
Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up.

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 was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.

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.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Something is better than nothing. Doin’ anything for a man, there’s investments involved, there’s time and production. It’s better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

Brownie McGhee
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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.

Kyle Massey
Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Never take counsel of your fears.

Stonewall Jackson
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

Daniel Boone
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

A winner never stops trying.

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.

If your only intent is to be seen, you’ll never be seen. If your intent is to be happy, comfortable, genuine, and true in craft, you’re destined to be noticed.

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Pessimism never won any battle.

You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth
You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

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

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Corrie Ten Boom
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there’s a story of a personal struggle.

Fast food is popular because it’s convenient, it’s cheap, and it tastes good. But the real cost of eating fast food never appears on the menu.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Juvenal
It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.’

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanitycovers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Charles M Schulz
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

Earl Wilson
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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.

Lady Bird Johnson
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.

You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.

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.

Being happy never goes out of style.

Lilly Pulitzer
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

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.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Epicurus
When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‘I never want to be alone.’ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Algernon Charles Swinburne
Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on.

Never give an order that can’t be obeyed.

Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.

Ken Venturi
I’m not saying that everyone should swim with sharks, but sometimes you have to jump over your own shadow in order to learn something that you will never forget for the rest of your life. Then you know you can conquer your fears.

My father always said, ‘Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf‘ – so I make sure I read.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Rational thoughts never drive people’s creativity the way emotions do.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

If we take the generally accepted definition of bravery as a quality which knows no fear, I have never seen a brave man. All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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.

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.

Zack Steffen
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes’, otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.

Ian Fleming
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It’s courage that counts.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something.

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Arnold H Glasow
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.’

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain’t never gonna do it any different. I don’t care who likes it and who don’t.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

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.

Near the gates and within two cities there will be scourges the like of which was never seen: famine within plague, people put out by steel, crying to the great immortal God for relief.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

Aaron Burr
Never give up. Never give in. Never become hostile… Hate is too big a burden to bear.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

A bee is never as busy as it seems; it’s just that it can’t buzz any slower.

You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

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.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

Being hot never hurts!

Never give in and never give up.

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming.

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.

I never do anything half-heartedly. I will continue to work hard and play hard and do everything I can to be successful, whatever I do.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren’t true, but you never hear about the positive.

Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.

Pericles
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

Ausonius
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.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

Tony Jaa
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.

Hafez
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

James Anthony Froude
The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Rene Descartes
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Red Cloud
You never know what motivates you.

Love is never wrong.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Never forget that the most powerful force on earth is love.

Nelson Rockefeller
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.

I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

Milton Berle
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

Walter Winchell
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Karen Blixen
The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Bruce Lee
You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never received my homage; and whilst life is in this persecuted body, he shall never receive it.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.

St Jerome
I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It’s the bully who’s insecure.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Lost time is never found again.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas, it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.

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.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Pain is never permanent.

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

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.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude… Don’t complain; just work harder… Never give up.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Keep a cool head and maintain a low profile. Never take the lead – but aim to do something big.

Deng Xiaoping
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you’ll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there’s a lot of truth to that.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

Archibald Alexander
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.

You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.

A good song never gets old.

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.’

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

It’s really a testament to my parents, because I was active, curious and creative as a child, and my parents nurtured that. But I wouldn’t say that I was a professional child actor at all. I was never the breadwinner of my family.

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

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 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.

God will never give you anything you can’t handle, so don’t stress.

I have never understood the reason and logic of smoking.

It’s better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.

It’s good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

Charles Lyell
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

Eating good food is, to me, one of life’s greatest joys, and I will never punish myself for it.

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.