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You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck.
Donald Rumsfeld

Time, Good, Yourself

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Brian Tracy

Help, Others, Away

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
Wilson Mizner

Best, Friends, Away

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
Henry Rollins

Good, Same, Easy

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.
Bernard Meltzer

Nature, Best, Joy

And if you see me, smile and maybe give me a hug. That's important to me too.
Jim Valvano

Smile, Important, Maybe

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Live, Law, Else

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
Michelangelo

Love, Work, Age

The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon

Men, Best, Advice

Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Nothing, Advice

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friends, Affection, Expressing

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'
Katherine Heigl

Life, Good, Stupid

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Denis Waitley

Children, Decision, Listen

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing, Him, Made

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.
Tom Hanks

Best, Forward, Yourself

I burned out on AIDS and did no AIDS work for a couple of years. I was so angry that people were still getting this disease that nobody can give you - you have to go out and get it!
Harvey Fierstein

Work, Angry, Getting

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
John Steinbeck

Play, Write, Critic

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
Isaac Asimov

Great, May, Thought

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

Love, Trying, Wrong

If a man loves you... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something.
Steve Harvey

Wife, Woman, After

The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Henry Miller

I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord Byron

Two, Though, Process

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
Chuck Palahniuk

God, Maybe, Cancer

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
Anne Lamott

Work, Hope, Dark

Marriage is give and take. You'd better give it to her or she'll take it anyway.
Joey Adams

Marriage, Her, She

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats

Wisdom, Wise, Cannot

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.
Henry A. Kissinger

Cannot, While, Realize

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.
Chuck Norris

Before, Last, Next

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