Never Quotes

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

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

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

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day; we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

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.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

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.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

'What's My Line' 1971 was a magical experience as I was still in my teens, and it was my first appearance. You know how they say you never forget 'your first'!

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.

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.

Remember only the good, the bad will never forget you.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

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

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

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

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

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

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.