Ounce Quotes

An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

When it comes to cooking and eating, I always try to preach that life is about moderation. Even if I'm having beef for dinner, it's probably going to be a 3-4 ounce portion with heaps and heaps of vegetables.

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an ounce of them in it.

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting "Heaven" it was truly guerrilla film-making.

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.

I'm thankful for the three ounce Ziploc bag, so that I have somewhere to put my savings.

Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

Through the years, I have so many wonderful memories of playing with the Red Wings: winning four Stanley Cups, scoring big goals, going into battle every night side by side with my teammates, playing with every ounce of effort I could muster.

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

I hope to devote all of my spare time, which ordinarily would go to research, my summers, and every ounce of strength I can muster to further the project.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

The most I've smoked in a day was over an ounce, in Germany.