Top 100 Quotes About Say No
#1. Qui tacet consentire. If you don't say no, you just said yes. He
M.R. Carey
#2. The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.
Terence McKenna
#3. Once you learn how to say no, that's about the only place that you'll have control of your work and what you do.
Sandra Bullock
#4. Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you lied to me. Goodbye.' When they see wickedness, they walk away.
Lorrie Moore
#6. Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.
Sue Monk Kidd
#7. It's more than ok to say no to the people and places that harm your peace.
Nikki Rowe
#8. So serious even if you say no today, I'm not going to stop asking tomorrow. And the day after. And the day after that one, until I have this ring on your finger." Her
Kat Austen
#9. I say 'no' to drugs. Whenever someone asks me for some of my drugs
I say, 'no.
Rodney Dangerfield
#10. If they [Playboy] could promise me it wasn't camera-between-my-knees kind of shots, I would do it. I would do topless. I think it's empowering. Though if my mother had a real big problem with it, I'd have to say no right now.
Melissa Joan Hart
#11. Have the STRENGTH to say "no" to the status quo.
Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.
Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent.
Richie Norton
#12. Now, Neve, are you about to say no to me?' 'Well, it's just that - ' 'Because the word "no" is not in my vocabulary, along with the words "can't" and "Victoria Beckham".
Sarra Manning
#13. You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.
Sonia Sotomayor
#14. Pop used to say no one knows more tricks than a country midwife." - Verna Krone, The Blue Orchard
Jackson Taylor
#15. I've gotten myself into some difficult situations because I couldn't say no.
Melissa McBride
#16. People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.
Anthony Hopkins
#17. Almost everything I say, no matter how innocent my intentions are, seems to get sort of manipulated and sensationalized and turned into some ridiculous news story.
Megan Fox
#18. I can't say 'no' to an interesting role. I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'
Helen Mirren
#19. My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, "No, Mummy, you can't wear that." She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
Kate Moss
#20. I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.
Anika Noni Rose
#21. Would somebody please explain to me those signs that say, "No animals allowed except for Seeing Eye Dogs?" Who is that sign for? Is it for the dog, or the blind person?
Jerry Seinfeld
#22. Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes.
Lillian B. Rubin
#23. Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks in secret? Somebody who anticipates the next drink before he's finished with the one in front of him?
Irvine Welsh
#24. Life's too short to say no when love shows up at your door.
Roxanne Snopek
#26. Was I interrupting? I thought it was over." Rhys gave me a smile dripping with venom. He knew-through that bond, through whatever magic was between us, he'd known I was about to say no. "At least Feyre seemed to think so.
Sarah J. Maas
#27. Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#28. desk simply to say: "Would you be willing to be parachuted into Greece next week?"' Woodhouse thought about it for a moment. 'There seemed no reason to say No, so I said Yes.'5 He reasoned that it would be a good opportunity to practise his Greek.
Giles Milton
#29. If somebody offers you Hapi pills, just say no!
Rick Riordan
#30. When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it.
Jane Austen
#31. There are many kinds of sincerity and insincerity. When you say 'thank you' for the salt, do you mean what you say ? No. When you say 'the world is round,' do you mean what you say ? No. It is true, but you don't mean it
G.K. Chesterton
#32. The problem, he says, is not that you are asked to do one big, bad deed; it is that there are so many tiny steps along the way that there is never a moment when it's simple to say no.
Anonymous
#33. After 'Somewhere' came out, people started to recognize me more. Whenever I was walking down the street, they'd be like, 'Oh, wow - are you Elle Fanning?' Before 'Somewhere,' they asked me if I was Dakota Fanning, because we looked alike, and I'd say, 'No, I'm her younger sister.'
Elle Fanning
#34. Like they say, no point in rubbin' a turd.
Julia Wertz
#35. You should learn when to go
YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SAY NO
Courtney Love
#36. It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: No room for your ladyship; pass on.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#37. Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart; brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes.
Preity Zinta
#38. A married man is just a single man who couldn't say no.
Colin Tegerdine
#39. I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.
Jeff Ament
#40. Banks also have to say no to customers. We can't always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client's best interest.
Jamie Dimon
#41. I'm not as eager to go just work to work. I have another life outside of it, and if I'm pretty sure the movie's not going to have a life, or if it's not a director I believe in, then I probably will say no.
Scott Speedman
#42. The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad ...
John Mayer
#43. I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.
Chadwick Boseman
#44. He is a gay man, my dear, to say no more; and such are the companions we wish when we join a party avowedly formed for pleasure.
Hannah Webster Foster
#45. I'm sometimes asked 'Can you lose the accent?'and I say 'No, but I can put on another one'.
Ewan McGregor
#46. That's how pixies know we're in love," he said as he folded his dragonfly-like wings and wiggled out of his red jacket, wincing as something pulled. "If the girl has glow, she won't say no.
Kim Harrison
#48. You need to listen to what Mom has to say." "No, I don't." "She deserves that much, Charley.
Darynda Jones
#49. There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say: No, you did not feel like that!
Pirjo Honkasalo
#50. Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish ... It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.
Hermann Hesse
#51. I'm a fighter as a mother. I'm fighting to be a mother, but I cannot say no to my passion because it's me, as well.
Juliette Binoche
#52. There are times when one simply cannot say no.
Anne Rice
#53. Wisdom comes from not only in the understanding that often times we say no to things too easily and quickly, but also in knowing that that 'no' for the sake of your physical and mental wellbeing can also be a reasonable and grounded decision for which you shouldn't feel the need to feel guilty.
Forrest Curran
#54. As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
Zainab Salbi
#55. In fairy tales," her mother used to say, "no one ever says I love you. They give food and they kiss. That's what love is made of.
Jacqueline Sweet
#56. There are those today that say we must do as others do, that we must conform to the world [to win it], that we must swim with the tide, that we must move with the crowd. But the believer should say, No.
Billy Graham
#57. We see the beauty within and cannot say no.
Dave Eggers
#58. Getting to know ourselves and learning to control ourselves are the two great tasks of life. Don't make up strange and exotic 'penances.' Simply say no to yourself once a day, and you will be on the road to sanctity for the rest of your life.
Joan D. Chittister
#59. When people say no to me, I say, "Don't say no to me. There is a waywe can work this out."
Sheila Johnson
#61. I'm always on Netflix. They got 'Breaking Bad!' How can you say no to that?
Tony Oller
#62. In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no - a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before.
Gary W. Keller
#63. A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
Robert Kiyosaki
#64. Never say no to anything, whatever the universe brings me. I've always lived by that.
Ruby Rose
#65. A lot of times, actors give so much power to the producers and the producing companies because, quite frankly, they have it. But we don't take the limited power that we have, which the power you initially have is to say 'no.' But 'no' in a positive way.
Michael Cudlitz
#66. True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.
Samuel Goldwyn
#67. I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.
Eric Betzig
#68. Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes,' otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
Ian Fleming
#69. Instead of focusing on arguing with people who say no, it might be easier to get near the people who like to say yes.
Seth Godin
#70. You want him to walk?" Caleb demands. "Are you insane?"
"Did I shoot him in the leg?" I say. "No. He walks. Where do we go, Peter?
Veronica Roth
#71. What is the most difficult word for young people to pronounce? It's the word no. When we say no [to what is against God], He will help us to stand by it. He will give us courage.
Billy Graham
#72. If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.
Kesha
#73. Most people think I'm Danny Glover's son when they meet me. So when they ask, I say 'No, I'm Crispin Glover's son.' Then we stare at each other for a long time.
Donald Glover
#74. I do look better on TV. In real life, I look scruffy and pale, and I get the worst kind of recognition ... I get the 'Haven't we met somewhere before?' I suggest it might be because I'm on the telly, and they say, 'No, it's definitely not that. Wasn't it at so-and-so's party?'
Tom Ward
#76. Freedom means the capability to say yes when yes is needed, to say no when no is needed, and sometimes to keep quiet when nothing is needed - to be silent, not to say anything. When all these dimensions are available, there is freedom.
Rajneesh
#77. I understand the sensitivities of grown children with little ones of their own!! They'll turn away a mother full of advice, but they'll never say no to one holding a mop.
Cathy Guisewite
#78. Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#79. She could say 'no' quicker than any woman I ever knew, and none of them ever meant 'yes'.
Jack Black
#80. Nonviolent Peaceforce ... is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we may say YES when we say NO to war.
Mel Duncan
#81. Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.
Brene Brown
#82. I will ever be grateful for the wise counsel of a strong and inspired father when he taught, "If you always say no to the first temptation, you will not have to worry if you will be able to say no to the second one."
Harold G. Hillam
#83. Try to be thoughtful,
don't make the poor man say it;
see how human he is,
he has children of his own,
it is your job to ask:
Is she dead?
And he will nod and say yes
And now he can never not nod.
And now he can never say no.
And now he can never not say
yes.
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
#84. You do everything everyone tells you to do because you're afraid that if you say no, they won't like you.
Eliza Gordon
#85. She paused a moment.
"Pepino, shall I tell all our dear friends our little secret?" she said. "If you say 'no,' I shan't. But, please, Pepino--"
Pepino, however, had been instructed to say 'yes,' and accordingly did so.
E.F. Benson
#86. Freedom is the ability to say no. It is nothing more than that.
Rick Wiedeman
#87. I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
Dan Buettner
#88. We say a lot of things without actually saying them. We say them with the things and people we choose to keep in our lives and say yes to, the things we choose to say no to.
Natalie Wise
#90. Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.
Josh Hartnett
#91. I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that it is. Well, you know, some people believe they're Napoleon. That's fine. Beliefs are neat. Cherish them, but don't share them like they're the truth.
Bill Hicks
#92. A row of daffodils and red tulips nestled against the walkway beneath my feet. Stray weeds peeked up through the cracks in the concrete, a reminder that that nature had the final say. No matter how much mankind bulldozed or built, all was vulnerable to Mother Nature's whims.
Pamela Crane
#93. Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.
Jim Rohn
#94. Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.
Sidney Poitier
#95. If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#96. When it's not meant to make you up, it's meant to fake you up. Just say no and act right. Be bold to say "no".
Israelmore Ayivor
#97. Liver failure is the easiest way to say 'no' to alcohol.
Bauvard
#98. It takes effort to say no when our heart and brains and guts and, most important, pride are yearning to say yes. Practice.
Cole Harmonson
#99. Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real. Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.
Bryant McGill
#100. If you say no to cruel factory farm practices, only then will the government say yes to change.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
