Top 100 Quotes About When You Have Nothing
#1. When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire.
Jack Kevorkian
#2. What I learned for sure was that holding the shame was the greatest burden of all. When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
#3. When you have nothing but love, then you're the richest person of the world.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Money brings you security and choice. You can make decisions in a different way if you have a lot of money. But when you have nothing, you have a naivety, and a more fearless attitude because you have nothing to lose.
Simon Cowell
#5. When you have nothing left to lose, it's easy to dive deep into those deep, dark hidden places and write your truth. I'm there.
Lori Lesko
#6. I like to write on airplanes ... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.
Jon Foreman
#7. When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
Mother Teresa
#9. When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
Andre Gide
#10. When you have nothing to lose you become the owner of everything.
Debasish Mridha
#11. How often you impress people when you have nothing and how often you oppress them when you have everything is what defines your real character!
Israelmore Ayivor
#13. It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the next, and pretty soon, we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.
Ricki Lake
#14. It's hard to get guys out when you have nothing to get them out with.
Tim Wakefield
#15. It's you. It's only been you for me. When I came into your life, I might've seemed strong, but I wasn't. I had nothing to lose. When you have nothing to lose, you're capable of doing a lot of damage, but suddenly I had something to lose. You.
Tijan
#17. I wanted us to share all our lives. You wish to keep me in a box, separate from your life. I cannot be someone you come to when you have nothing more important to do.
Robin Hobb
#19. Why worry when you have nothing to fear. Why fear when no one else worries.
Brain
#20. When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing to hide, nothing to prove and nothing to lose.
John Kuypers
#21. To truly try is to give all you have, when you have nothing left.
Enson Inoue
#22. Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.
Bear Grylls
#23. Olivia had always believed in a compassionate society. But was compassion only the first layer of the onion skin? Peel it away, and what do you see? How do you become compassionate when you have nothing to give?
Vinay Kolhatkar
#24. Give when you have nothing to give. That is when it will bring you the most joy.
Debasish Mridha
#25. When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear. When you do the right things in the right way you have nothing to lose because you have nothing to fear.
Zig Ziglar
#26. When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#27. Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.
Tony Robbins
#29. Taking risks in older age is more courageous because you have more to lose. When you have nothing, you have nothing to lose.
Rick Warren
#30. When you have nothing left to lose. When there's nothing left to gain. You find yourself at the edge of the world, wishing nothing would have changed," I read and instantly got a twisted feeling in the pit of my stomach.
"All you can do is jump.
Monica Alexander
#32. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
Jerome K. Jerome
#33. When you have nothing for so long, you forget the terror of having something to lose.
Alexandra Bracken
#34. When you have nothing to say,
set something on fire.
Richard Siken
#35. LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.
Richard Harris
#37. Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D.H. Lawrence
#38. Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.
Francine Rivers
#39. Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.
George Bernard Shaw
#40. When you have nothing to pray for, that's when Luck hears you. If
Ursula K. Le Guin
#42. This is the meaning of poverty: when you have nothing better to do than to hate somebody who, just exactly like yourself, has nothing better to do than to pick on you instead of trying to figure out how come there's nothing better to do.
June Jordan
#43. When you have nothing inside you, you feel everything more, and feel you can control it all.
Megan Abbott
#44. You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#45. Grace is love that seeks you out when you have nothing to give in return.
Preston Sprinkle
#46. When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That's when it's show time!
Eric Thomas
#47. Two Things that Define SUCCESS In LIFE: - The Way You Manage when You Have Nothing & Way You Behave when You Have Everything
Akon
#48. I know where nowhere is, I know where nowhere leads, it's the place you go when you have nothing left to lose but you.
Jenim Dibie
#49. What better time to try something new than when you have nothing to lose.
Jules Barnard
#50. When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord.
Charles Spurgeon
#51. It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is when you step in to help when you have nothing to lose.
Gail Tsukiyama
#52. When you have nothing other than your breath, then you are fully alive.
Art Hochberg
#53. You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
Andre Malraux
#54. Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.
Janis Joplin
#55. A hungry man can be a fast learner. When you come to a table with nothing but need, you are grateful for things you might have pushed aside before. And when you kneel, hungry & broken at His table, you receive a grace from Him you might, at some other time, have completely missed.
Mike Yankoski
#56. Obviously there are times with acting when exactly what is required is just going through the motions, and when doing nothing is the best thing. But at other times, you have to make that leap beyond the immediate environment of people putting up lights on the set.
Christian Bale
#57. If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Jack Kevorkian
#59. You have to make choices even when there is nothing to choose from.
Peter Zilahy
#60. When you have become willing to hide nothing, you will not only be willing to enter into communion but will also understand peace and joy.
Helen Schucman
#61. I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.
Charles Bukowski
#62. When you lose everything, you have nothing left to live for," said Hunter.
"If you have nothing left to live for, why are you still fighting?
Isabella Modra
#63. There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.
Alexandra Monir
#64. I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
Utah Phillips
#65. if somebody steals from you, you should forgive them because they might have been in need. If someone speaks behind your back, say nothing because you must be the bigger person. When you fall in love, give all your heart to your beloved and don't ever doubt.
Zahed Haftlang
#66. Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring ... I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep. Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful ... that they are alive, if for nothing else.
L.M. Montgomery
#67. I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
Carla Hall
#68. Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
Florence Nightingale
#69. Vainly you talk about voting it down. When you have cast your millions of ballots, you have not reached the evil. It has fastened its root deep into the heart of the nation, and nothing but God's truth and love can cleanse the land. We must change the moral sentiment.
Frederick Douglass
#70. Find something to believe in, Carter, other than your work. Because when you leave this life, you leave work behind. If that's all you have, then you have nothing. And eternity is a long time for nothing.
David Baldacci
#71. The real Oxford is a close corporation of jolly, untidy, lazy, good-for-nothing humorous old men, who have been electing their own successors ever since the world began and who intend to go on with it. They'll squeeze under the Revolution or leap over it when the time comes, don't you worry.
C.S. Lewis
#72. You have been speaking about William Carey. When I am gone, say nothing about William Carey-speak only about Willam Carey's Saviour.
William Carey
#73. Writing a novel is not at all like riding a bike. Writing a novel is like having to redesign a bike, based on laws of physics that you don't understand, in a new universe. So having written one novel does nothing for you when you have to write the second one.
Daniel Alarcon
#74. What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters
Susane Colasanti
#75. When you're poor, you have nothing to lose and be afraid of. Holding onto the dream and having nothing to lose is what helped me succeed.
Cesar Millan
#76. I'm all you have in this world Mariam, and when I'm gone you'll have nothing. You ARE nothing!
Khaled Hosseini
#77. When there's a dead body in the room, you never, ever answer cops' questions without your lawyer present. Which is to say, your lawyer answers the questions by saying, We have nothing to say at this time.
Paul Levine
#78. I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.
Amanda Lear
#79. Dear God,
I am so afraid to open my clenched fists!
Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to?
Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands?
Please help me to gradually open my hands
and to discover that I am not what I own,
but what you want to give me.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#80. A space was quickly cleared in the crowd, and a rope placed about his neck, when from somewhere came the suggestion, "Burn him!" It ran like an electric current. Have you ever witnessed the transformation of human beings into savage beasts? Nothing can be more terrible.
James Weldon Johnson
#81. When you are young, nothing is more important than football, but as you get older, you get married, have kids and lose people. Then you realise your family is more important. This comes with age.
Jermain Defoe
#82. The fear of death didn't have much hold when you had nothing worth living for.
Lisa Kessler
#83. Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness ... But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
Henry Ward Beecher
#84. There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.
Mike Wallace
#85. When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.
Jacques Maritain
#86. If I can give you any advice, it's this: every hour that you spend sat on the couch doing nothing, put it to good use, because when you have kids, an hour is like a lifetime.
Noel Gallagher
#87. When you're in front of the camera, you have to try to create different emotions because even the person making pictures of you needs inspiration. To be 'you' means nothing - you can be so many yous.
Monica Bellucci
#88. When you own nothing, it's hard to believe you have anything to lose.
Larissa Lai
#89. I remember when I posed as a customs officer so that I could meet Oscar Wilde. I said to him "Have you anything to declare?" He said "I have nothing to declare but my genius." I said "I'll put that down as nothing then shall I?" For I am the wittiest man on Earth.
Simon Munnery
#90. Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.
Colm Toibin
#91. You have to believe in them now. Christ believed in you when there was nothing to believe in.
Johnny Hunt
#92. When you love too hard, you can lose the will to live without them. Everywhere you look is a great big sucking absence of what you once had and will never have again. And life gets weirdly flat and too sharp and painful at the same time, and nothing feels right and everything cuts.
Karen Marie Moning
#93. It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.
Andrea Jung
#94. When people can't feed their children, nothing else positive happens. You don't have to look farther than the United States to see that.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
#95. When something means nothing to you, you can do everything you want; but someday, somehow you may have to pay for it.
Munia Khan
#96. Think about it: If you don't have any actual, tangible skills, then how can you do anything? You may be laughing and nodding, but do you realize how few people, when asked the basic question, 'What can you do?' stumble on the answer and have nothing to say? Most people.
Tucker Max
#97. There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.
H.G.Wells
#98. Don't waste your life questioning the decisions you have already made when there is nothing you can do to change them.
K.R. Fajardo
#99. You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
Rafael Nadal
#100. Your fiery spirit excites me, Keirah, like nothing I have ever felt before. Yet I have the overwhelming desire to put you over my knee when you don't do as you are told.
Madison Thorne Grey
