Top 100 To Say No Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I think we're all sort of imprisoned by - or at least bound to - the choices we make ... You want to say no at the right time and you want to say 'yes' more sparingly.
Bill Murray
#3. If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.
Abraham Lincoln
#4. Sometimes it's hard to say no. Ultimately, if you stick to your guns, you have the career that you want. Don't get me wrong. I love a good payday and I'll do films for fun. But ultimately my main goal is to do good work. If it doesn't pay well, so be it.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#5. I should ask her to marry me now. If I do it while she's coming, she probably won't be able to say no. It would be physically impossible. Like performing a sex exorist. THE POWER OF THE ORGASM COMPELS YOU!
Tara Sivec
#6. I'm just auditioning. I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things.
Madeline Zima
#7. She always said yes to whoever asked her out. It wouldn't have occurred to her to say no.
Liane Moriarty
#8. When you learn to say yes to yourself, you will be able to say no to others, with love.
Alan Cohen
#9. If you ask permission from enough people, eventually you will find someone to say, "NO!
Ron Howson
#10. Once, I was out of the house 93 days in a year. I was missing grandparents' days at schools and kids' birthdays and Valentine's Day, not to mention the fact that when you're on the road, you can't get anything done. I had to learn to say 'No,' cut back on travel.
Jerry Spinelli
#11. It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.
Henry Kravis
#12. The point of cool is to erase your ability to say no. Saying yes buys you cool cachet, but it always ruins your life later.
Greg Gutfeld
#13. Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#14. The more money a woman has, the more educated she is, and the more educated she is, the more she knows about how to prevent pregnancy, and also has more reproductive control - she feels a greater ability to say no to a man when she doesn't have to depend on him for money.
Natalie Portman
#15. But bread is different. I come from Czechoslovakia, where we eat lots of it, so it's hard to say no. I can't even have one piece, because when I start, I don't stop.
Daniela Pestova
#16. A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries to constantly evolve and isn't afraid to say no or challenge someone or be honest or truthful.
Miranda Kerr
#17. The first important act of self-denial for 21st-century followers of Jesus may be to say no to being too busy to be a disciple.
Thomas Oord
#18. Focus is the ability to say no to the GOOD so you can fulfill the yes you said to the GREAT.
Orrin Woodward
#19. You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.
Jane Seymour
#20. I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.
Nujood Ali
#22. All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.
Susan Sontag
#23. When you learn to say 'NO', you activate the faculty of 'CHOICE' in your mind ! Some of the times you are the chosen one..at other times you CHOOSE for yourself..and saying NO is a sign that one has graduated into becoming a wise CHOICEMAKER ......
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#24. Your talent and abilities are limited resources. Your time is finite. If you don't make your life about what you say yes to, then it will almost certainly become what you intended to say no to.
Gary Keller
#25. I'm actually very snobbish about directors. I have to say 'no' all the time. 'No' is the most powerful word in our business. You've got to protect yourself.
Brad Pitt
#26. Have the self-confidence to say no when it is necessary and the strength to stand alone. Give yourself the approval to love and respect everything that you are and will become.
Jackie Olson
#27. I've specifically decided to say no to projects that weren't advancing Latinos, that weren't showing us in a positive light, roles that were gratuitous and spreading untruths.
Gina Rodriguez
#28. Did I get jiggy with Will? I would have to say no! Did I have fun with Will? I would have to say yeah! But you know, I did not jig with the man, if you know what I'm saying!
Bruce Greenwood
#29. When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do.
John Larroquette
#30. I'm not even out the door yet and you've already replaced me? Vicious. And for the record, I don't have an inability to say no to guys. I have an inability to grasp the moral ramifications of premarital sex. Lots and lots of premarital sex.
Colleen Hoover
#31. But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.
Sidney Poitier
#32. Having thought it through at your leisure, you'll be able to say no with greater confidence.
Auliq Ice
#33. Parents must have the courage to say no, to defend truth, and to bear powerful testimony.
Quentin L. Cook
#34. After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.
Alan Cohen
#35. There are people who prefer to say 'yes' and there are people who prefer to say 'no'. Those who say 'yes' are rewarded by the adventures they have. Those who say 'no' are rewarded by the safety they attain.
Keith Johnstone
#36. I am never going to stop playing the villain. I would be foolish to do so because the audiences apparently enjoy watching me, and who am I to say no?
Christopher Lee
#37. It's ironic that those who lack self-confidence are often the ones who find it hardest to say no.
Fennel Hudson
#38. Tell the people of all lands Let's get together the future is in our hands. United nations have to agree To say no to war, and yes to peace.
Country Joe McDonald
#39. Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.
John C. Maxwell
#40. To really achieve any level of greatness, you have to be willing to say yes no matter who says no, and to say no no matter who says yes.
Sharon Stone
#41. You can't be minimalist as a director until you have acquired the experience and confidence to say no.
Richard Eyre
#42. I love food. I'm a complete foodie. I love to cook. I find it very hard to say no to food. I get grumpy if I don't get food.
Stephen Hunter
#43. Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.
Peter Drucker
#44. I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
Ben Affleck
#45. Nobody taught me how to say no when a beautiful naked woman begs me to take my clothes off.
Charles Stross
#46. Even though you said yes to the wrong man, I hope that won't cause you to say no to the right one.
Lisa Kleypas
#47. I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.
Randy Alcorn
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. It's more than ok to say no to the people and places that harm your peace.
Nikki Rowe
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Pop used to say no one knows more tricks than a country midwife." - Verna Krone, The Blue Orchard
Jackson Taylor
#57. I think personal power is having the availability to say, 'No' to something, whatever that may be.
Anika Noni Rose
#58. Sexual freedom is about choice. It's the freedom to say no as well as yes.
Lillian B. Rubin
#59. Life's too short to say no when love shows up at your door.
Roxanne Snopek
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. You should learn when to go
YOU SHOULD LEARN HOW TO SAY NO
Courtney Love
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. I'm not going to say no to playing a show in Missoula.
Jeff Ament
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. You need to listen to what Mom has to say." "No, I don't." "She deserves that much, Charley.
Darynda Jones
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. So, before we go too much further, now is a good chance to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, we are all a little guilty of sometimes living someone else's aspirations for us instead of our own. And this is a great time to say 'No more!' to living out of fear and other people's expectations.
Bear Grylls
#77. I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
Madeline Zima
#78. You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage - pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes" burning inside. The enemy of the "best" is often the "good.
Stephen R. Covey
#79. Those who ask without fear learn to say two things, with or without words, to those they are facing: I deserve to ask and You are welcome to say no. Because the ask that is conditional cannot be a gift.
Amanda Palmer
#81. Women fear endangering men's approval so much, we don't even wait for them to say no. Or else we protect them, even if it means saying no to ourselves.
Gloria Steinem
#82. The ability to say no is a tremendous advantage for an investor.
Warren Buffett
#83. Elijah didn't know how to say no to the man. Wait. He knew how to say no, but Crane didn't know how to listen.
Lisa Henry
#84. I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.
Eric Betzig
#85. 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
#86. Liver failure is the easiest way to say 'no' to alcohol.
Bauvard
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no.
Sidney Poitier
#90. Learn how to say no. Don't let your mouth overload your back.
Jim Rohn
#91. 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
#93. 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
#94. Freedom is the ability to say no. It is nothing more than that.
Rick Wiedeman
#95. 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
#96. Goodbye" is the best ever gift that you can receive from worse friends. Never hesitate to wave it back. Be bold to say "no" to what always keeps you static!
Israelmore Ayivor
#97. I've had to learn how to say no to things, and have people around me that don't push me too hard, because I'll go until I just crash. I don't have a stop button.
Tove Lo
#98. My parents taught me to react quickly when temptation comes and to say 'No!' instantly and emphatically. I recommend that same counsel to you. Avoid temptations.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#99. God does expect us to say no to a whole lot of good things so that we can be freed up to say yes to the most important things he has for us.
Kevin DeYoung
#100. One of the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life was not understanding how to draw healthy boundaries. I finally learned it's perfectly OK to say no.
Maria Canals Barrera
