If you want to steal, steal a little in a nice way. But if you steal too much to become rich overnight, you'll be caught. — Mobutu Sese Seko
It is illegal to steal my feelings and leave — Kevin Gates
To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral. — Abbie Hoffman
Bad artists copy. Good artists steal. — Pablo Picasso
He who buys what he does not need steals from himself. — Swedish Proverbs
Do not judge all you see, do not believe all you hear, do not do all you can, do not say all you know, do not eat all you have, let no one know what you have in your heart or in your wallet. — Swedish Proverbs
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire. — L. Frank Baum
Good artists copy, great artists steal. — Pablo Picasso
If you steal from one person is Theft, and if you steal from Lots of people is Research — Guthrie Govan
Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop. — Jeffrey Zeldman
Short Do Not Steal Quotes
A good composer does not imitate; he steals. — Igor Stravinsky
Don't eat your bread on someone else's table. — Indian Proverbs
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal. — Igor Stravinsky
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child. — J. H. Oldham
Judges,lawyers an politicians have a license to steal.We don't need one. — Carlo Gambino
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. — Jim Jarmusch
Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses. — John Wooden
Throw away profit and greed, and there won't be any thieves. — Lao Tzu
If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research. — Wilson Mizner
Never get high on your own supply. — The Notorious B.I.G.
Do Not Steal Image Quotes
Don't let the past steal your present. Your past has not defined, deterred or defeated you. It has only strengthened who you are today.
Do Not Copy Quotes
I love the construction process and it is always important because we try to experiment and do something new, so the builders are not copying any technique from other projects. Everything is innovative and so I need to be there and be attentive to make sure everything is running smoothly. — Santiago Calatrava
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that. — Jackie Collins
I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart. — John Fowles
He who buys what he does not need stels from himself.
Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client. — David Ogilvy
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can. — Norman Vincent Peale
Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?! — John Green
Doubt and fear steal more dreams than failure does.
I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty. — Brittany Snow
When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied. — Dan Fouts
The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic. — Michael Schenker
This is where the guys who copy me are planted: I do not use auto-tune, I sing. That's my advice! — Young Thug
Never Steal Quotes
I forgive those who murder and steal because they did it out of necessity, but a traitor never. — Emiliano Zapata
People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart. — George Michael
Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings — Ellen Hopkins
I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again. — Barry White
Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone. — Taylor Caldwell
I asked god for a bike, but god doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
They will not criminalise us, rob us of our true identity, steal our individualism, depoliticise us, churn us out as systemised, institutionalised, decent law-abiding robots. Never will they label our liberation struggle as criminal. — Bobby Sands
It is against the law to permit weak people to steal your strength. Never permit it. — Vernon Howard
A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed. — Dieter Appelt
Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the world... Photography is a system of saving memories. It's a time machine, in a way, to preserve the memory, to preserve time. — Hiroshi Sugimoto
When You Steal Quotes
Don’t allow negative people to steal your joy. When you lose your joy, you lose your strength. — Joel Osteen
Be careful with whom you associate, especially when you feel emotionally vulnerable, because negative people can steal the dream right out of your heart. — Joel Osteen
Anticipatory plagiarism occurs when someone steals your original idea and publishes it a hundred years before you were born. — Robert K. Merton
The world is full of kings and queens, who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness. — Khaled Hosseini
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains. — Rumi
I was the biggest liar for no reason, and then as I got older, I thought, "Why am I lying to everybody?" I would hear other people lie and be like, "You sound so stupid." So then I would just change my lies. The only person I lie to is my little sister, when I steal her clothes. — Kendall Jenner
If you can dream it, someone can steal it.
When becoming a character, you have to steal. Steal whatever you see. You can even steal from other actors' characterizations; but if you do, only steal from the best. — Michael Caine
When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other. If you're listening to a record and it's really hot, then you'll be looking for something that feels like that, or that has a version of it. — 50 Cent
It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more. — Irvine Welsh
As most people when I entered the work world, suddenly people are playing games, being manipulative, being a little bit nasty, you get tricked or you're kind of naive and you do something and people come steal your idea. — Robert Greene
Those Who Steal Quotes
Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry. — Pope Francis
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist? — H. L. Mencken
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. — Adlai E. Stevenson
I would gladly chastise those who represent things as different from what they are. Those who steal property or make counterfeit money are punished, and those ought to be still more severely dealt with who steal away or falsify the good name of a prince. — Elizabeth I
The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more. — Louis L'Amour
Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so they could steal his jewel-filled station wagon, which they abandoned 2 blocks later because none of them could drive a stick shift. Where would I be without such people? — Donald E. Westlake
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil. — Edward Dahlberg
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. — Adlai Stevenson
Those in public office who do not love the people are thieves stealing salaries. Those who teach but do not themselves practice what they teach are mere talkers. Those who try to do successful work without considering development of character will find it insubstantial. — Zicheng Hong
Every ISP is being attacked, maliciously both from in the United States and outside of the United States, by those who want to invade people's privacy. But more importantly they want to take control of computers, they want to hack them, they want to steal information. — Darrell Issa
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be. — Albert Camus
Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love and loyalty to Jesus will make you watchful and swift to rise up and cast out the subtle enemy. Do this and you shall live, and live victoriously. — Samuel Logan Brengle
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do. — George Balanchine
This war did not spring up on our land, this war was brought upon us by the children of the Great Father who came to take our land without a price, and who, in our land, do a great many evil things... This war has come from robbery - from the stealing of our land. — Spotted Tail
The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not have access, the businesses that do not come into existence, and the bright future that is stolen from us. The State has looted us just as surely as a robber who enters our home at night and steals all that we love. — Frederic Bastiat
You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools. — Huey Long
...leaders who do not hold their people accountable to a set standard are, in effect, thieves and liars. Thieves because they are stealing from the stockholder who pays them to hold people accountable, and liars because they pretend that everything is OK with their people when in fact everything is not OK. — James Hunter
Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums. — Beverley Nichols
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. — Kurt Vonnegut
The Christian is not free to do what the Bible forbids. Christian freedom does not entail the right to fornicate or to steal or to lie or to persist in an unforgiving attitude or to do anything else the Scriptures explicitly prohibit. And a person who lovingly points this out to you is not a legalist for having done so! — Sam Storms
Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us. — Voltaire
That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die. — Nina Simone
We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle. — Evo Morales
Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. — Kurt Vonnegut
The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them. — Henry Mayhew
I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something. — Margaret Atwood
But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful. — Jupiter Hammon
Black people don't hijack planes, alright? Now I'll be the first to admit, we steal a lot of stuff, but we do not hijack planes. In fact, in the history of aviation, a black person has never even attempted to hijack a plane. Do you want to know why? Because you can't sell an airplane. — Alonzo Bodden
If you do not know how to lie, cheat, and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn. — Josh Billings
But let me ask you this though, first and foremost: who's your favorite Spice Girl? Mine is Sporty Spice and I'll tell you why. You know what? She might not be as aesthetically pleasant as the rest but she'll do a backflip and steal your heart. — Janeane Garofalo
I'm not a great inventor from scratch. What I do is to use, steal, acquire, reproduce or re-cycle music from other musicians. — Michael Nyman
Do not steal something that already belongs to you or pine for people who are sitting right next to you. — Rob Brezsny
I have spent most of my time worrying about things that have never happened. Worrying is not an action! In fact, it is action that alleviates concern and dissipates worries. Take more actions when you feel that worry is creeping in to steal your time. It need not be a huge action, any action in the direction you want to go will do. — Mark Twain
Never violate a woman, nor harm a child. Do not lie, cheat or steal. These things are for lesser men. Protect the weak against the evil strong. And never allow thoughts of gain to lead you into the persuit of evil. — David Gemmell
I didn't want to try and borrow kudos from Indonesian culture. I was trying to get a fresh perspective on these instruments. I'm not doing a Paul Simon Gracelands and stealing all this African music and not give anyone any credit. — Squarepusher
Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal
toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost
ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust
would keep us calm and prove us whole at last. — Anne Sexton
I never cheat or steal. Also, I never wear a top-hat with a sack coat or munch bananas in public on the streets, because a gentleman does not do those things either. I would as soon do the one as the other sort of thing--it is all a matter of harmony and good taste. — H. P. Lovecraft
But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust does corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. Matthew 6:20 — Bible
In real life, if I were firing you, I'd tell you what a great job you did, how fantastic you are, and how you can do better someplace else. If somebody steals, that's different, but generally speaking, you want to let them down as lightly as possible. It's not a very pleasant thing. I don't like firing people. — Donald Trump
Computer hackers do not need to know each other's real names, or even live on the same continent, to steal millions in mere hours. — Robert Mueller
And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever. — Milos Forman
The truth is, most celebrities are doing the same things most other people are doing every day... work, have dinner, hang out with your friends when you can, try and keep up with the crazy world we're living in and squeeze in some zzz's. There's not nearly as much stealing and obsessing and middle-of-the-night secret calls to ex-boyfriends and scheming and cheating [as they lead you to believe]. Most of it's just bulls - t, however entertaining. — Jennifer Aniston
In order to function and pay our bills and our taxes and feed our families and stuff, musicians have to make a living. It's not about being a millionaire. It's about being able to survive. When there are people constantly stealing from you, it's quite frustrating. It's a matter of changing the public's option about doing it. — Matt Snell
We're going to do three things: teach-ins across the country so people can learn about each other's issues and causes; parties with a purpose so we can shake our butts and not let this man steal our joy; and we're going to do big concerts and revivals with some of the biggest artists in the world. If [Donald] Trump can have 20,000 people for big hate rallies then we can have 40,000 people in arenas for love rallies. — Van Jones
When the devil looks at a man who sincerely desires not to sin, he is not so unintelligent as to suggest to him (as he would to a hardened sinner) that he go and commit fornication or go and steal. He knows we do not want that and he does not set out to tell us something we do not want to hear; but he finds out that little bit of self-will or self-righteousness and through that, with the appearance of well doing, he will do us harm. — Dorotheus of Gaza
I guess I feel like; if you're doing something and people are accusing you of appropriating something like that so obviously, then I would feel like I've failed as a creative person. It's just like stealing something and doing some sort of slight alteration to it - I'd feel like I'm not doing my job as a musician, or as a creative person - if it's just obvious like that. — Panda Bear
My dad was old school Jewish. Not do your taxes Jewish - steal your car Jewish. — Dov Davidoff
Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words. — Dan Poynter
If you steal, do not steal too much at a time. You may be arrested. Steal cleverly, little by little. — Mobutu Sese Seko
Thou shalt not steal unless thou hast a majority vote in Congress.... I'm healthy; subsidized prescription drugs won't do me much good. I'd be willing to forego my prescription drugs if Congress would force some young American to mow my lawn. — Walter E. Williams
There is one recurring, persistent, perennial, and dogging personal problem which, more than any other, steals the force and peace of people and ruins projects and enterprises and careers. It is the habit of feeling hurt, because of what others do, or do not do and what they say or do not say — Ervin Seale
He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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