These grab quotes will inspire you. Grab, grasp or seize suddenly and roughly or attract the attention of, make an impression on.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging grab quotes, grab sayings, and grab proverbs.
Best Grab Quotes
- “There is a good life waiting for you. Its just waiting for you to grab it” ~ Robert Kiyosaki
- “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle
- “Living well is the best revenge. If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Max Eastman , Grab quotes opportunity
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“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.” ~ Maya Angelou
- “I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.” ~ Mike Tyson
- “What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities” ~ Bear Grylls
- “Take them off!” I told him, grabbing the front of his jeans. “Take everything off!” “I’m trying!” “Try harder!” ~ Karen Chance
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“The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people’s countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man – with his mouth.” ~ Mark Twain
- “There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.” ~ Lauren Oliver
- “Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles – I think that realization means you’re an adult.” ~ Conor Oberst
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“Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail or some other lowest-common denominator. That’s not the same thing as frequenting a site like the white supremacist Stormfront.” ~ Mallory Ortberg
- “I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else’s joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays of being a powerful woman: you want to live in a space of compassion and helpfulness and joy and expression, and the world is standing there, pointing the finger at you and telling you that you’re greedy and domineering and attention-grabbing, and all you can do is shrug and just say, “Hopefully, someone out there understands and isn’t misinterpreting.”” ~ Amanda Palmer
- “I remember coming across some DVDs of the UFC and so I started watching that and became a fan of it. It was a little boring because of all the grabbing and holding and I fast-forwarded through a lot of it, but I still watched because I like martial arts.” ~ Robbie Lawler
- “There are so many candidates, so it’s very hard to get over that number. It’s very unfair, in a we are – but because of the fact that there’s so many candidates and so many candidates are grabbing delegates.” ~ Donald Trump
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“I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.” ~ Donald Sutherland
- “The truth is the music is really an incredible personal part of the movie. When I was drawing the storyboards for Watchmen, I had just gone to my iPod and was grabbing music. It took me about two weeks to really put my playlist together. But once I had it, I kinda just put my headsets on and drew for five months. But that music’s the music that’s in the movie.” ~ Zack Snyder
- “The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds – where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough – a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.” ~ Walt Whitman
- “That’s what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn’t figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. …radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.” ~ Garrison Keillor
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“There is a point when tears don’t work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.” ~ Buddy Wakefield
- “We’re not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American citizen may not know whether or not this person is illegal or not. But, you know, the notion that we’re going to criminalize priests, for example, or doctors who are providing services to individuals, and throw them in jail for doing what their calling asks them to do, which is to provide help and service to people in need, I think that is a mistake. I think that’s out of America’s character.” ~ Barack Obama
- “We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is “normal.” Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.” ~ Alfred W. Crosby
- “Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how to be in our solitude, so that we can relate to each other without grabbing on to each other. We can be interdependent but not dependent. Loneliness is rejected despondency. Solitude is shared interdependence.” ~ David Spangler
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“My work is about making candy for the eyes. It’s about grabbing your attention.” ~ David LaChapelle
- “Somebody said that I’m a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.” ~ Adrian Lyne
- “There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is – in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree – it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell.” ~ Mark Twain
- “My only challenge was to tell my truth, man… figure out what I had to say. These days, it’s not enough to boost that roomful of strangers. The young comic spends all their time trying to sound different from the million other jokesters grabbing for the mic.” ~ Lenny Bruce
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“Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.” ~ Dana Gould
- “I’m convinced that the greatness that matters more is the greatness people achieve through helping each other, through collaborating, more than the greatness that’s achieved by grabbing all you can or getting all you can or building all you can.” ~ Alex Bogusky
- “Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you’re grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this – this kind of magical reaction with a camera.” ~ Albert Watson
- “Terrifying mass shooting and high-profile officer-involved incidents have dominated the national conversation on gun violence in recent years. But most deaths by gun are not headline-grabbing massacres. They`re more private, more intimate, and perhaps in that way, even more horrifying. Domestic violence, make no mistake, domestic violence is a gun issue.” ~ Melissa Harris-Perry
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“[Tyson] Fury is big and [Wladimir] Klitschko’s not used to fighting someone his size. If Fury can stop Klitschko grabbing and avoid that big right hand, he’s got a chance. In the heavyweight division, it only takes one punch.” ~ Joe Calzaghe
- “My music is very edgy and the energy is very raw, but I am also getting out this positive message without being a teacher. I don’t want to hear anybody preach or teach things to me, especially when I was a kid. But there are messages that people are grabbing onto without me even realizing that they are messages.” ~ Shane Bunting
- “We have Borna virus genes. We’re part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird way might actually be grabbing these viruses, grabbing genetic material from the viruses that are infecting it and pulling them into their own genome.” ~ Carl Zimmer
- “Many of you have asked why it’s taken me so long to select a running mate. I have no intention of reaching into the political grab bag and grabbing any man to be my running mate. I’m going to reach in and grab a woman!” ~ Pat Paulsen
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“When everybody is playing at the same level, there’s so much more noise. And there’s less incentive for the people who should be rising above that noise to take time and invest in what they’re doing. It just becomes about hustling and grabbing attention.” ~ Colin Meloy
- “it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.” ~ Rainbow Rowell
- “I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.” ~ Manolo Blahnik
- “I’ve lost my mind,” Alex muttered, grabbing her knives again and stomping back across the kitchen. “I woke up this morning a boring little chef on planet earth, and somehow ended up in the Twilight Zone as a third-rate stand-in for Buffy the Vampire Slayer”.” ~ Lynsay Sands
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“Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi’s incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.” ~ Karen White
- “You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don’t grab the bone from him and tell him it’s not good for him. He’ll growl at you. It’s the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and he’s going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And you’ve got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people… I’m going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. I’m going to tell them about New Beginnings.” ~ David Wilkerson
- “We’re human beings we are – all of us – and that’s what people are liable to forget. Human beings don’t like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don’t really because they’re not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who’ll give them half a chance.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Re’lar Kvothe,” he said seriously. “I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language the world is whispering. I am trying to seduce you into understanding. I am trying to teach you.” He leaned forward until his face was almost touching mine. “Quit grabbing at my tits.” ~ Patrick Rothfuss
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“Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.” ~ Tom Hodgkinson
- “Just sit tight. Reinforcements should be here soon. Hopefully nothing happens before-” Lightning crackled overhead. The wind picked up with a vengeance. Worksheets flew into the Grand Canyon, and the entire bridge shuddered. Kids screamed, stumbling and grabbing the rails. “I had to say something,” Hedge grumbled. He bellowed into his megaphone: “Everyone inside! The cow says moo! Off the skywalk!” “I thought you said this thing was stable!” Jason shouted over the wind. “Under normal circumstances,” Hedge agreed, “which these aren’t.” ~ Rick Riordan
- “William strode to her. That’s how it’s done. Drink it in. She surveyed the carnage behind him. “Did you have fun?” He showed her his teeth. “Yes. Now they won’t take you anywhere.” Cerise stepped closer to him, so close he only needed to lean in and dip his head and he would kiss her. Since he saved her, maybe he could just grab her and— “That was the stupidest thing you have done since I’ve met you,” she ground out through her teeth. Belay the grabbing.” ~ Ilona Andrews
- “Why do I constantly feel as if all of you are speaking a foreign language? What is ‘grabbing a burger at the Hard Rock’ supposed to mean? (Julian) The Hard Rock Café is a restaurant. (Grace) You eat at a place that advertises its food is hard as a rock? (Julian)” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon , Grab quotes food
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“As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.” ~ Sarah Dessen
- “You surely can’t be trying to blame us for Erak’s habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn’t nailed down? No offence, Svengal.” Svengal shrugged. “None taken. It’s a pretty accurate description of Erak on a raid, as a matter of fact.” ~ John Flanagan
- “The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground. She ran over the frost-laden grass in her bare feet and threw herself at him, grabbing on to his neck with both arms. She held him so tightly his spine cracked. She was sobbing. Bawling. Crying so hard her whole body was shaking. He didn’t ask any questions, just wrapped himself around her. I’m not okay,” she said hoarsely between breaths. “Rhage…I’m not okay.” ~ J.R. Ward
- “Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They’re interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.” ~ Gore Vidal
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“James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people’s attention.” ~ Gene Simmons
- “Well, there’s nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.” ~ Chris Klein
- “If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features ‘Today’s specials’ on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don’t know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my ‘back-up’ glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser.” ~ Sloane Crosley
- “TODD!” I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I’m grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I’ll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back – “I thought you were dead,” he’s saying, his breath on my neck. “I thought you were dead.” “Todd,” I say and I’m crying and the only thing I can say is his name. “Todd.” ~ Patrick Ness
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“I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a man in a movie by grabbing his head and twisting it until the neck broke. Was that difficult? Could a man do it without a lot of practice?” ~ David Wong
- “Save yourselves!” Percy warned. “It is too late for us!” Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. “oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!” Nothing happened. “I said,” Percy repeated, “Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin.” Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. “oh no,” he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, “I am turning into a crazy dolphin.” ~ Rick Riordan
- “And we did, and it wasn’t bad. We ate the whole stupid can, we were so hungry. And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.” I’m gasping, feeling as though I am about to drown; I’m reaching for him blindly, grabbing at his collar.” ~ Lauren Oliver
- “For God’s sake, Stiff,” he says. “You don’t have to follow me,” I say staring at the maze of bars above me. I shove my foot onto the place where two bars cross and push myself up, grabbing another bar in the process. I sway for a second, my heart beating so hard I can’t feel anything else. Every thought I have condenses into that heartbeat, moving at the same rhythm. “Yes, I do,” he says.” ~ Veronica Roth
- “The shouts of triumph become infectious, and I lift my voice to join in, running toward my teammates. Christina holds the flag up high, and everyone clusters around her, grabbing her arm to lift the flag even higher. I can’t reach her, so I stand off to the side, grinning. A hand touches my shoulder. “Well done,” Four says quietly.” ~ Veronica Roth
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“You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.” ~ Cassandra Clare
- “Is there anyone in this apartment who hasn’t seen me naked?” I demanded, grabbing the sheet and the phone. “I genuinely hope so, Cassandra.” ~ Karen Chance
- “”Oh My God,” I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. “It’s the ax murderer.” “I doubt he would knock,” she said, but she was whispering, too, and didn’t move away from me.” ~ Rosemary Clement-Moore
- “Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.” ~ Veronica Roth
- “This is your heritage,’ he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.” ~ Justin Torres
