Giving Up famous quotes
04-09-2025
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Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.
-- A. J. Muste -
It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.
-- Aaron Patzer -
But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.
-- Abbi Glines -
Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.
-- Abbi Glines -
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
-- Abdul Kalam -
Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.
-- Abraham Maslow -
I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.
-- Abu Nuwas -
Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.
-- Adam Young -
Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?
-- Adele -
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
-- Adi Shankara -
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.
-- Adi Shankara -
Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'
-- Adrienne Bailon -
What if you let go of every bit of control and every urge that you have, right down to the most infinitesimal urge to control anything, anywhere, including anything that may be happening with you at this moment? If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.
-- Adyashanti -
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
-- Agnes Martin -
Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.
-- Ai Yazawa -
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
-- Aidan Chambers -
Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
-- Aimee Mullins -
We say that to 'give up all evil and to develop the good' is the heart of the Buddha's teaching. If we only make merit but have not stopped doing bad things, then we will never have a day of completion. It is like an overturned bowl which is left outside in the rain. Even if the water is falling right on it, it only touches the outside and not the inside. In this way the bowl will never get full.
-- Ajahn Chah -
If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.
-- Ajahn Chah -
To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
-- Ajahn Chah -
As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.
-- Akon -
Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to The Today Show, and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.
-- Al Roker -
We could say that love is a tenacious adventure. The adventurous side is necessary, but equally so is the need for tenacity. To give up at the first hurdle, the first quarrel, is only to distort love. Real love is one that triumphs lastingly, sometimes painfully, over the hurdles erected by time, space and the world.
-- Alain Badiou -
One wants never to give up this crystalline perspective. One wants to keep counterpositioning home with what one knows of alternative realities, as they exist in Tunis or Hyderabad. One wants never to forget that nothing here is normal, that the streets are different in Wisebaden, and Louyang, that this is just one of many possible worlds.
-- Alain de Botton -
I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.
-- Alain Robert -
God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.
-- Alan Brennert -
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
-- Alan Paton -
Give up the struggle and the fight; relax in the omnipotence of the Lord Jesus; look up into His lovely face and as you behold Him, He will transform you into His likeness. You do the beholding - He does the transforming. There is no short-cut to holiness.
-- Alan Redpath -
Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.
-- Albert Camus -
I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When I was a student, I had lots of ambitions like that. But when I had to give up my studies I learned very quickly that none of it really mattered.
-- Albert Camus -
Without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yeild nothing on the plane of freedom
-- Albert Camus -
Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.
-- Albert Einstein -
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
-- Alberto Manguel -
There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.
-- Alberto Salazar -
I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.
-- Alex Garland -
Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it's never really over until the whistle blows.
-- Alex Morgan -
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
-- Alex Winter -
Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.
-- Alexander Wang -
To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isnt there, its easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, itll come. Its definitely harder work than some people think.
-- Alexandra Chando -
I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.
-- Alfred Nobel -
My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.
-- Alice Cooper -
I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
-- Alice James -
Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
-- Alice James -
The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of a happy childhood, can restore vitality and creativity if a person is able to experience that he was never loved as a child for what he was, but for his achievements, success and good qualities. And that he sacrificed his childhood for this love, this will shake him very deeply.
-- Alice Miller -
I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.
-- Alice Neel -
Going back to school is like going back in time. Immediately, for better or for worse, you must give up a little piece of your autonomy in order to become part of the group. And every group, of course, has its hierarchies and rules- spoken and unspoken. It is like learning to live once again in a family- which, of course, is the setting where all learning begins.
-- Alice Steinbach -
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
-- Alice Walker -
When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies in bed. Ivy who used to be alive. Ivy who used to be. Ivy who used. Ivy who. Ivy-who-is-not-me. Not me. Not me. Not me.
-- Alison McGhee -
Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?
-- Alistair Overeem -
One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable excitement, especially when combined with fresh air and exercise. How frequently have I, with great difficulty, persuaded patients who were never off my doorsteps to take up golf, and how rarely, if ever, I have seen them in my consulting room again.
-- Alister MacKenzie -
We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.
-- Allen Iverson -
If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.
-- Alma Gluck -
I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.
-- Alva Myrdal -
You can't type what a lesbian is. We're anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us.
-- Amanda Bearse -
I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I absolutely won't give up.
-- Amanda Holden -
If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.
-- Amanda Peet -
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
-- Amby Burfoot -
Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.
-- Amby Burfoot -
You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for?
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.
-- Amy Chua -
Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.
-- Amy Chua -
When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.
-- Amy Chua -
A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.
-- Andie MacDowell -
In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.
-- Andre Ward -
If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.
-- Andrew Forrest -
If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.
-- Andrew McDermott -
People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
-- Andrew Vachss -
Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.
-- Andy Law -
Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.
-- Andy Mineo -
Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. Â It is an investment.
-- Andy Stanley -
You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.
-- Angel Haze -
We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up.
-- Angus Buchan -
I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
-- Anita Diament -
To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.
-- Anita Shreve -
Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.
-- Anjelica Huston -
A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.
-- Ann Althouse -
It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.
-- Ann Beattie -
Never ever give up, even - and especially when - there's no chance of winning
-- Ann Curry -
People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.
-- Ann Druyan -
MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do.
-- Ann Shulgin -
You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.
-- Ann Voskamp -
But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.
-- Anna Benson -
My mom and dad, you're my heart, thank you for keeping me going all these years and never letting me give up.
-- Anna Gunn -
Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.
-- Anna Sui -
You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.
-- Anne Bernays -
There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.
-- Anne Fortier -
Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.
-- Anne Lamott -
The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.
-- Anne Lamott
