Giving Up Quotes

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

Give up learning, and put an end to your troubles.

Before I tried LSD, I'd been going to a psychologist for a couple of years. I found out about success that you have to fight for it a lot, then when you achieve it, you can't give up the fight.

I feel lucky that I didn't have to give up music in exchange for getting clean. I wouldn't recommend that anyone else continue to DJ while they're getting clean.

I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit

I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake.

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

I used to buy everything at garage sales. It was hard to give up! I’d be like, ‘But this crazy sweater is amazing, and it only cost 25 cents!’

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set!

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.

I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse you're giving up your wings and inheriting my curse you're letting go of me you're letting go

I can't tell the difference," I said. "Between not fighting and giving up.

A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

Never give up. Last year I was trying to give up but I couldn't.

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.

Don't give up the search for happiness because you're afraid of getting hurt.

Never give up! If adversity presses, Providence wisely has mingled the cup, And the best counsel, in all your distresses, Is the stout watchword of "Never give up."

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore.

If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.