Giving Up Quotes

At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

If you give up freedom to get security, you deserve neither.

I know. I seriously need to just give up men entirely. I wonder if Episcopalians can enter convents?

The only way two ever live more cheaply than one is if one of them gives up what he or she wants.

One of us might be assassinated and then my heir will be king. Don't give up hope just because chances are slim." "For the assassination or the heir, your majesty?

I can't leave her there all alone, surrounded by stone walls... She's too precious to give up.

Here is a good principle: If need be, give up your principles!

I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself!

If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

If we are given a chance to go back to our youth, we won't go back, because we cannot give up our accumulated wisdom and we cannot give up things that belong to our time!

We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up!

We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

I will never give up politics. I've tried to give it up three times, but I never made it. Politics mobilizes me. I won't last long if I give it up.

I won’t give up what I enjoy to look perfect. I want to find a happy medium between feeling good about my body and still having a beer and some barbecue.

I heard the call to give up all and follow Christ into the slums to serve Him among the poorest of the poor. It was an order.

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use.

With all the blessings our modern age has given to us, let us not give up the things that promote the workings of the Holy Ghost.

The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.

Give up meat to save the planet.

Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

Terrorism is the price of empire. If you do not wish to pay the price, you must give up the empire.

You should be home sleeping. What is the use of having a man in the house, if he cannot take care of you for a while?” “Mmm,” I said. “I give up. What's the use of having a man in the house?

Don't give up in your goals in life, I'm a perfect example of how dreams can come true.

We must never make our parents sad, even if this means giving up everything that makes us happy.

Few take up the burden of their own victory; most give up their dreams when these become impossible.

you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

Missionaries never give up on their dream of peace, even when they experience difficulties and persecution, which makes their presence strongly felt today.

We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment.

Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.

I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

Renunciation doesn't mean giving up things externally but rather it means diligently pulling out the weeds from the heart.

Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.

A real player is somebody who never gives up, who keeps thinking all the way through, who's scared, (darn) right, but plays through being scared.

How much liberty do with want to give up for a false sense of security?

Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?