Top 100 Gives Up Quotes
#1. It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
#2. The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Erich Fromm
#3. Your pupillary muscles relax when your body gives up.
D. B. Weiss
#4. Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold itself from death. What it gives up it takes back.
Wendell Berry
#5. Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.
Paulo Coelho
#6. For the players to put their minds and vigour into the game is not enough for victory. They must also put in their souls. The team that gives up to the game all its strengths and puts into it its mind and soul cannot leave the court defeated.
Viacheslav Platonov
#7. Clark Kent gives up his powers just to have sexual intercourse with Lois Lane in a glittery bed. Who'd make such a stupid swap? If you could fly? Deflect nuclear missiles into space? Turn back time by spinning the planet in reverse? Sexual intercourse can't be that good.
David Mitchell
#8. For everyone here in Ohio and across America who's been ever been counted out but refused to be knocked out, for everyone who has stumbled but stood right back up, and for everyone who works hard and never gives up
this one is for you.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#9. But how many times can you upset someone and still return to normal? Isn't there a point when the person gives up on you?
Maria V. Snyder
#10. They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.
John Hodge
#11. If a writer, despite his natural gifts, gives up writing because no one will publish him, then he is no writer. The artist is distinguished by his urge to create, which by very definition is a concomitant of talent.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#12. Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen.
Jim Valvano
#13. He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.
Greg Chappell
#14. In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.
Roger Mudd
#15. I think classical music tuition is, well, was when I was a child, was an abomination. I think in some ways it is one of life's great tragedies for everybody who gives up an instrument.
Hugh Laurie
#16. The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.
Sherry Argov
#17. I thought that would go without saying, that if a mother gives up her children, it's very painful.
Doris Lessing
#18. I think anything is possible to anyone who dreams, dares, works and never gives up.
Xavier Dolan
#19. 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.
Mahatma Gandhi
#20. No one, however long they have held the post, lightly gives up the great office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. Certainly I did not.
Nigel Lawson
#21. When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.
Mignon McLaughlin
#22. [T]here comes a point where the fear is too great and the human spirit just gives up and a child wanders off numb and directionless and ends up following a crowd and watching a killing.
Hilary Mantel
#23. I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Convention is the day a person gives up on the human race.
Sarah Vowell
#24. Fighting is life ... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?
Alistair Overeem
#25. Let's get one thing straight - there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of 'quitter.'
Jenna Morasca
#27. Has it ever occurred to you that married couples endure watching their spouses grow old and feeble and senile all the time? That it's part of marriage? A hard part, to be sure, but not so hard that one just gives up on the institution altogether.
Sabrina Jeffries
#28. The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.
Robert Kiyosaki
#29. A sacrament
like marriage
means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
Jodi Picoult
#30. Southern California, which is shaped somewhat like a coffin, is a giant sanatorium with flowers where people come to be cured of life itself in whatever way .... This is the last stop before the sun gives up and sinks into the black, black ocean, and night - usually starless here - comes down.
John Rechy
#31. You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
#32. It is hard to beat someone who never gives up.
Babe Ruth
#33. A home is not a place. It's not a country or a town or a building or possession. Home is with the other half of your soul, the person who shares in your grief and helps you carry the burden of loss. Home is with the person who throughout it all never gives up on you and brings you eternal happiness.
Tillie Cole
#34. It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.
Babe Ruth
#35. Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment ... Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.
Augusto De Luca
#36. When reading a book, be very certain that you never go past a word you do not fully understand. The only reason a person gives up a study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone past a word that was not understood.
L. Ron Hubbard
#37. The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.
Confucius
#38. In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.
Robin Morgan
#39. Unfortunately, the author of a book pretty much gives up control of the story when the producers take over a book to make it into a movie.
Rodman Philbrick
#40. Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.
Dan Webster
#41. If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.
Anthony Horowitz
#42. sum up Casablanca in just four clipped, declarative sentences: "Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy gets girl back again. Boy gives up girl for humanity's sake.
Noah Isenberg
#43. He is not stubborn, not narrow-minded, not lazy, not stupid. There was just no easy explanation. So it was left up in the air, a kind of mystery that one gives up on because there is no sense in just going round and round and round looking for an answer that's not there.
Robert M. Pirsig
#44. Everyone who gives up a serious childhood dream
of becoming an artist, a doctor, an engineer, an athlete
lives the rest of their life with a sense of loss, with nagging what ifs,
Glenn Kurtz
#45. But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#46. The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.
Mason Cooley
#47. The mind gives up a lot sooner than the body, making it tough to know if you're really in trouble or if you're just making excuses, calling it quits before you've reached your full potential.
Kara Richardson Whitely
#48. There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#49. Love isn't just about feeling sure of the other person, knowing what he would give up for you. It's knowing with certainty what you are willing to surrender for his sake. Make no mistake; each partner gives up something. Individual dreams are surrendered for a shared one.
Robin Hobb
#50. A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#51. After my older sister Pauline died, Faith dried my tears night after night as I cried myself to sleep. Faith persisted, and it woke me up every morning after, forcing me to leave the security of my down-covered cave and feel the warmth of the sun on my face. Faith never gives up.
Terri Enghofer
#52. Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.
Jerry Falwell
#53. When you give up in your mind, your mind gives up on you. Once this happens, the rest is downhill.
Timi Nadela
#54. Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.
Munir Butt
#55. It is at this point that normal language gives up, and goes and has a drink.
Terry Pratchett
#56. In your discipline, if doubt comes let it come. Do your work - let doubt carry on with its work and see which gives up first!
B.K.S. Iyengar
#57. When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#58. The truth is: God has always been with us. God has always been for us. God has always been our Dad. GOD NEVER GIVES UP ON US
Tony Seigh
#59. I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
Quentin Bryce
#60. Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up.
George A. Sheehan
#61. I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.
Bear Bryant
#62. Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.
Gilbert Newton Lewis
#63. Women survive their men. Men
men like him
don't live long when their women are gone. You'll see
he'll just start wandering, all the familiar things are going to be gone with her. He gets tired and he fades and then he gives up and then he's gone.
Neil Gaiman
#64. The daughter never ever gives up on the mother, just as the mother never gives up on the daughter. There is a tie there so strong that nothing can break it.
Rachel Billington
#65. Whomever speaks first gives up some power.
Lisa Gardner
#66. He who gives up shyness in monetary dealings, in acquiring knowledge, in eating and in business, becomes happy.
Chanakya
#67. With a positive attitude, obstacles ahead of you have two options; either they give way for you to pass or they remain as you bore a hole through them and find your way. A leader with a positive attitude never gives up!
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.
Kim Chernin
#71. And that's what F**k It does. Sometimes things feel as if they're just too painful to bear. And some part of you just gives up caring. The thing that mattered so much, somehow doesn't matter any more. And the freedom that comes from that is a blast and a half.
John C. Parkin
#72. The dream lives on, Reece, and it never gives up on you, no matter what you might think. Dreams sometimes just change.
J.M. Darhower
#73. Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
Oliver Goldsmith
#74. He looks at me for a long moment. "You're not the type of woman who gives up easily, are you?" I
can't tell if he admires this trait or sees it as a sign of deteriorating mental health.
Eileen Cook
#75. credited with one of the most poignant summaries of commitment to Christ ever penned: "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep [this temporal life] to gain what he cannot lose [eternal life with Christ].
Tim LaHaye
#76. Whatever things a man gives up,By those he cannot suffer pain.
Thiruvalluvar
#77. The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.
Robert James Waller
#78. A meshummed gives up one God for another. I don't want either. We live in a world where the clock ticks fast while he's on his timeless mountain staring in space. He doesn't see us and he doesn't care. Today I want my piece of bread, not in Paradise.
Bernard Malamud
#79. The moment a student gives up his right of personal judgment, he is in for accepting all the humbugs of life
Lin Yutang
#80. Impossible is just another word for 'loser who gives up.
Michele Jaffe
#81. I'm not the kind of person who gives up without a fight.
Michael Landon
#82. 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
#83. It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom--for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself. Declaration of Arbroath (1320)
J.R. Tomlin
#84. He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.
Gautama Buddha
#85. The only way two ever live more cheaply than one is if one of them gives up what he or she wants.
Meg O'Brien
#86. Be contented with the things of the present. The cows and the dogs are, and so are all animals; and that is what makes them animals. So if man rests content with the present and gives up all search into the beyond, mankind will have to go back to the animal plane again.
Swami Vivekananda
#87. The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains.
Ernest Hello
#88. Love is an act.
Love is patient and kind.
Love is goodwill and long suffering.
Love never gives up.
Love never loses faith and hope.
Love endures every circumstances.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#89. A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#90. He never gives up on who I am or who I could be. He doesn't run away when things get complicated.
Susane Colasanti
#91. The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#92. That's when I gave up pinball. When the times comes, everybody gives up pinball. Nothing more to it.
Haruki Murakami
#93. My wandering imagination never gives up on me and always finds ways to explore what my emotions entail.
Chimnese Davids
#94. Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair.
Angelica Hopes
#96. The difference between an achiever and a loser is,
An achiever never gives up, never settles and lastly never forgets.
Akash Lakhotia
#97. Ah, one doesn't give up one's country any more than one gives UP one's grandmother. They're both antecedent to choice - elements of one's composition that are not to be eliminated.
Henry James
#98. That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing.
Ray Bradbury
#99. A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.
Dot Richardson
#100. There is a difference between an author and a writer. The author never gives up when things go wrong, but the writer does.
Millicent Ashby
