Giving In Quotes

#1. There is less alms-giving in America than in any other Christian country on the face of the globe. It is not in the temper of the people either to give or to receive.

Frances Trollope

#2. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Is the ground worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.

Rumi

#3. Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

Nadia Boulanger

#4. You think I'm giving up. I'm not. I'm giving in.

Kamand Kojouri

#5. It isn't a perfect place. There are no perfect places. But nobody cares about perfection when there are sand castles to build and kites to chase, children that are being born, old hearts that are giving in.

Lauren DeStefano

#6. The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down.

Colleen Hoover

#7. Civilization depends on continually making the effort, of never giving in. It needs to be cared for by men of goodwill, protected from the dark.

Iain Pears

#8. A lack of giving in the life of a person will bring him to poverty.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. She was a filly that would take a lot of persuasion be-fore giving in to meet my needs, and oddly enough I didn't mind putting in the work.

Michelle Hughes

#10. The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

Matt Taibbi

#11. What separates Masters from others is often something surprisingly simple. Whenever we learn a skill, we frequently reach a point of frustration - what we are learning seems beyond our capabilities. Giving in to these feelings, we unconsciously quit on ourselves before we actually give up.

Robert Greene

#12. I'm not giving in to anyone else's idea of how I ought to feel and look at 70. 'Retirement' is not a word I can even visualize. I retire when I go to bed!

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#13. I can't give in. Giving in means living in the Labyrinth, losing, dying here. It means letting go of the string that's my only way out.

Skye Warren

#14. I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

Sam Simon

#15. Being. Not being. Giving in. Holding out. No matter what I do, it hurts.

Victoria Schwab

#16. We were all the same, it seemed to me, all of us dented and scratched and damaged, held together with pins and duct tape, the walking wounded making one last stand in the dark before giving in to the inevitable".

Greg Gifune

#17. I was ready to finally acknowledge my complete lack of control over this larger than life connection we shared. I wasn't giving in to him. It was a fight I couldn't win.
It was a fight I didn't even want to fight.

T.M. Frazier

#18. Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.

Ann Brashares

#19. Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

John Piper

#20. I think about never losing my voice, never giving in, never selling out, always keeping black, always sticking to the street. Staying neighborhood and not Hollywood.

Paul Mooney

#21. Any extended period of negative emotions can lead to you giving in to despair and accepting your fate. If you remain alone for a long time, you will decide loneliness is a fact of life and pass up opportunities to hang out with people. The loss of control in any situation can lead to this state.

David McRaney

#22. I'm not giving up You're not giving in This battle will turn into a war Before I let it come to an end.

Colleen Hoover

#23. But she believed there was a thin line between accepting one's fears and giving in to them altogether.

John Corey Whaley

#24. Never to whine; to accept what came; to wait for better; to take what you could; to let no one, not even yourself, know how near to giving in you were.

Robin Jenkins

#25. [N]o one's ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It's just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

L. Neil Smith

#26. We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.

John Wooden

#27. If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope. He, who exists only to kill the hopes of others, could not destroy the hope within himself.

John Connolly

#29. Falling in love often is crucial. You just have to let it nourish you without giving in to it. Why turn it off entirely? Why deaden any part of yourself? Won't death do that for you, and soon enough?

Elisa Albert

#30. Some women were talking about how I put out. And that's just not that case. I don't put out - unless I'm asked very, very politely, and that's not putting out, that's just giving in.

Kristen Schaal

#31. Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970.

Jeff Henderson

#32. We are giving in to the dangerous temptation to take the Jesus of the Bible and twist him into a version of Jesus we are more comfortable with.

David Platt

#33. But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

D.H. Lawrence

#34. Up to that point I never really knew what my character would be expected to do, and prior to accepting the job I had actually turned down the role three times before finally giving in.

Gil Gerard

#35. It's important to understand that at every point of opposition to who we are or to what God has called us to do, we are presented with the options of either conforming and giving in, or standing our ground and becoming stronger in who God has made us to be

Gabriel Wilson

#36. Dear Lord, help me to be courageous enough to speak honestly to You and to myself about areas where I'm giving in to compromise. Show me how to rely on Your strength for more self-discipline in my life - not for my glory, but for Yours. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Lysa TerKeurst

#37. Gratitude takes three forms: a feeling in the heart, an expression in words, and a giving in return.

John Wanamaker

#38. You may not believe it, but standing up to people is the only way to get through life with your mind intact. Nothing was gained by giving in.

Diana Palmer

#39. Eventually I learned to reject this advice. Somehow, I figured out that it was easier for me to resist certain temptations by never giving in to them.

Gretchen Rubin

#40. We may feel that a particular habit 'isn't too bad,'but continually giving in to that habit weakens our wills against the onslaughts of temptation from other directions.

Jerry Bridges

#41. The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.

Ernst Haas

#42. Giving in to terrorism will yield more terrorism, because it works.

David Silverman

#43. A secret for releasing struggles in life is to learn to yield. Yielding does not mean giving in or giving up. It just means moving with the flow of the current, which makes everything easier and more fluid.

Peggy Sealfon

#44. Do you hear me, mountain?' She yelled into the storm. I'm not giving in. I crossed an ocean to get here. I climbed this mountain. I will not let her die.

Lili Wilkinson

#45. If you haven't done much giving in your life-try it and see how you feel afterwards.

Michelle Moore

#46. To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the will to survive. That allows you to quickly adapt to the situation and dedicate yourself to the present moment rather than wallow in denial.

Laurence Gonzales

#47. Sylvester Graham, he of the eponymous health-food cracker, claimed that a man who could make it to the age of thirty without giving in to the temptations of his sexual urges would be a veritable god.

Hanne Blank

#48. Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people.

Barack Obama

#49. Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.

Lord Chesterfield

#50. I guess I'm giving in to life. It's like the ocean breaking against the rocks: it simply wears me down until I given in. It was only a matter of time.

Marata Eros

#51. I'm always impressed by how compassionate the gaming community can be when they have a cause and appreciate that they leverage our platform to raise money for those in need. We continue to encourage giving in support of important causes, including Extra Life 2012.

Emmett Shear

#52. Giving in order to get is not giving.

Alan Cohen

#53. To simply think about the people, as the dominators do, without any self-giving in that thought, to fail to think with the people, is a sure way to cease being revolutionary leaders.

Paulo Freire

#54. Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.

Donna Lynn Hope

#55. It's okay to cry. Giving in to the tears is terrifying,
like freefalling to earth without a parachute. But it's vital to our wellbeing as we process the deep anguish.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

#56. When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Helen Schucman

#57. Giving in its purest form is done with a heart that says I wish it were more, and I expect nothing in return.

Mary Hunt

#58. There is a difference between killing while in the throes of Hunger or Blood Frenzy, and giving in to the monster. Once you fall, once you willingly cross that line, it changes you. Forever.

Julie Kagawa

#59. What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present. Salvation

Marianne Williamson

#60. Dont worry" Emma said "There are worse things than having your heart broken."
"Like What?" Zoe asked skeptically.
"Never having it broken. Never giving in to love

Lisa Kleypas

#61. He had a childish urge to throw the phone down. Only the prospect of the pain he'd inflict on himself in the process of leaning over to retrieve it stopped him from giving in to the impulse.

Samanthe Beck

#62. The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.

Karl Marlantes

#63. There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

Etty Hillesum

#64. Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.

LeCrae

#65. Giving in to fear alters God's best plan for your life. So use the power of God's Word to do what He wants you to do ... even if you have to do it afraid! The rewards are great.

Joyce Meyer

#66. Giving in to the forces of low ambition would be an act of climate appeasement. This is our Munich moment.

Chris Huhne

#67. Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains

Kami Garcia

#68. No one can master love through force. It is only by giving in to such a powerful energy that we can learn more of who we really are.

Timothy Moran

#69. Really? You've started drinking whiskey before lunch?" Rush wasn't giving in ...
"He's fucking your sister. Hell, anyone that stupid has to drink to stay sane," Dean said in a bored tone.

Abbi Glines

#70. TOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable.

Blake Mycoskie

#71. All is lost again,
but I'm not giving in,
I will not bow,
I will not break,
I will shut the world away

Breaking Benjamin

#72. He splayed his fingers in her hair and stared at her for a few moments. "I'm giving in to the need to do what I wanted the minute I saw ye exit the Land Rover with the Scottish gales blowing about yer golden hair."
"What?"
"I'm going to kiss ye.

Vonnie Davis

#73. Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

Carol Ann Duffy

#74. The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving in to the very temptations he resisted
power, relevancy, spectacle.

Shane Claiborne

#75. Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

Julianna Baggott

#76. There is silence and then the familiar smack of Beatrice Muriel's palm against her forehead. "A love marriage," she says. In her opinion, love marriages border on the indecent. They signify a breakdown of propriety, a giving in to the base instincts exhibited by the lower castes and foreigners.

Nayomi Munaweera

#77. What does that matter when he makes me happy?" There was an adjustment her mother made then, a slight giving in, a relaxing of her shoulders, as if she wondered for just a moment what that kind of freedom might feel like.

Rae Meadows

#78. Weakness is giving in to temptation. Strength is resisting it.

Guillermo Del Toro

#79. The trouble with us is that we try to find happiness where it does not exist, in transient, impermanent things; we try to find it in the gratification of desire; we seek it in animal pleasure. Happiness lives in giving, in doing, not in getting, in grasping.

Orison Swett Marden

#80. Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

Vincent Van Gogh

#81. getting angry or giving in when a woman tests you results in automatic failure.

Bruce Bryans

#82. I've had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

Christopher Hitchens

#83. The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Rosa Parks

#84. Yes, sergeant. Without a fight. This man can make water run uphill and he has a commander. I love the idea of giving in without a fight. I've fought for ten years and giving in without a fight is what I've always wanted to do." Water

Terry Pratchett

#85. That was the strength of Ellysetta's weave. Bright, unyielding,indefatigable love. Love that did not know surrender. Love that did not understand limitations or even basic self-preservation. Love that would batter itself to death before giving in to defeat.

C.L. Wilson

#86. Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Dag Hammarskjold

#87. When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again ...

Karen Marie Moning

#88. What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

Barbara Pym

#89. Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Sebastian Faulks

#90. The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

Rumi

#91. If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.

Chip Ingram

#92. Giving in the spirit of love, expecting nothing in return is how God gives and so should we, as we are a piece of our creator.

Alice Hocker

#93. There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is nothing gained by giving in to the pressures of group vulgarity.

Erica Jong

#94. Christ." Evander fell back against the pillows, giving in with a smirk. "What the fuck have I unleashed?"

"The man that you wanted me to be."

Blue eyes burnt on his face as he glanced up at his lover. "The man I always knew you were," he was corrected.

Jae T. Jaggart

#95. Giving, in the form of volunteer work: enhances your immune system, lowers cholesterol levels, strengthens your heart, decreases the incidence of chest pains, and generally reduces stress.

Azim Jamal

#96. I now realize that I habitually fight against a leisurely pace; I resist giving in to slowness.

Daniel Klein

#97. To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

Marianne Williamson

#98. Is giving in to the photographer's presumably natural impulse to compose and light well sometimes okay and not okay other times?

David Byrne

#99. The complete truth, McKenzie, is I'd do anything for you, but you ask for nothing. You won't confide in me. You won't rely on me. You're so preoccupied trying to decide if you can trust your feelings that you won't consider giving in to them.

Sandy Williams

#100. While appearing weak is okay, giving in to weakness is definitely not.

Alyson Noel