Top 100 I Don't Give Up Quotes
#1. I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.
Kevin Costner
#2. I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever ...
Destiny Booze
#3. The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself up about negative things.
Phylicia Rashad
#4. I might lack in technicality, I might lack in strength, but there's no quit in me.........I don't give up.
Dan Hardy
#5. I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while.
Lindsey Vonn
#6. I don't give in, I don't give up, I don't take no for an answer.
Doris Roberts
#7. I don't give up and I don't wear down. I'm not just rock, I'm diamond.
Orson Scott Card
#8. I don't give up, and I make sure to keep my standards high.
Lukasz Gottwald
#9. I'm a fighter through and through. I don't give up. I have a strong heart and I will push until there's nothing left in me.
Liz Carmouche
#10. I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
Carly Fiorina
#11. When I'm writing a score, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve on it, even when I think it's working well. I don't give up on things, and am always trying to make incremental improvements, which means I never finish writing a score early!
Geoff Zanelli
#12. As a personality, I'm fighter, you know. And I don't give up, and if I believe I'm correct, I'm right, then I work, and I fight. Okay, this could be over a chess board, this could be in life, and so I defend my principles.
Anatoly Karpov
#14. I don't give up on people, even when they give up on me.
Mark Andrew Poe
#15. I don't mind a chase, baby. Whether it's a sprint or a marathon makes no difference to me. I'll reach the finish line eventually. I don't know what you're running from, but I don't give up easy. I'll be seeing you soon.
Aidan Willows
#16. My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!
Iris Dement
#17. Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.
Deepika Padukone
#18. I'm a very tough guy, and I fight hard, and I don't give up. And that makes me friends and that makes me enemies, and I know that.
Alan Dershowitz
#19. I'm disciplined. And I'm persevering. And I don't give up very easily ... and I'm reliable.
Madonna Ciccone
#20. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.
Johnny Cash
#21. For me to get through the toughest periods in my life, I had to look within to find the energy to do it. I don't give up. Never have. Never will.
Jonah Lomu
#22. If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life ... I try to live my life the same way.
Eddie Alvarez
#23. I just want to say that dreams do come true. Don't ever give up on your dreams. Sometimes it just takes a little bit longer for some of us.
Robin Thicke
#24. I can say this: don't give up. Not on love but, more important still, not on you. Never let yourself believe that you are unlovable or flawed in any way. You deserve to be loved. You deserve kind words and an unwavering eye.
Menna Van Praag
#25. All too often I try to skate away from the things I'm afraid of and things I don't like and am unwilling to accept. I'm selfish and difficult to handle. I give my men cause for concern. I worry them, but they haven't given up on me yet and I love them all the more for it.
Gillibran Brown
#26. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.
Anne Frank
#27. Fame, do I like it? No. It has bought a lot for me in my career, but there are a lot of downsides to it. You give up your privacy. I did it to myself but not to my family and friends. You don't ask for it. You just have to live with it.
Cara Delevingne
#28. Jack, I know I'm not perfect, but I'm really hoping you're not ready to give up on me yet. I don't have gifts or love letters or anything like you had. But what I can give you is my word, my promise, my vow to you. Which I will back up with actions, by the way.
J. Sterling
#29. 'Give up ... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.
Willie Aames
#30. Don't give up, Chuck. We're gonna solve this thing, get out of here. I'm a Runner now - I promise on my life I'll get you back to that room of yours. Make your mom quit crying. And Thomas meant it. He felt it burn in his heart.
James Dashner
#31. If I had to cram all my tournament experience into one sentence, I would say, Don't give up and don't let up!
Tony Lema
#32. People always think something's all true. I don't give a damn, except that I get bored when people tell me to act my age. Sometimes I act a lot older than I am, I really do. But people never notice. People never notice anything.
J.D. Salinger
#33. Most actors here go to the West Coast; I ended up going to Ireland. My buddies who left drama school, they had this arrogance - 'We don't want to typecast ourselves.' But I said, 'I want to do Irish parts. That's the thing that's gonna give me the leg up.'
Brian F. O'Byrne
#34. What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.
Chaske Spencer
#35. Reject me and I don't know how to give up. Accept me and I will still continue.
Santosh Kalwar
#36. Jonah squealed, jumping up and down and shaking his pom-poms. His skirt swished around his scrawny yellow knees.
"Jonah, can I give you a piece of sisterly advice?"
"Yeah."
"If you ever want to lose your virginity, don't do that again. Ever.
Carrie Harris
#37. We all have our moments of being fed up ... but give me your hand and I'll hold it. If you are being bullied I am thinking of you. You are not alone and it will get better. Don't let them win. It's okay not to be okay.
Jessie J.
#38. JARED: .....I've also learned people don't give up what they don't want to give up.
Bijou Hunter
#39. I don't think the dreams die - I think that people give up. I think it gets too hard.
Tyler Perry
#40. Don't give up the calling, Magda. Know yourself. Know what you are. Though few would admit it, even those on the council, I truly believe we all need you. - Councilman Sadler
Terry Goodkind
#41. - You said that going on the Road to Santiago is important. For it, one must give up everything for some time: family, work, projects. And I don't know whether I'll find everything the same when
Paulo Coelho
#42. I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
Sam Childers
#43. You look spectacluar, Cam.' She smoothes out his shirt and straightens his tie. 'You look like the shining star you are!'
'Let's hope I don't give birth to complex elements.'
She looks at him quizzically.
'Supernova,' he says. 'If I'm a shining star, let's hope I don't blow up.
Neal Shusterman
#44. Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.
Martina Hingis
#45. The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.
Rian Johnson
#46. The day I go out there and don't want to win is the day I will give up.
Tony McCoy
#47. I don't want to beg or promise you things I can't give you. There isn't much of me to give, but what I have is yours. This is all up to you, Sadie. If you want me, I'm yours. If you can't do this, then I'll walk away and leave you alone. I swear.
Abbi Glines
#48. I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'
Frank O'Hara
#49. What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same time, I think what stands out is, as superheroes, you don't give up; you don't surrender. I think that's what makes a superhero.
Ellen Wong
#50. I can't explain why I think I can get there, when all the odds are against me. But I do. Even when a big part of me is saying I should give up, I can't. Even when I don't want to keep going, I still do it
Rachel Joyce
#51. I'm not complaining about my cell phone - all my friends are in there, and all my favorite songs and all my favorite Benedict Cumberbatch GIFs; I don't want to give it up. But cell phones are the worst for talking on the phone.
Rainbow Rowell
#52. I know my life will change one day. I just have to wait and don't give up. Try to do the same!
Matias Zitterkopf
#53. What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don't give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it's not easy.
Craig Mello
#54. To sum up - i f you want to be more creat ive, star t loving yoursel f enough to give
yoursel f permission to fai l . In fact , bet ter yet , don' t even wor ry about winning or
losing. Just DO.
Scott Bourne
#55. I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.
Pankaj Mishra
#56. Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think that's necessarily true. As much as we have to ask men to step it up, we have to take a look at ourselves and be willing to give up some of that parental power.
Jessica Valenti
#57. I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context.
Jerry Perenchio
#58. I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.
Don McLean
#59. Just before our wedding, a German coffee farmer warned me that I was about to make a big mistake. "The longer you live in Arusha, the poorer you'll be," he said. "Don't give up your life in America. There is nothing for you here." My
Sara Tucker
#60. I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash.
Louisa May Alcott
#61. I don't like the word 'rock star' or 'super star.' I am a guitar player, a songwriter who got lucky because I stayed at it and didn't give up, long enough that people noticed me.
Randy Bachman
#62. Nigel hit his button again. "I need security." "No, you don't," Taggart said, his mouth curling up in a deeply gruesome approximation of a grin. "You just need to give me five minutes with him." "Ian, you promised you would stop killing people. I'm tired of getting blood out of your clothes.
Lexi Blake
#63. There are many people who don't do well on a vegetarian or vegan diet, that for them, meat is a very nutritious food. So, I'm not prepared to give up meat. I don't think we need to give up meat, but we certainly need to change the way we raise meat and diminish the amount of it in our diet.
Michael Pollan
#64. Don't give up faith ... Even if common sense tells you that you should.
Pittacus Lore
#65. I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.
Ron Wyden
#66. I'm not ready to settle down with anyone. Especially not someone that I've only just met. I'd have to be stark, raving mad to give up my life. I don't know how I can trust you. I. Don't. Know. You.
Sofia Grey
#67. Never say "I don't care"! We are all looking up to you. Dare to break the fence that confines you! Make it happen!
Israelmore Ayivor
#68. I don't think we should give up on ritual. I don't think we should give up on any possible means of experiencing God.
Brian D. McLaren
#69. I am still a student. My classmates study really hard, so I feel like I should too. But they always say things like: "You don't have to.", "Aren't you busy?", "Just give up, you have another way."; But I don't think that's right. There's no reason for me to give up, I didn't quit high school.
Seohyun
#70. Bluebell: Please, sir, I'm only a little [car] and I've left all my petrol on the grass. So if you don't mind eating the grass, sir, while I give this lady a ride-
Hazel: Bluebell, shut up!
Richard Adams
#71. Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy.
Jonathan Anthony Burkett
#72. Anderson sent me to give you this he said. I believe the subtext was kiss and makeup. This time I was sure I made a face. "I rather kiss a copperhead." I grabbed the envelop from his hand. He laughed and held up his hands in surrender. Don't worry. It was only a figure of speech.
Jenna Black
#73. Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?
Brandon Sanderson
#74. I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.
Gwethalyn Graham
#75. I don't worry about what other people think of me. It's one of the things I most admired about my dad growing up. He didn't give a hoot what others thought. He was who he was. It's one of the qualities that has kept me most sane.
Chris Kyle
#76. I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books.
Rick Moody
#77. I lifted my eyes, and, for the first time, admitted the truth.
"I gave up," I whispered.
"Don't give up," she whispered back.
Mitch Albom
#78. Disappointments will come, rejection will come, and failures will come in the midst of the fulfilment of your dream. Don't give up, don't give in, try to push little harder; I know it won't be easy to give that push but keep pushing my friend be persistent and you'll see great results.
Euginia Herlihy
#79. I don't even have a moment where I felt like I wanted to give up
Park Bom
#80. What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
Barack Obama
#81. I am one man with a laptop. When I give the world my characters, it's because I don't want to keep them for myself. You don't like what I made them do? Fucking tell me I'm wrong! Rewrite the story. Throw in a new plot twist. Make up your own ending.
J.C. Lillis
#82. So you've made a few bad decisions. So have I. So has Elias. So has everyone attempting to do something difficult. That doesn't mean that you give up, you fool. Do you understand?
Sabaa Tahir
#83. I'd say that people give up because they don't know the possibilities that are out there for them, nor do they realize their potential.
Nolan R. Baum
#84. But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
Fiona Apple
#85. I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.
Randy Carlyle
#86. Someday, I suppose I'll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I'll probably be rocking fast, because I don't know what I'll do without a job.
Pat Summitt
#87. I don't think that I am happy,
but then again, I don't know.
Sometimes I get so caught up
in the process of living--
of eating, dressing, taking the train to work,
that I don't give it enough thought.
Maybe happiness is being content.
But is it really?
Samantha Schutz
#88. I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
Madhuri Dixit
#89. I don't ever wanna come across too intimidating, so as long as I look like you can come up and give me a hug, that's good.
Jessica Simpson
#91. I look up at the sky.
I see a cloud passing just under the sun.
The top is all electric white.
I remind myself.
Don't give up, I think. Not just yet.
Matthew Quick
#92. I'm in loooove with this boy, and when you in love with someone, you don't give up on 'em, mo matter what.
Lauren Myracle
#93. Don't give up.' Ilyas felt his eyes tear up.
'I'm not giving up. I'm taking precautions to protect the only person I really care about in this whole damn world.
Astrid Amara
#94. I had that overwhelming feeling I get when I'm about to give up on a plan, that big rush of air when I realize that my stroke of genius has flaws, and I don't have the brains or energy to fix them.
Gillian Flynn
#95. Don't ask me to give her up before I even really get to know her ... Because you're not going to like my response.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#96. You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.
Celia Cruz
#97. Hey, you're taking up the entire sidewalk, bitch!" She scowled and yelled, "I have children!" I yelled back at her, "Well, next time give your husband a blow job and you won't! Why should I have to walk into oncoming traffic because you don't want to give a little head?
Joan Rivers
#98. Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.
Walter Mosley
#99. Because I love you. Because love, to some, is a weakness. A pressure point. Because I would give up anything for you, including the GP. And because I don't mean to give up either.
Chloe Neill
#100. I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
William Howard Taft
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