Top 100 Quotes About Give Up
#1. I have spent my spare time studying literature popular with young women of this planet. One should always study the battlefield."
Sean glanced at him. "And?"
"I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.
Ilona Andrews
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Acting is such a bizarre way of life. Unless you're really passionate about it, you should give it up. Don't beat yourself up.
Stockard Channing
#5. When you finally give up striving, you will be left with what you have been striving for.
Alan Cohen
#6. Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
Gloria Swanson
#7. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.
Brandon Boyd
#8. Religions are strange. They seem to be caught in some dream which they won't give up and trying to convince others of the truth of their dream, when in fact each person is having their own dream. Take what you need from the religions and just leave the rest, and be all right with that.
Art Hochberg
#10. So give up negative thinking and realize your potential
Sunday Adelaja
#11. Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.
Syed Ather
#12. I give him a skeptical look. "You want to show me your dick?"
"If it'll help convince you." He drains the last drops of his Scotch and stands up. "Come on, let's go.
Kendall Ryan
#13. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.
George Eliot
#14. I was creating commitment devices of my own long before I knew what they were. So when I was a starving post-doc at Columbia University, I was deep in a publish-or-perish phase of my career. I had to write five pages a day towards papers, or I would have to give up five dollars.
Daniel Goldstein
#15. Explain to the mothers and fathers of American servicemen that may come home in body bags why their son or daughter have to give up their life?
Sean Hannity
#17. When you have received Him, stir up your heart to do Him homage; speak to Him about your spiritual life, gazing upon Him in your soul where He is present for your happiness; welcome Him as warmly as possible, and behave outwardly in such a way that your actions may give proof to all of His Presence.
Saint Francis De Sales
#18. We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That's just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
Mae Jemison
#19. To give you an idea what it feels like to be going in with some of the best baseball players of all-time, I mean it is fantastic. I have to say this about them, there are so many of these guys up here that were my role models, people I looked up to, people I wanted to be like.
Dave Winfield
#20. They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks.
Clint Eastwood
#21. No matter how long it takes, never give up on your dreams
Phoenix Summers
#22. Poverty and mistakes are setbacks but you should never allow them to make you give up on your dreams.
Timothy Pina
#23. Our job isn't to turn our bulb down to make the person next to us more comfortable. Our job is to turn our bulb up and give the next person permission to do the same. Warren did that.
Crystal Zevon
#24. I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.
Poppy Delevingne
#25. Here is another paradox: We become better people only when we give up the quest to become better people. That
Charles Eisenstein
#26. Resignation is to equate with the hope to give up; a possible renewal process is initiated, which do things clean at its roots.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#27. There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.
Chris Hedges
#28. 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
#29. Grab life by the balls, keep a firm grip and never give up.
Emma Paul
#30. I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn't give up. Then I wrote one more book.
Beth Revis
#31. You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.
Ram Dass
#33. I guess that's just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.
Lauren Oliver
#34. Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!
W.C. Fields
#35. My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off.
Gabby Douglas
#36. 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
#38. I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.
Lita Ford
#39. Nobody as the right to give up on a whole generation before it's even had a right to prove itself.
G. Willow Wilson
#40. Men give up one thing to take up another, but in spite of numerous changes they do not find peace. They are no better than monkeys who let go one bough to take hold of another, only to let it go again.
Gautama Buddha
#41. Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success!
Joyce Meyer
#42. Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
Sharon Salzberg
#43. When you lay down with neglect & sleep around with excuses, you wake up with failure ...
When you marry your goals & remain intimate with your vision, you'll give birth to your dreams.
Jay Danzie
#45. 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
#46. Like the marathon, life can sometimes be difficult, challenging and present obstacles, however if you believe in your dreams and never ever give up, things will turn out for the best.
Meb Keflezighi
#47. 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
#48. I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
Deborah Harkness
#49. Shut up, cowboy."
Yes, ma'am."
And give me a kiss."
Yes, ma'am.
Autumn Cornwell
#50. Everyone holds his or her own key to success and happiness. It's just that sometimes you have to test out a lot of wrong keys first to find the one that fits.
Brittany Burgunder
#51. Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.
Mooji
#52. Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.
Leon Brown
#53. If you look around at the people in show business today they are basically the people who didn't give up.
Brent Spiner
#54. Never give up your day job. I do all sorts of things, but at the end of the day, it all boils down to 'The Today Show,' and I love doing this thing, and they will have to blow me out of here with dynamite before I leave.
Al Roker
#55. I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.
Paolo Di Canio
#56. Anyone can be a businessman; never give up.
Ehab Atalla
#57. Nothing's going to stop you or deter you or cause you to give up. Pursuit, because nobody actually expects it to happen. They want you to be continuous in your efforts. And perfection because there's just nothing better.
Frank Luntz
#58. Give me your morning. Breakfast, waking up, walking to the bus stop. Be as specific as possible. Slow down in your mind and go over the details of the morning.
Natalie Goldberg
#59. I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.
Kanye West
#60. I'd no room left in me for thinking of trifling things. I could feel fear start up and try to take down my rage, but I'd not give it up.
Anna Freeman
#61. Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.
Lauren Tarshis
#62. With little going for me other than unstoppable eagerness, a sense of total commitment, and a stubborn refusal to give up on what felt like a divinely ordained scheme, I cast myself upon the waters of the world's oceans.
Roz Savage
#63. We give up too soon. The sure way to succeed is to endure to the very end.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#64. If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
Jeff Bezos
#65. Because I would give up a crown for her.
Emma Chase
#67. I'm in this business to make films, not get deluded by the system. The system is set up to give you a headache.
George Tillman Jr.
#68. Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.
Julia Cameron
#69. I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.
You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a bad day.
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
#70. Never give up and take nothing for granted in life.
Dwyane Wade
#71. O wandering graves! O restless sleep!
O silence of the sunless day!
O still ravine! O stormy deep!
Give up your prey! Give up your prey!
Oscar Wilde
#72. I don't give up. I'm a plodder. People come and go, but I stay the course.
Kevin Costner
#73. When you get divorced, you don't just give up the person, you give up all the dreams you had with that person.
C.D. Reiss
#74. Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.
Frank Gehry
#75. It's really important to not allow rejection to define who you are. Just because someone did not value or approve of you does not mean you should give up on yourself or let go of the amazing dreams you have on the inside.
Jamie Larbi
#76. Yeah, I'll believe that the day you give up your lip balm."
I gasped. "Never. Without it my lips feel naked and alone." (Charity Rising)
DeAnna Kinney
#78. '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
#79. Rise and rise again until lambs become lions
Robin Hood
#80. I know I'm not strong enough to be everything that I'm supposed to be. I give up. I'm not stong enough. Hands of mercy won't you cover me? Lord right now I'm asking you to be Strong enough. Strong enough for the both of us.
Matthew West
#81. Wait a second Why should you care what they think of you? When you're all alone, by yourself, do you like you? Do you like you? You don't have to try so hard, you don't have to give it all away, you just have to get up You don't have to change a single thing.
Colbie Caillat
#82. I used to do films for money earlier. I never knew what perception meant. I didn't give too much attention to scripts. It was either to buy a house or to buy a car. There was a certain frivolity to the way I used to pick up things. I wasn't taking my career seriously.
Emraan Hashmi
#84. We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.
Bryant McGill
#85. I'd give you the moon right now," she said.
Levi's eyes flashed happily, and he hitched up an eyebrow. "Yeah, but would you slay it for me?
Rainbow Rowell
#86. Daisy, Daisy, the coppers are after you,
If they catch you they'll give you a month or two,
They'll tie you up with wi-er
Behind the Black Mari-er,
So ring your bell
And pedal like hell
On a bicycle made for two.
Iona Opie
#87. As an advice columnist, I spend a lot of time reading through psychology journals to ensure that I give the most up-to-date advice.
Amy Dickinson
#88. I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
Harrison Ford
#89. She wondered if seeds ever resented the sun, knowing it would shine with no quarter and give them no choice but to push their heads up out of the safety of the hard, hard ground and bloom.
Julie Anne Long
#90. You of all people would know people who commit suicide... can't go to the paradise of the stars. Even if you did commit a horrible crime... you have to live! You can't just give up and die! You have to live and atone for your wrongs!
Noriko Ogiwara
#91. The next time you're disappointed, don't panic. Don't give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He's still in control.
Max Lucado
#92. One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.
Faraaz Kazi
#93. I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.
Elton John
#94. Nothing would give up life:
Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.
Theodore Roethke
#95. Don't be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!
John Newman
#96. The elector is young and ambitious, but he is not his father. He wants to fight for you, just as I fight for you, but first you need to give him that chance. And if you put your might behind him and lift him up, he will lift us up.
Marie Lu
#98. Maybe you just haven't found the right girl yet?" I say softly not wanting him to give up. Saxon's eyes meet mine, "maybe she just hasn't found me yet." - Stephanie Smith, Wherever You Will Go
Stephanie Smith
#99. Never give up the search to have back what was lost too soon.
Alice Steinbach
#100. I don't give up. That makes me incredibly resilient or maybe stupid or just plain stubborn. Whichever ...
Destiny Booze
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