Top 100 Quotes About Given Up
#1. My songs, well, they are sad, but in all of them the person singing them - me or whoever - is actually still trying and hasn't given up yet.
Eric Bachmann
#2. Your enemies still figure into God's plan. Their pulse is proof: God hasn't given up on them. They may be out of God's will, but not out of his reach. You honor God when you see them, not as his failures, but as his projects.
Max Lucado
#3. You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Wendell Phillips
#4. Those who unconsciously despair yet put on the mask of optimism are not necessarily wise. But those who have not given up hope can succeed only if they are hardheaded realists, shed all illusions, and fully appreciate the difficulties.
Erich Fromm
#5. Something I really enjoy about older couples is that they really have given up on getting everything right. They don't sweat the imperfections.
Rob Sheffield
#6. How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. I think it's because he likes you.'
'Well, that's too bad. I've given up that kind of thing.'
'What kind of thing?'
'Love, dating, the inevitable ensuing heartbreak.
Sydney Salter
#8. During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
#9. If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.
Arno C. Gaebelein
#10. What have you done? What have you given up?'
So many things, Cecily. More than you know.
Lauren DeStefano
#11. Whatever happens, the path of virtue should not be given up.
Sathya Sai Baba
#12. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.
Lee Kuan Yew
#13. Under the leadership of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the United States has given up the moral high ground that we used to occupy as an international leader.
Marty Meehan
#14. There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.
Ed Koch
#15. You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.
Charles Spurgeon
#16. I had given up the church, more because of its complicity with slavery than from a full understanding of the foolishness of its creeds.
Lucy N. Colman
#17. The attempt to restrain prices within limits has to be given up. A government that sets out to abolish market prices is inevitably driven towards the abolition of private property.
Ludwig Von Mises
#18. Today, she had yielded the sovereignty of her country to Eugenides, who had given up everything he had ever hoped for, to be her King.
Megan Whalen Turner
#19. Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same.
Grant Cardone
#20. The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.
Roger L'Estrange
#21. The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.
Richard Reti
#22. And he has never
given up his conviction that if you just try all the doors one of them is bound to be the Door into
Summer. You know, I think he is right.
Heinlein Robert A.
#23. I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.
Suzanne Collins
#24. I've given up wanting to make a killing or be a bigshot. I just want to find happiness and maybe open up a little roadside cafe in Idaho.
Douglas Coupland
#25. Power, however it has evolved, whatever its origins, will not be given up without a struggle.
Shulamith Firestone
#26. Hodge had given up a long time ago trying to live a better life or a different one;
all he wanted was not to be afraid, and so he was afraid all the time
Cassandra Clare
#27. The Golden Age is the most implausible of all dreams. But for it men have given up their life and strength; for the sake of it prophets have died and been slain; without it the people will not live and cannot die.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#28. For all its amazing strength, our hearts are made of eggshells, and sometimes all it takes is someone you'd almost given up on declaring their love for it to crack wide open
Leisa Rayven
#29. The reality of our business is that for every actor who's rolled up his tent and given up and gone home, the next day you hear about some shoe salesman at Macy's who had this audition and now he's Harrison Ford. There's always that carrot out there in our business.
Scott Bakula
#30. Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.
Wil S. Hylton
#31. Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.
Paul Valery
#32. If one defines the term 'dropout' to mean a person who has given up serious effort to meet his responsibilities, then every business office, government agency, golf club and university faculty would yield its quota.
John W. Gardner
#33. Institutional United Methodism in America has given up on cities and given up on young people, so no surprise we are declining by nearly 100,000 annually.
Mark Tooley
#34. In an undertone, I murmured, "This isn't over. I won't give up on you."
"I've given up on you," he said back, voice also soft. "Love fades. Mine has.
Richelle Mead
#35. Look at the people who review. Look at their commitment to being "right" and "safe". If I had listened to my critics I would have given up years ago.
John Fante
#36. If I had given up everything that my life was about ... I'd let cancer win before it needed to.
Elizabeth Edwards
#37. Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness
Italo Svevo
#38. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.
Dave Barry
#39. To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up.
V.S. Naipaul
#40. What I think I'll do is I'll do my best to yank Debbie out of me by the roots. And then I'll turn up on your doorstep, one day when you least expect it, and I'll hope by then you will have given up on your vampire.
Charlaine Harris
#41. All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.
Karl Barth
#42. When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.
Jeffrey Archer
#43. The good news is that God doesn't give up on us - even when we have given up on ourselves.
Joseph W. Walker III
#44. love can be painful. But real love? It beats any obstacle along the way. And it saves people who are beyond saving. People who the world has given up on. It can be redemption." I
Lola StVil
#45. I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days.
Tom Hodgkinson
#46. He'd given up blessings he hadn't been worthy of for the chance to be with her, and now he'd lost that, too.
Ann Brashares
#47. What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.
Martin Buber
#48. Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.
Frank Ocean
#49. I feel like human beings cover up their scent with all these different things and products. I feel like we've given up our ability to engage with people because we don't know how people smell anymore.
Nikki Reed
#50. I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Oscar Levant
#51. A freedom given up is not so easily regained.
Rivera Sun
#52. One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. One of the reasons I come to California is that the Republican party seems to have given up on California, and my message to those in California is that we're going to compete nationally as a party, and that includes California.
Rand Paul
#54. Aleksander," I whispered. A boy's name, given up. Almost forgotten.
Leigh Bardugo
#55. Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
Albert Ellis
#56. She had given up something for which she had long yearned for the mere possibility of a love, and a life, with him. With him.
Yet, she had no idea how he felt about her. How powerfully love and admiration and pure, simple awe flowed through him for her.
Laura Kaye
#57. Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.
John Hawkes
#58. The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and to common sense.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#59. Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#60. He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.
Maya Banks
#61. The effective prayer of faith comes from a life given up to the will and the love of God. Not as a result of what I try to be when praying, but because of what I am when I'm not praying, is my prayer answered by God. All
Andrew Murray
#62. You propose to give up everything to God; be sure, then, to include yourself among the things to be given up. - ST. BENEDICT.
Various
#63. I didn't ask you to give up anything for me," she told him, "but I would have given up everything for you." The war is over, and I have lost. War. Ha! As if she could have fought a dead woman. The battle had been over before it began. "Until the end of forever, Layel." -DELILAH
Gena Showalter
#64. I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
Vincente Minnelli
#66. The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
Umair Haque
#67. I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security, the authority that we've given Democratic and Republican presidents, all have contributed to a fraying of the fabric of our democratic republic.
Jeremy Scahill
#68. Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.
Jennifer Pahlka
#69. I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who said I had given up on America and I was just waiting to die.
Benjamin Carson
#70. I'm not leaving you. We still have a chance."
"How?"
Kayson's voice echoes his hopelessness. He's already given up.
"Hey, as long as we are still breathing, we still have a chance. If you quit, then you're quitting on me too.
Brandy Nacole
#71. For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.
Rebecca West
#72. If you start to feel that you have given up too many parts of yourself to be with your partner, then one day you will end up looking for another person in order to reconnect with those lost parts.
Esther Perel
#73. You make me believe that things I'd given up on a possible.
Tracy March
#74. You know, this is the first time in many years that I really wished I hadn't
given up smoking. It would give me something to do with my hands, so
that I wouldn't use them to strangle you.
Gary Goldstick
#75. I haven't given up on working ... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.
David Axelrod
#76. Forget worrying about the break-up of celebrities you don't even know. I have long since given up trying to figure out why even my closest friends split up.
John Niven
#77. Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.
Swami Vivekananda
#78. Art is a spiritual practice. If it weren't for art, I'd have given up on God a long time ago. This cathedral though....is very convincing.
Janice Macleod
#79. It was not the flesh we would have chosen, but I had long since given up dreams of resembling anyone from the movies and, with the pragmatism of the perfectly average, come to realise that this was me and that was fine.
Kate Griffin
#80. But you were the hero, weren't you? You were the one who made me brave when I might have given up.
Carrie Anne Noble
#81. Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.
Nancy Reagan
#82. Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self.
C.S. Lewis
#83. In the post-9/11 world you cannot give him the benefit of the doubt. As a result of our going into Iraq, not only is Saddam Hussein gone, but Qaddafi has given up his weapons of mass destruction and tremendous progress is being made in Iraq.
Peter T. King
#84. Carli's was a small club at the end of a passage between a sporting-goods store and a circulating library. There was a grilled door and a man behind it who had given up trying to look as if it mattered who came in. (Smart-Aleck Kill)
Raymond Chandler
#85. [Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.
Brandon Sanderson
#86. Someone who doesn't care if they get Tater Tots or turnip slurry is a person who has given up on life.
Charlie Jane Anders
#87. But the soldiers would have gladly given up their beds to a woman." "Yes, and I hate them for it." She pushed him away. "It's the arrogance of men that leads them to sacrifice themselves. Not real consideration.
Karl Schroeder
#88. He said cynicism's self-protection, a defense mechanism used by cowards who give up on love because they're afraid love's given up on them.
Linda Yellin
#89. The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.
Henry Walter Bates
#90. I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began
C.S. Lewis
#91. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.
Ovid
#92. As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.
John Carroll Lynch
#93. We already have a federation. The 11, soon to be 12, member States adopting the euro have already given up part of their sovereignty, monetary sovereignty, and formed a monetary union, and that is the first step towards a federation.
Joschka Fischer
#94. I'd given up Catholicism in my teens but something of it stays with me. I try to create the perfect sentence - that's as close to godliness as I can get.
John Banville
#95. Every age but ours has had its model, its ideal. All of these have been given up by our culture; the saint, the hero, the gentleman, the knight, the mystic. About all we have left is the well-adjusted man without problems, a very pale and doubtful substitute.
Abraham H. Maslow
#96. Marketing isn't done by computers, it's done by people. And people who sense opportunity and have the confidence to be remarkable will always defeat defensive actions by people who have given up.
Seth Godin
#97. In fact, I've essentially given up on the idea of flight altogether and accepted that I'm going to be an angel-blood who stays earthbound, a flightless bird, like an ostrich. Maybe, or in this weather, a penguin.
Cynthia Hand
#98. For this I would be damned forever. For this I would have given up everything.
Cassandra Clare
#99. The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.
Grant Cardone
#100. He'd given up squid merchanting when he'd found that the creatures inhabited his dreams, all leggy and cold.
James P. Blaylock
