Quotes About Giving Something Up

#1. And, finally, I know, too. That throwing away this mess doesn't mean I'm giving something up. Or losing something I can't get back. It's just that there are too many pieces and too much dust. I'm just ready for something whole.
- Pete Cassidy

Cynthia Rylant

#2. Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.

M. Scott Peck

#3. Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Nora Roberts

#4. Everything seemed paused for change, but was she? Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. And, she admitted, she prized routine, tradition, even repetition.

Nora Roberts

#5. The price for flight. I'd never thought of it that, of my decision having any sort of value. But of course it did. Every choice meant giving something up to gain something else.

Karen White

#6. In the Catholic tradition, the idea of giving something up on a Friday - the act of self denial - has always been tied with being generous to those in need.

Vincent Nichols

#7. Everybody seems to have given up hope of trying. I haven't. It isn't easy and it isn't supposed to be, but I'm accomplishing something. How many people give up a lot to do something good. I'm sure we would have found a cure for cancer 20 years ago if we had really tried

Terry Fox

#8. Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

A.J. Muste

#9. Police in Texas arrested a man who was using the alias 'Barack Obama' while trying to steal money from 35 ATMs. They could tell something was up when a guy named Barack Obama was trying to take money from banks instead of giving it to them.

Jimmy Fallon

#10. Buster closed his eyes, held his breath, and, before he realized that the gun had been fired, a gust of heat and wind passed over him and deconstructed the beer can atop his head, the sound of something irrevocably giving up its shape and becoming, in an instant, something new.

Kevin Wilson

#11. The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

Howard Raiffa

#12. I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

Dan Hawkins

#13. Don't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left.

Bear Bryant

#14. I was 23 when I learned how to cook; I grew up around the same time. It was precisely then that Thanksgiving started to mean something more. Growing up, Christmas was always about me, and eventually you, when I finally started to enjoy the giving part. But Thanksgiving is always about us.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#15. Sometimes giving up something shows more love than trying to hold onto it.

Ann H. Gabhart

#16. If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.

Lucas Samaras

#17. I'm the kind of guy that once I decide I'm going to do something I have a hard time just giving up on it without giving it a fair shot.

Drew Roy

#18. 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

#19. Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it.

Scott Rudin

#20. Never want to say anything so strongly that you give up the option of finding something better. If you have to say it, you will.

Richard Hugo

#21. Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#22. The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.

Bilal Philips

#23. The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.

David Attenborough

#24. I wanted to give young girls something positive to look up to ... I wanted to give them their Blizzard of Aahhhs, Ski Movie or High Life, but done in a way that also shows the elegance, grace, community and style that is unique to women in the mountains.

Lynsey Dyer

#25. Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.

Dan Millman

#26. Giving up and letting go are too very different things, Lily. Giving up is admitting you're beat and walking away. Letting go means you're setting something free. You're releasing something that's been keeping you stuck. That takes faith and more than a little courage" -Pepere

Cynthia Lord

#27. Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

Andre Gide

#28. When something is no longer working, changing your plans is not giving up. It's not failure.

Kylie Scott

#29. Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

Darren Johnson

#30. Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

Andy Law

#31. I'm so sorry, I continue. And it's like the last word is a hurdle and I can't leap it, because something in the word snags my voice and suddenly I am giving everything up. I am letting my shoulders fall and I am feeling myself become the absence, feeling myself become that gasp and sob.

David Levithan

#32. Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

Brian Dyson

#33. You overcome it by hard work. By not giving up. By striving for something better. You learn to forgive and move on, and you learn from your pain. You don't let it control you, and you certainly don't hide from it.

Sawyer Bennett

#34. With the great people that you work with, it's that they're never giving up and they're never thinking something's finished until they've really, really run out of time. They keep pushing in case there's a better idea around the corner.

Steven Price

#35. A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use.

Neale Donald Walsch

#36. We need objects to remind us of the commitments we've made. That carpet from Morocco reminds us of the impulsive, freedom-loving side of ourselves we're in danger of losing touch with. Beautiful furniture gives us something to live up to. All designed objects are propaganda for a way of life.

Alain De Botton

#37. I like poetry when I don't quite understand why I like it. Poetry isn't just a question of wrapping something up and giving it to someone else to unwrap. It just doesn't work like that.

Mark Haddon

#38. They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?

Scott Rudin

#39. Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good; it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again.

Portia De Rossi

#40. Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

Henry Van Dyke

#41. I didn't know growing up what I wanted to do. I finally settled on broadcast journalism as a way to satisfy the urge to perform and also do something important, which is to give people in a democracy information to make good decisions.

Mort Crim

#42. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life for something bigger than yourself, or for someone else. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved, for the sake of something greater.

Veronica Roth

#43. It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.

Marie Rutkoski

#44. But faith doesn't mean that to me anymore. Now it means someone seeing something in you that you don't, and not giving up until you see it too.

Jessica Knoll

#45. I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

John Darnielle

#46. Satisfaction comes from giving up wishing I was somewhere else or doing something else.

Sue Bender

#47. Quitting-it was a dirty word in a place where pilgrims had endured harsh winters and where pioneers had struggled through death and disease to create new lives. Giving up or stepping back or setting aside something you thought you wanted- it was almost a shameful act.

Deb Caletti

#48. You can't give up until the finish line, that's something I've learned.

Gwen Jorgensen

#49. A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

Arthur Dean

#50. Giving up on something is like admitting you never wanted it in the first place.

Elizabeth Norris

#51. In a speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump responded to criticisms from Senator Lindsey Graham by giving out Graham's personal cellphone number. Graham knew something was up when he saw he had more than one missed call.

Jimmy Fallon

#52. I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

Elia Kazan

#53. The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#54. Judd figured he must have done something right along the way. How else could a rebel arrow have earned the right to call this amazing woman his own? Even if it was a mistake, too damn bad. He was never giving her up.

Nalini Singh

#55. Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.

Simon Pegg

#56. I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

Samuel Pepys

#57. You don't get anything without giving up something.

Sara Zarr

#58. I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.

Jessica Lynch

#59. I'm sorry it took me so long," he says with a voice full of remorse. "But I'll never be able to thank you enough for not giving up on me. You saw something in me that gave you hope in us, and you didn't give up on that. And Tate? That means more to me than anything anyone's ever done.

Colleen Hoover

#60. If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up!

Michael Jordan

#61. Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

Jeffrey Pierce

#62. At its best New Wave/punk represents a fundamental and age-old Utopian dream: that if you give people the license to be as outrageous as they want in absolutely any fashion they can dream up, they'll be creative about it, and do something good besides.

Lester Bangs

#63. It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history ... You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs ... let me make something clear.

Neale Donald Walsch

#64. If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.

Barbara Kingsolver

#65. Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

Katherine Anne Porter

#66. We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#67. If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

Stephen Chow

#68. Simply giving something 'a shot' is not giving something our 'best,' for our best is made up of as many 'shots' as it takes in order to be our best.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#69. If something's not working out, but you keep hammering at it in the exact same way, go after something else for a while. That's not giving up, that's just letting the universe have its way.

Sophia Amoruso

#70. it was easier to live without
something you've never had, because you didn't know what you were missing, but once you've had
something it was difficult giving it up.

Cora Reilly

#71. A director once said, when I was complaining about something or other, "I agree, it is terrible. The worst thing you can do to an actor is give him a job." That shut me up and broke off a big hunk of my actor's cynical armor.

Jeff Raz

#72. As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

Olivia Goldsmith

#73. When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

Charles R. Swindoll

#74. I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.

Kevin Powers

#75. As long as you're giving up quality records and you're makin' hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they'll always want to be attached to something that's doin' great.

Akon

#76. Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.

Niki Lauda

#77. I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out of movies or the newspaper business or something. It's so boring, painting the same picture over and over.

Andy Warhol

#78. The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.

Alberto Giacometti

#79. Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

John Cleese

#80. I really wanted something, giving myself permission to screw up wasn't an option

Tara Kelly

#81. My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.

Audre Lorde

#82. When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness ... I've lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

Mike Tyson

#83. It's like hearing a song for the first time and being struck by it, haunted by it, wanting to hunt it down and catch it, because the song sums up something you didn't know you wanted to say, giving you chills and goose bumps.

Kirsty Eagar

#84. When a young artist asks me a question, I want to do what I can to give them an answer if I have it within me. I know what I know. I won't make up stuff. But if it's something I've been through, I'll share my experiences and tell them the truth.

Michael Tait

#85. Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?

George Seaton

#86. Two people should see a relationship as a constant opportunity to improve and be improved. When lovers teach each other uncomfortable truths, they are not giving up on love. They are trying to do something very true to love: which is to make their partners more loveable.

The School Of Life

#87. Give these people money, let them play, and they'll come up with something.

Vannevar Bush

#88. Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

Louis Mann

#89. Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Lewis E. Lawes

#90. I realized that Judaism required me to give up something that meant too much to me ... Bacon cheeseburgers.

Shawnee Smith

#91. My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.

Guy Fieri

#92. I'm idealistic so my life outlook is to never give up. Even if something seems absolutely impossible, I will run as hard as I can go.

Choi Minho

#93. So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger.

Victor Hugo

#94. Love is something, if you give it away, you end up having more.

Malvina Reynolds

#95. I was brought up Catholic, and even as a little girl I was affected by the idea of giving back - doing something for the needy, something of significance.

Joan Ganz Cooney

#96. There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.

Jay Samit

#97. I keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away

Conor Oberst

#98. If you're not playing a big enough game, you'll screw up the game you're playing just to give yourself something to do.

Peter McWilliams

#99. Father has taught me that when something is lost, whether dear or not, giving up the search is sometimes best and often enough the lost article finds its owner.

Cassandra Krivy Hirsch

#100. Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

Andy Stanley