Quotes About Giving Up

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.

Bernie Sanders

#5. Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.

Syed Ather

#6. 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

#7. A great benefit of Sabbath keeping is that we learn to let God take care of us - not by becoming passive and lazy, but in the freedom of giving up our feeble attempts to be God in our own lives.

Marva J. Dawn

#8. A self-help guru would call this attitude "bending in the wind," but I just call it "giving up.

Gary Reilly

#9. There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

Quico Canseco

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success!

Joyce Meyer

#16. 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

#17. Give up on me giving up.

Masashi Kishimoto

#18. 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

#19. You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.

Wallace D. Wattles

#20. So remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

Leo Tolstoy

#21. And as fall turned to winter, the Darlington peach trees started dropping their leaves again, gently, like they were letting them go. It wasnt the same as giving them up. It wasnt the same as losing them.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#22. Let it be whatever it will be. Give up trying to manipulate. This is Freedom.

Mooji

#23. Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.

Leon Brown

#24. Evie, this is what we do. We hold hands. I'm not giving that up.

Carian Cole

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. I wake up every day trying to give something back to you that you can rock to and be proud of.

Kanye West

#28. Coach Hedge grunted like he was pleased to have an excuse. He unclipped the megaphone from his belt and continued giving directions, but his voice came out like Darth Vader's. The kids cracked up. The coach tried again, but this time the megaphone blared: The cow says moo!

Rick Riordan

#29. Never give up and take nothing for granted in life.

Dwyane Wade

#30. Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

Marian Wright Edelman

#31. When you realize how much you're worth, You'll stop giving people discounts.

Karen Salmansohn

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. Either way, you wrote the book and now you're complaining about the reviews I'm giving it," I quipped.
"Fair enough." He held up his hands, "I'm going to start writing the sequel which will be considerably less narcissistic. Will you read it?"
"Only if every other girl on campus hasn't.

Tarryn Fisher

#39. V tired to imagine giving up his proclivities. My monster needs to get out. Especially now.

J.R. Ward

#40. Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

Ann Cotton

#41. Wrong thinking leads to wrong emotions - discouragement and despair - and wrong thinking consequently leads to giving up.

Jim Berg

#42. Revelation is the first step to holiness, and consecration is the second. A day must come in our lives, as definite as the day of our conversion, when we give up all right to ourselves and submit to the absolute Lordship of Jesus Christ.

Watchman Nee

#43. We must give up all that we are in order to possess all that He is.

Heidi Baker

#44. Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

Robert Breault

#45. The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early '90s. I don't think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.

Gary Numan

#46. Surrender is not giving up, far from it. Surrender takes an enormous amount of courage. Often we are only capable of doing so when the pain of trying to control the outcome becomes too much to bear.

Bronnie Ware

#47. It's up to you, not about you

Sonya Withrow

#48. I think that if you can butter writers up enough, they might give you a little.

Kristen Bell

#49. 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

#50. Fair play to all those who dare to dream and don't give up.

Marketa Irglova

#51. Dagwood Bumstead was a great unrecognized hero of American literature. He showed up every day, he got knocked down every day, he never got to eat his sandwich every day, the dog jumped on him every day, his wife was giving him a hard time and he showed up every day.

James L. Brooks

#52. The happiest thing that can be said about democracy ... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#53. Give a Little Bit has a wonderful message and makes people light up and I get them to sing with me. It really has a message that is very eternal and is needed even more today than it was when I wrote it when I was 19.

Roger Hodgson

#54. 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

#55. The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.

Steven Redhead

#56. I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook and I'm saying everything in there out loud.

Kanye West

#57. I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

John B. S. Haldane

#58. I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

Oprah Winfrey

#59. It is better to risk starving to death than giving up on your dream. If you have given up on your dream, what's left?

Manoj Arora

#60. It was President [Bill] Clinton and the United States congress in 1998 which said that the regime has to be changed because the regime would not give up its weapons of mass destruction. We came into office in 2001 and kept that policy because Saddam Hussein had not changed.

Colin Powell

#61. First, perseverance trumps talent. Second, do what you want to do, otherwise why bother? Third, be ethical; it might rub off on others. Fourth, don't give up.

Jay Maisel

#62. Armed with my positive attitude and inherent stubborn nature, I keep my mind focused and my life moving forward. I stop to rest, pout and even cry sometimes, but always, I get back up. Life is giving me this challenge and I will plow through it, out of breath with my heart racing if I have to.

Amy B. Scher

#63. Before giving up, try hard.

Debasish Mridha

#64. To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.

Timothy Noah

#65. God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot ... You want to see where Christ crucified abides today? Go to where the poor are suffering and fighting back, and that's where He is.

Paul Farmer

#66. If you can give up the thing behind the door, the lock will be opened by itself! Sometimes giving up is the best key!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#67. Never give up on what makes you smile

Heath Ledger

#68. One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

Chanakya

#69. It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.

John O'Callaghan

#70. Why couldn't he say I reminded him of Ariel or something? Then again, Ariel was kind of stupid, giving up her voice for a dude.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#71. If you choose the latter, understand that you may be giving up the man and life God intended for

Nikita Lynnette Nichols

#72. Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

Calvin Coolidge

#73. We must always bear in mind that the primary purpose of our work, is not to get persons to join the church or to give up their bad habits or to do anything else than this, to accept Jesus Christ, as their Saviour.

R.A. Torrey

#74. If one person starts crying, I'll cry. If one person has no money, I'll give them mine. If I had a bicycle growing up, I always felt incredibly guilty when I see someone sitting at the bus stop.

Rose McGowan

#75. There's times you want to give up and times you want to move on ... you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.

Paul Pierce

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

A.J. Muste

#77. ...this would be my greatest fear: imagination giving up before the body does. I guess I'm not alone in this. Humans are a strange breed in the way our fear of getting old seems to be even greater than our fear of dying.

Fredrik Backman

#78. Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.

Iris Murdoch

#79. I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

Hannah Arendt

#80. I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

Elizabeth Strout

#81. Human entirety can only be what it is when giving up the addiction to others' ends.

Georges Bataille

#82. A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.

Conan O'Brien

#83. Then she took up her practice, not to prove her worth or to be seen, not in dignity or fear, but as though she were giving her whole life away as a gift to the world with every step.

Sallie Tisdale

#84. Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present.

Susan Meissner

#85. 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

#86. If work is part of your identity, think very carefully before you give it up. Giving it up won't make you a better mother; it will make you less of the person you are; and that will make you less of a mother.

Jean Marzollo

#87. 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

#88. On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all?

Ann Voskamp

#89. Number theorists are like lotus-eaters
having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

Leopold Kronecker

#90. It's better to show up than to give up.

Bernie Sanders

#91. You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.

Tupac Shakur

#92. Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it up.

J.L. Austin

#93. Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down.

Ettore Messina

#94. Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

Frederic Chopin

#95. Giving up also takes courage.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#96. Their heart grew cold
they let their wings down

Sappho

#97. Aw, you messed up your hair, Colton teased, lifting the crown with the tip of his finger and giving me a sexy wink.

Anonymous

#98. I'm not giving up on life. I'm giving up on today.

Dane Cook

#99. 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

#100. They always give you three ketchup packets. When you go back up and ask for more, the guy handing them out always treats you like you're taking from his personal stash. "Looks like my kids aren't having ketchup tonight."

Jim Gaffigan