Top 100 Quotes About Giving Up
#1. Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.
Rick Atkinson
#2. I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.
Billy Koch
#3. Strength is not only about winning the game; it's also about not giving-up.
Vikrmn
#4. It's worth it. It's worth giving up the sun and magic.
Richelle Mead
#5. I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.
Bernard Malamud
#6. Victory breeds hatred. The defeated live in pain. Happily the peaceful live,
giving up victory and defeat.
Gautama Buddha
#7. Waves broke, then sighed as if they were searching, not finding, then coming back, never giving up the search, returning again and again.
Terri Farley
#8. It was like this. the brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: i'm giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.
Franz Kafka
#9. This is my dream. I ain't giving up. I see a band like the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and they've had their ups and downs, but they've continued with heart. We look up to that. I see Papa Roach being around for another 15 years. We've always wanted to be a career band.
Jacoby Shaddix
#10. Giving up drinking for life is easy.
I've done it loads of times.
Peter James West
#11. They were two lovely choices. One of them meant giving up every chance of a decent life forever ... and the other one scared me out of my mind.
Frederik Pohl
#12. You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."
"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.
Judy Blume
#13. What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.
Alan Keightley
#14. Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.
Daniel Pipes
#15. My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'
Lemmy Kilmister
#16. How unlucky she was--born with adventurous hooves that were stuck inside a pen. But she wasn't giving up. If there was a way out, Flora said to herself, she would find it.
Chris Kurtz
#17. As I read the Gospels, I never saw a time when Jesus was a doormat. Jesus found a perfect balance, and for me it has been an ongoing search to find the line to walk between making people happy and giving up too much in order to do so.
Shawn Michaels
#18. But even she had figured out that there was no point giving up a great job and following him to the ends of the earth, when he simply refused to make any promises about, or even discuss, the future.
Danielle Steel
#19. The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.
Jon Oringer
#20. A secret for releasing struggles in life is to learn to yield. Yielding does not mean giving in or giving up. It just means moving with the flow of the current, which makes everything easier and more fluid.
Peggy Sealfon
#21. Yeah. It's impossible. Giving up just like that before you even started. Not even trying to change, to you it's impossible to change. Are you going to forever beat yourself down?
Kayoru
#22. Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.
Edward St. Aubyn
#24. People write to me and say, 'I'm giving up, you're not talking to me.' I just write them a simple message like, 'Never give up,' you know? And it changes their life.
Justin Bieber
#25. Still, how did you show the world's biggest control freak that the secret to lasting love meant giving up control? I didn't know, but I intended to find out.
Jeaniene Frost
#27. The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.
Rian Johnson
#28. Not asking questions: Giving up on your dreams: Settling for less than you deserve causes you pain, a pain owned by the majority.
Be among the few who are inquisitive, forge plans to chase their dreams and take intentional action to live the life aligned with their potential.
Tony Curl
#29. Therefore, you might end up, like be dead, with still having that notion of 'not giving up' in your mind.
Jay Mark D. Saga-ad
#30. Progress is hard, achievements are easy, and giving up is easier still.
Kevin Focke
#31. There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.
Jerry Only
#32. Giving up does not mean you are weak, it just means you're strong enough to let go.
Anonymous
#33. Dedication is committing to who/what you love and never giving up. Be persistent, believe in yourself, even when others don't.
Jessica Zayas
#34. The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.
Gabriel Fielding
#35. Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.
Cameron Conaway
#36. For me giving up is way harder than trying.
Kanye West
#37. It wouldn't be the first time she had seen herself obliged to accept with smothered irony other people's interpretation of her conduct. She often ended by giving up to them --it seemed really the way to live --the version that met their convenience.
Henry James
#38. In functional families the roles are chosen and are flexible. The members have the choice of giving up the roles. In dysfunctional families the roles are rigid.
John Bradshaw
#40. Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.
Richard Pinhas
#41. Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.
Lily Tomlin
#42. It's worth it, worth giving up the sun and the magic.
Richelle Mead
#43. Whenever you think of giving up , remember what made you keep going until now
Unknown
#44. As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.
Augusten Burroughs
#45. Lucern was worth giving up chocolate. Dark chocolate, white chocolate, milk chocolate - she would happily give it all up for him.
Lynsay Sands
#46. Letting things go doesn't mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are things that cannot be
N.a.
#47. Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
Adi Shankara
#48. The ability to last in motherhood requires giving up expectations for our own lives, deciding that sacrificing our desires and wants for the sake of our family is our gift of worship to our heavenly Father. To
Sarah Mae
#49. What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
Patrick Swayze
#50. Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond ... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.
John Browne, Baron Browne Of Madingley
#51. Giving up animal fats has also meant shifting over to vegetable oils, and over the past century the share of these oils has grown from zero to almost 8 percent of all calories consumed by Americans, by far the biggest change in our eating patterns during that time.
Nina Teicholz
#52. I may be the one leaving, but you're the one giving up everything and walking away.
Loni Flowers
#53. If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.
Winston Churchill
#54. However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.
Paul Gauguin
#55. I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.
Barbara Lee
#56. Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.
Charles Grandison Finney
#57. There were times when i felt in a slump or lonely but i never thought of giving up
Sandara Park
#58. I knew it would be all of those things and so much more to me, but it was his heart I was yanking from his chest with my decision, and that's what mattered to me. I was giving up a piece of my own as well, but it was a choice.
His was just collateral.
Rachael Wade
#60. 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
#61. After the final buzzer, I'm officially giving up men, buying several vibrators, and joining a convent. Actually, I'm pretty sure those last two things are mutually exclusive, so ... Just the vibrators, then.
Julie Johnson
#62. There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.
Dean Ornish
#63. Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do.
Niki Lauda
#64. An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
Stephen Stills
#65. Several years ago, as I was transitioning from film finance to film production and writing again, someone asked me how long I would try to get back into filmmaking before I gave up? My response was "giving up" was not an option.
Gabriel Campisi
#66. People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.
Andrew Vachss
#67. Hadrian snorted at his misplaced humor. "Not giving up yet, Hauk. Besides, you know how much I love to live dangerously. Why else would I share a domicile with Jayne? Risking her wrath is what I do for fun." "You need to find a new hobby, my friend."
-Hadrian & Fain
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#68. Repentance is simply giving up to stop fighting against God and to stop attempting to gain your own salvation through your own works; to literally give up and fall upon Christ. That is salvation.
Paul Washer
#69. If you feel like giving up, give up on that feeling and give into the realization there are endless possibilities waiting to be discovered before you.
Tom Althouse
#70. The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.
Aristotle.
#71. I need us to be indestructible. I can't return to cold and alone. Things are complicated. No doubt. But we'll battle through this. We have to. Giving up is not an option.
"Me and you," I whisper.
Katie McGarry
#72. Nietzsche's ideas and plans: for example, the idea of giving up the whole wretched academic world to form a secular monastic community.
Karl Jaspers
#73. Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#74. We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics.
J. Willard Gibbs
#75. You don't mind giving up your freedom?"
Vivian tilted her head. "You always have to give up some freedom to live in any society.
Demitria Lunetta
#76. Resort to military force is a first sure sign that we are giving up the struggle for the democratic way of life, and that the Old World has conquered morally as well as geographically succeeding in imposing upon us its ideals and methods.
John Dewey
#77. We all smiled because it was the truth: Living did take a lot more guts than giving up.
Brendan Halpin
#78. Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself, to be at peace, to be happy and to be able to sleep at night. You don't forgive because you are weak but because you are strong enough to realize that only by giving up on resentment will you be happy.
Luminita D. Saviuc
#79. He wasn't a religious man but a vision of what Paradise might be came to him, a windowed room afloat on an endless sea, walls packed floor to ceiling with all the books ever written or dreamed of. It was nearly enough to make giving up the world bearable.
Michael Crummey
#80. I'm not giving up Neph," I said, returning to the previous conversation.
"Any fool can see that, darling." He looked at me through dark eyes. "You don't give up people, ever.
Anne Zoelle
#81. Surely the mindset of those who think they need to win, to dominate, to punish, to reign supreme must be terrible and far from free, and giving up this unachievable pursuit would be liberatory.
Rebecca Solnit
#82. Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had.
Tom Petty
#83. Physically, emotionally, and spiritually I gave the ropes control, and then I understood what he meant. By giving up control, I became free.
Olivia Cunning
#84. Only after giving up 'the truth' can we learn to speak our truth.
Terrence Real
#85. Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.
Aleksandar Hemon
#86. I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.
Micky Ward
#87. You will never know what you can accomplish until you really put in persistent effort and never giving up.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#88. Giving up doesn't make you a quiter, a loser or a failure.
It makes you wise enough to stop holding on to what refuses to be held.
Hence i say, letting go hurts,
but holding on to what is no longer there
hurts even more.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#89. First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides ... Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.
Gautama Buddha
#90. Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
Aimee Mullins
#91. Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.
Lee Westwood
#92. The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure.
Christian D. Larson
#93. Since when do you look at the side of wonder?"
"I'm trying very hard. It's irritating me, but I'm not giving up. I try to think of a wondrous thought every day when I wake, if you'd really like to know."
"Yes, it's very annoying, but slightly contagious.
Melina Marchetta
#94. I've had good times on drugs ... bad times on drugs ... But I've had good and bad relationships ... and I'm not giving up pussy.
Bill Hicks
#95. My brilliant psychiatrist Dr. K. had told me that the only way to move on from trauma is forgiveness, giving up the right to hit back harder than you were hit in the first place.
Darrell Hammond
#96. Forgiveness is giving up the hope of what happened to you from being different.
Tyler Perry
#97. Freedom is indivisible - there is no "s" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep "some freedoms" while giving up others.
Ronald Reagan
#98. I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life.
Leon Spinks
#99. The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
Terence McKenna
#100. The period of financial distress is a gradual decline after the peak of a speculative bubble that precedes the final and massive panic and crash, driven by the insiders having exited but the sucker outsiders hanging on hoping for a revivial, but finally giving up in the final collapse.
Charles P. Kindleberger
