Quotes About Giving Up Everything

#1. I will not learn it until I realize that "God is love," and to claim and receive it as an indwelling power for self-sacrifice. I will not love until I begin to see that my glory, my blessedness, is to be like God and like Christ, in giving up everything in myself for my fellow-men.

Andrew Murray

#2. 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

#3. You can still be someone new without giving up everything you cared about before.

Ais

#4. I may be the one leaving, but you're the one giving up everything and walking away.

Loni Flowers

#5. 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

#6. We must never make our parents sad, even if this means giving up everything that makes us happy..

Paulo Coelho

#7. The decision to leave [the church] is you're giving up everything you've worked for your whole life. I feel that people need to understand this has been my whole life. As time goes on, you start to lose touch with the real world. The mindset becomes us against them.

Leah Remini

#8. Sometime bravery involves giving up everything you have ever known ... but sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting you're teeth through the pain, the slow walk towards a better life.

Veronica Roth

#9. There is nothing better than giving up everything and stepping into a passionate love relationship with God, the God of the universe who made galaxies, leaves, laughter, and me and you.

Francis Chan

#10. There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#11. 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

#12. If you're not willing to give up everything for Christ, are you willing to be made willing?

F.B. Meyer

#13. Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

Patti LaBelle

#14. Consecration is only possible when we give up our will about EVERYTHING.

F.B. Meyer

#15. 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

#16. The problem with hoarding is you end up living off your reserves. Eventually you will become stale. If you give away everything you have, you are left with nothing. This forces you to look, to be aware, to replenish. Somehow the more you give away the more comes back to you.

Paul Arden

#17. And I wasn't going to give up just because they insisted there was no point in trying. Even if it meant marching straight up to Cronus and giving him everything, I would really do it if it meant Henry might live.

Aimee Carter

#18. Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything - not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught - all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.

Jim Morrison

#19. 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

#20. Finding something important in life does not mean that you must give up everything else.

Paulo Coelho

#21. The real test on the path of love is are you willing to give up everything for your love?

Frederick Lenz

#22. I work with people who come up with an idea and people throw money at it. They say, "Geeze, can I give you some money? Can I get a piece of that?" So, if your concept is good everything else becomes much easier. If your concept is unclear, then everything else is harder

Brian Tracy

#23. My wife can't figure out what to buy me. What do you give a man who's had everything up to here?

Milton Berle

#24. Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or not. Never, never give up, and the world will reward you beyond your wildest dreams.

Alex Haley

#25. There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up.

Albert Camus

#26. Then not everything is gonna be the way you think it oughta be. It seems like everytime I try to make it right, it all comes down on me. Please say honestly you won't give up on me, and I shall believe.

Sheryl Crow

#27. [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

#28. It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear.

Emma Watson

#29. If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

Robert Reich

#30. Why would I give up so much to just be another singer or another person doing what he loves? I'm out here doing everything to the best of my capability to be the best.

Justin Bieber

#31. Greed is a way of avoiding making choices: if I have everything I don't have to choose what I want. And choosing what I want means giving up some pleasures for other pleasures.

Adam Phillips

#32. I shaved a lot off of a lot that I saw in that I like to be less is more and make everything count and not give anyone anything extra. I was what you see is what you got. It was organic. I came up with the persona. The persona is me, coupled together with a lot of my interests.

Bill Goldberg

#33. I can't. I can't force them to give up everything when I can prevent it by giving up something.

Tenille Berezay

#34. We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself.

Marcus Garvey

#35. When everything seems worse, impossible to achieve, thinking about giving up, quitting? Remember why started first? Trust yourself, tap yourself and say if you cannot make it, no one is going to. Look back, the whole team believes in you, go for it and be a CHAMPION.

Vivek Thangaswamy

#36. Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Etty Hillesum

#37. Fear isn't the answer. If we're afraid of everything, then we're afraid to do anything, and that means we're giving up our freedom.

Matthew Mather

#38. In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and it's just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

Miranda Richardson

#39. That down feeling, quitting, was far worse than suffering it out to the end, because that decision to quit haunts you and bleeds over into your outlook on everything else, just as not quitting buoys you for all else.

Diana Nyad

#40. If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

Warren G. Bennis

#41. The demands of following Christ will cost you everything. But you gain far more than you give up. You give up dirt for diamonds.

Steve Lawson

#42. Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.

Rafe Esquith

#43. 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

#44. The lazy one says "Everything has been said and done, I have nothing to add.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#45. We all are now very aware of what a connected world we live in - connected to each other and to the earth that gives us everything we have. We need all countries and companies to step up and play their part - setting strong goals, having clear plans, and openly demonstrating progress.

Richard Branson

#46. To get rid of villains and knaves, it is necessary to give them a way out. If you don't give them any leeway at all, they will be like trapped rats. If every way out is closed to them, they will chew up everything good.

Zicheng Hong

#47. I did everything young. I was always in a hurry to do everything. I had kids young and I worked young and I didn't have time to go back to school because I wasn't willing to give up anything that I had.

Stephanie Seymour

#48. A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.

Elsa Maxwell

#49. 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

#50. And I thought well, if Tina Turner can go up there and she can give everything for 500 people, no matter how sick I am, I can make it happen too.

Bryan Adams

#51. I feel very privileged to get to read and write and not to have to do things that I don't like, and I don't want to give that up. Everything else is just a bonus and often a distraction from the writing, reading, and traveling that gives me the most pleasure.

Pankaj Mishra

#52. Selfless giving does not imply giving everything up - it's simply having a good time.

Frederick Lenz

#53. I want everything or nothing. A life for a life, taking one and giving up another without hesitation and beyond recall. Or else better have nothing!

Ivan Turgenev

#54. Dear heart, I promissed you i'd take it slow. Dear love, I know I swore on everything I own. But I can resist ... it's just one kiss.

Keri Hilson

#55. Fight. Fight through everything. Don't leave the house angry or go to bed mad. Fight until it's settled. The end of fighting is the beginning of giving up.

Penelope Douglas

#56. I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must writer and write and write, even if everybody in the world advises you against it, even if nobody believes in you.

Henry Miller

#57. 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

#58. Never give up on anything you haven't done absolutely everything to save. Even if what you're saving, kills you.

Pleasefindthis

#59. There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all feats - and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It's the intense effort, the giving of everything you've got. It's really a very pleasant sensation.

Edmund Hillary

#60. When the ancient Masters said, "If you want to be given everything, give everything up," they weren't using empty phrases. Only in being lived by the Tao can you be truly yourself.

Laozi

#61. If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#62. Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.

Agyness Deyn

#63. If you really want everything, then give up everything.

Laozi

#64. Enduring habits I hate ... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#65. Because we have suffered, and we are not afraid to suffer in order to survive, we are ready to give up everything - even our lives - in our struggle for justice.

Cesar Chavez

#66. That feeling terrified me because now I had someone else in my life that I'd give up everything for. I'd already given so much. What would be left, if I kept giving pieces of myself away?

Aileen Erin

#67. If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.

Laozi

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

Swami Vivekananda

#73. It seems to me that everything is on its way to becoming something else, giving itself up in the service of another. In

Ayana Mathis

#74. I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.

Bart Cummings

#75. I loved my family so much when I was growing up, my parents, my sister. I wanted to be able to give them everything they ever dreamed of.

Andrew Dice Clay

#76. I cry even harder, thinking of how it could have been, of how I thought it would be. For the first time, I want to give up, to die, because suddenly everything is too much and there is no solution in sight.

B.A. Paris

#77. I put everything in God's hands, asking him to give me strength and understanding. I asked him to help me to be strong for my family and that he would continue to take care of us. One day, shortly after that, I woke up really inspired.

Aaron Watson

#78. Give 100 percent to everything you do and never give up.

Mark Mills

#79. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving up your opinion at the bidding of such and such a person.

Vincent Van Gogh

#80. That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that's all they're gonna keep wanting from you.

Mary J. Blige

#81. You can't type what a lesbian is. We're anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us.

Amanda Bearse

#82. Don't become cynical. Don't give up hope. Don't believe that everything is judged only by expediency. There is idealism in this world. There is human brotherhood.

Golda Meir

#83. A true champion is someone who wants to make a difference, who never gives up, and who gives everything she has no matter what the circumstances are. A true champion works hard and never loses sight of her dreams.

Dot Richardson

#84. We want everything God has to offer without giving anything up.

Mark Batterson

#85. Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.

Kevin Drum

#86. Eventually, time takes care of everything. The trouble with procrastination is that people give up on it too soon.

Robert Breault

#87. No, I'm not ever letting you go." His words were raw with emotion. "I'll let you leave here right now, but I'm not giving up on you. I'll pursue you like I've never pursued anything in my life. I'll fight until you have no choice but to believe that I love you with everything I am.

Laurelin Paige

#88. 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

#89. Won't go wrong." Hana stands up and stares at me for a moment. "I promise," she says slowly, giving each word weight, "that everything will go perfectly.

Lauren Oliver

#90. To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

Louis Zamperini

#91. Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.

John C. Maxwell

#92. I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

Khaled Hosseini