Quotes About Life Giving Up

#1. Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.
He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I'll remember how he died.
Fairy tale? No. But I'm not giving up on a better ending.

Angie Thomas

#2. Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

Peter McWilliams

#3. Just... isn't giving up allowed sometimes? Isn't it okay to say, 'This really hurts, so I'm going to stop trying'?"
"It sets a dangerous precedent."
"For avoiding pain?"
"For avoiding life.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant.

Ted Cruz

#5. Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it.

Zig Ziglar

#6. That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.

Kiera Cass

#7. I often long to ... give up my life to love of my neighbour. This is really a temptation.

Bertrand Russell

#8. The number one skill in life is not giving up.

Bryant McGill

#9. 'Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.

Thalia

#10. Don't let your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up; don't let your mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right track, the rest will follow.

Roy Bennett

#11. Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. I am so grateful that I have my family and friends on this journey. They are my blessings! I need them; and just the same, I know they need me too. That is why I have never thought of giving up.

Kcat Yarza

#13. You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.

Leonard Jacobson

#14. 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

#15. Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than himself, to ideas which are larger than his individual life, the idea of his country, of humanity, of God.

Rabindranath Tagore

#16. The only chance of life lies in giving up all hope of it.

Sun Tzu

#17. There is no failure in the spiritual life, as long as we do not give up the fight.

Swami Prabhavananda

#18. The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

Billy Joel

#19. Don't you dare give up on me.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#20. If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.

Cesar Chavez

#21. Life lesson that sucks? Giving advice is way easier than living your own life. Life lesson that sucks worse? Realizing this after you've severely fucked up.

Kristen Callihan

#22. When life beats you down, NEVER give up.

Jared Padalecki

#23. 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

#24. Knowing that a paradox is required for life as we know it to exist allows me to give up trying constantly to understand it and instead just feel it and enjoy it.

Richard Brancatisano

#25. The green economy should not just be about reclaiming throw-away stuff. It should be about reclaiming thrown-away communities. It should not just be about recycling things to give them a second life. We should also be gathering up people and giving them a second chance.

Van Jones

#26. reason for giving up an itinerant life

Tom Clavin

#27. A disciple said to him, "I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up?" The Master calmly replied, "One's beliefs about God.

Anthony De Mello

#28. For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.

Michelle Pfeiffer

#29. I love my life, I wouldn't give it up for the world.

Britney Spears

#30. Have faith in yourself.
Think yes not no.
Live life to the full.
Never give up.

Richard Branson

#31. Do I like to write? Why? About what? Will I give up and say, "Living and feeding a man's insatiable guts and begetting children occupies my whole life. Don't have time to write"?

Sylvia Plath

#32. Don't give up your life because balance is important, but when you're young you have energy, use it!

Dana Bash

#33. Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like, what's the difference?

Mitch Albom

#34. Pain is temporary, giving up forever

Jay Embrechts

#35. 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

#36. Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow,

Caroline Myss

#37. You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan; where do you want to put your efforts? I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

Laura Schlessinger

#38. You cannot compare your athletic achievement to the importance of children and giving them a safe environment in which to grow up and enjoy life.

Steffi Graf

#39. The only real failure in life is giving up. On looking back let it stand to our credit in life's balance sheet that at least we tried, and tried hard.

A.G. Street

#40. My father was an old - fashioned bloke, and he actually told me one day, "I'm not your friend, I'm your father. My job is to bring you up, give you values for life and to ensure that you carry those values through."

Warren Mundine

#41. Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

Sri Chinmoy

#42. He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it.

Bruce Lee

#43. 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

#44. [I am] saddened, saddened, that this president [Bush] failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to go to war. Saddened that we have to give up one life because this president couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country.

Tom Daschle

#45. Even if I have to face death a thousand times for the sake of my Motherland, I shall not be sorry. Oh, Lord! Grant me a hundred births inIndia. But grant me this, too, that each time I may give up my life in the service of the Motherland.

Ram Prasad Bismil

#46. The past believed in dates. And everyone's life consisted of dates, giving life a rhythm and sense of gradation, as if from the eminence of a date one could look back and down, and see the past itself. A clear, comprehensible past, divided up into squares of events, lines of paths taken.

Andrey Kurkov

#47. I want to give up every single day of my life, but I can't. I'm obsessed.

Ruba Nadda

#48. If we could throw away the hate and make love last another day, don't give up just for today, life would be so simple

Demi Lovato

#49. Our life is determined for us
and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

George Eliot

#50. No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there's no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either.

Jaejoong

#51. 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

#52. The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man.

Confucius

#53. Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, "You've been messing around now. You're going to have to stop this, stop that, but I'll give you another chance." And you wonder why you're given another chance. It must be for something; it must be to celebrate life.

Martin Scorsese

#54. So many people die though they live, and it is not as if they don't have life; they only refuse to keep breathing!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#55. There is no easy way out of our circumstances...Sometimes you stick it out even when you want to give up because you know that on the other side is either a better situation or a better you." -Watercrossing (Phantom Island Book 3)

Krissi Dallas

#56. Giving up is not an option. It is the biggest mistake one can make and there's nothing to be learnt from it

Lyrikal

#57. Life is just one big fight, and giving up puts us nowhere near of winning that fight

Christy Salomein

#58. We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.

Elizabeth May

#59. You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.

Daisaku Ikeda

#60. 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

#61. If you believe in something, then you shouldn't give up on it.

Harry Styles

#62. Don't give - give up!

Ian Gardner

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

Dane Cook

#64. The key to anything in boxing and life is sticking to it. Never give up.

John Molina Jr.

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

A.J. Muste

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

Nikita Lynnette Nichols

#67. 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

#68. 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

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

Ann Cotton

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

Dwyane Wade

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

Leon Brown

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!

Susan B. Anthony

#77. The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

Timothy Keller

#78. The point is that we have no control. The point is that there are no guarantees, that we never know what's going to happen in life, but we can't give up. The point is that, fallible as we all are, we have to keep trying, we have to keep reaching out to others.

Joy Fielding

#79. Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.

Karen Swallow Prior

#80. The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.

Marianne Williamson

#81. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

Viola Davis

#82. We try so hard to hold onto our stuff. We call it our treasure and expect to feel joy. But in God's economy if we want to gain, we must give up. For joy won't ever be found in collecting treasures. Joy radiates in our life only when we share our treasures.

Lysa TerKeurst

#83. Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

Yoko Ono

#84. Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity.

Albert Einstein

#85. I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.

Gwethalyn Graham

#86. Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet? I doubt it.

Robert Breault

#87. People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this down. And you and I, let's go and see if we can't master this thing, a few steps at a time without giving up your day job, without having to give up your whole life.

Tony Robbins

#88. You always have to give back to the fans. I remember being a fan of television and film when I was growing up and if I would've had the opportunity to meet somebody that I watched on television, it would've made my day, it would've made my life.

Jon Huertas

#89. 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

#90. Whatever you do in life, don't give up on your own dreams.

Nicole Kidman

#91. The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.

Olympia Brown

#92. She wished she had a set of greeting cards at the ready, but Hallmark probably didn't make any that said Thank you for giving up your life so that me and my friends could escape! It was SO appreciated. XOXO!

Gina Damico

#93. Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.

Mr. Lee

#94. Men are just as willing as women to marry up, and life is now giving them the opportunity ... So, women, own up to your accomplishments, buy him a drink, and tell him what you really do.

Liza Mundy

#95. Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.

Thomas Friedman

#96. The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles ... these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.

M. Scott Peck

#97. Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.

Phillips Brooks

#98. God, the hardest thing he'd ever done in his life was giving up what he wanted so that the woman he
loved could get what she needed.

Bella Andre

#99. The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

Sophie Kinsella

#100. A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan.

Mahatma Gandhi