Top 68 Quotes About Ready To Give Up
#1. 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
#2. Jack, I know I'm not perfect, but I'm really hoping you're not ready to give up on me yet. I don't have gifts or love letters or anything like you had. But what I can give you is my word, my promise, my vow to you. Which I will back up with actions, by the way.
J. Sterling
#3. 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
#4. To live fully, one must be free, but to be free one must give up security. Therefore, to live one must be ready to die. How's that for a paradox?
Tom Robbins
#5. It surprised him how badly he didn't want anyone else in Hero's room. Even her family. She'd clung to him so ferociously, and he wasn't ready to give that up. So - this was new and dangerous emotional territory.
Kerrigan Byrne
#6. In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation and trivialization to feel engaged, connected, purposeful, ready to give, to engage, to care, to learn.
Rebecca Solnit
#7. 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
#8. I must be continually ready to give up the parts of my life that God wants to replace with trust in him, even if what I need to give up are my own expectations and continual need to be in the driver's seat of my life.
Kristen Strong
#9. He had seen so much of life, but even more of death. He had seen countless eras come and go and still he braved forward, forever alone. And here she was ready to give up after a few lousy years. She was a coward.
Michelle M. Pillow
#10. Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.
Louis Bayard
#11. It is about getting better every game. Work ethic was the first part. We were not ready to give up and the Slovaks did not give up also. That is what the Olympics are all about. We executed where we needed to execute. It was important to play the way we always play.
Jayna Hefford
#12. Attention is love, what we must give
children, mothers, fathers, pets,
our friends, the news, the woes of others.
What we want to change we curse and then
pick up a tool. Bless whatever you can
with eyes and hands and tongue. If you
can't bless it, get ready to make it new.
Marge Piercy
#13. I'm not ready to settle down with anyone. Especially not someone that I've only just met. I'd have to be stark, raving mad to give up my life. I don't know how I can trust you. I. Don't. Know. You.
Sofia Grey
#14. Who among us - if it means letting go of the insanity, the mystery, the totally useless beauty of the million once-possible New Yorks - is ready even now to give up hope? BOOK
Garth Risk Hallberg
#15. Southern states in the confederacy were not ready to give up their fight to secede or give up their way of life, which was made possible in large part through the blood, sweat and tears of African slaves.
Corrine Brown
#16. You should be ready to take advantage of all the opportunities that arise. Accept every invitation. Follow each whim. Some will work out, others won't. But don't give up.
Joanne Guidoccio
#17. This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder."
"I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you're talking about killing him."
"I meant it the other way."
"Oh.
Gary Paulsen
#18. The great point is to renounce your own wisdom by simplicity of walk, and to be ready to give up the favor, esteem, and approbation of every one, whenever the path in which God leads you passes that way.
Francois Fenelon
#19. We want something desperately and we try to force the universe to give it up before it is ready. We want everything now. That is the devouring self.
Ruben Papian
#20. The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.
Shannon L. Alder
#21. I don't have all the answers I need yet, and I'm not ready to give up until I completely understand the purpose I serve and what it is I'm supposed to do.
K. Weikel
#22. Books are the most wonderful friends in the world. When you meet them and pick them up, they are always ready to give you a few ideas. When you put them down, they never get mad; when you take them up again, they seem to enrich you all the more.
Fulton J. Sheen
#23. Let's get busy. Get up! Stop living an average life. Stop living in a rut. Get ready for a new way to walk and talk. Taller, louder, prouder and thoroughly convinced that you have enough hope in your life to give some away.
J. Loren Norris
#24. You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'.
It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.
U.G. Krishnamurti
#25. When people die,' she said softly, 'It doesn't necessarily mean you're ready to give them up.
C.A. Belmond
#26. Vaccines are little pieces of bacteria or viruses injected into the body to give the immune system an education. They work by ramping up your own defensive system so that you're ready to fight the bacteria or virus upon first contact, without becoming sick first.
Rene Fester Kratz
#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. When you want it the most, there's no easy way out.When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in doubt. Don't give up on your faith, love comes to those who believe it ... And that's the way it is.
Celine Dion
#29. The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. Because once you give your body to a guy, there's no taking it back. And once you've done that it opens up feelings, emotions and vulnerabilities you never knew you were capable of having. I'm not ready to give him my heart. What if he breaks it?
J. Sterling
#31. To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
Leonardo DiCaprio
#32. It is only when we are ready to give up on some things in our lives that we could receive new things.
Sunday Adelaja
#33. God will open up places of service for you as He sees you are ready. Meanwhile, study the Bible and give yourself a chance to grow.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#34. Someday," he whispered softly in my ear. "I don't want to hurt you. Not until you're ready for me ... But someday I'm going to own all of you, Marie. You're all mine, babe. Knew it the first time I saw you. Couldn't give you up if I tried.
Joanna Wylde
#35. To Be young is to be always ready to give up what we are in order to become what we must be.
To be young is never to accept the irreparable.
The Mother
#36. Nothing will be the same without him."
Micah nods slowly. "I know what you're saying. I guess I'm just wondering how we know when to give up and move on."
I shake my head. "Not yet. I'm not ready to quit fighting.
Paula Stokes
#37. Singing is the love of my life, but I was ready to give it all up because I couldn't handle people talking about how fat I was.
Stevie Nicks
#38. Any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves.
Catharine Beecher
#39. We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.
Saddam Hussein
#40. ...But he had great faith in the idea that if you are ready to give up everything to the solution of any problem, you will always find an answer.
David Howarth
#41. You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.
Bede Griffiths
#42. Get all you can without hunting your soul, your body, or your neighbor. Save all you can, cutting off every needless expense. Give all you can. Be glad to give, and ready to distribute; laying up in store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come, that you may attain eternal life.
John Wesley
#43. Were they ready to give up everything for their country? I felt ready to give up everything, not really for my country, but in general.
Michel Houellebecq
#45. You can't keep her.
I know that. But I'm not ready to give her up just yet.
Simone Elkeles
#46. I went home and tried to sleep, but couldn't, so I stared up at the moon, watching how it's trailing edge faded into darkness, so close to being full, but not quite there. A pregnant moon, Grandma called it. Full almost to bursting, and ready to give birth to something unthinkable.
Neal Shusterman
#47. God is always ready and willing to answer all our crazy questions and He's willing to give us a clear understanding of His nature and His unconditional love.It's up to us to seek and reach more for Him.
Euginia Herlihy
#48. If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.
Kevin Hart
#49. When you think what happened to you is the end of the world, just hold your head up and look around you, you will see that the world is there, ready to give you new things!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. So I will wait, because I would rather wait for you than waste my time with someone who isn't you. And I will focus on the long game. As they say in baseball, losing game one and even game two is no reason to give up on the whole series. When you're ready, if you're ever ready, give me the word.
Gabrielle Zevin
#52. Writing is a tough business, but never forget the reason why you write. It's for the love of story telling. Fame and fortune may elude you, but that's no reason to give up. Remember, there's always someone ready to listen to a good story.
Robert Bartram
#53. Your team has to understand that coming into the ABA, you have to have your investments right and sponsorships and people ready to give you money so they can back you up.
Tim Hardaway
#54. Abundance is a direct reflection of your preparation to live abundantly. People who are ready for abundance keep their heads up, their eyes open and give thanks for everything they get.
Iyanla Vanzant
#55. Mudit was smoking for me I wasn't ready to give up.
Arjun was the Alcohol Anonymous, I wasn't even ready to
enroll; someone had to make me forcefully join it
Dixy Gandhi
#56. Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.
John Flanagan
#57. Remember, ask and you shall receive. If you ask a terrible question, you'll get a terrible answer. Your mental computer is ever ready to serve you, and whatever question you give it, it will surely come up with an answer.
Tony Robbins
#58. Like that box held the last little piece of what was normal, and I wasn't ready to give it up just yet.
Sarah Dessen
#59. It's funny how one thing can make you realize something like that. One can be ready to give up the children one always wanted, one can be ready to withstand remarks about one's past, or one's clothes, but then - a tiny remark and the soul deflates and says: Oh. I
Elizabeth Strout
#60. I've always looked at America like a foster mother doing it only for the check. At any minute, I just knew she'd be ready to give up on me.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#61. You were going to travel for love, without shoes, or cloak, or common sense. This is one of the things a woman can do when her lover leaves her. It's hard on the feet perhaps, but staying at home is hard on the heart, and you weren't quite ready to give up on him yet.
Kelly Link
#62. How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?
Gary Smalley
#63. My anger was an exciting feeling, and I didn't give it up easily. I was ready to fight.
Daniel Keyes
#64. A man's moral worth is established only at the point where he is ready to give up his life in defense of his convictions.
Henning Von Tresckow
#66. You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.
Alessandro Volta
#67. The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'
Rick Perlstein
#68. For those who are ready the door to the deathless state is open. If you have ears give up the conditions that bind you and enter in.
Gautama Buddha