Quotes About To Give Up

#1. As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.

Cassandra Clare

#2. Things change when someone special comes into your life. Both sides have to give up things. The one thing you don't give up in a good relationship is you
whatever makes you most you. - Jim Olsten (Jane's Grandpa)

Elizabeth Chandler

#3. Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.

Francis Xavier

#4. Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify it as work. I know a lot of people who are like, 'Man, acting's so much work.' And I'm like, 'No, it's not. I'm having fun.' And I want to keep doing that. I don't ever want to give up acting.

Billy Unger

#5. We must be unafraid to be utterly honest, to honor our gut feelings, and to say and do the unpopular when necessary. We have to give up our addiction to other people's opinions and surrender to the freedom of acting with strength and courage.

Suzanne Falter-Barns

#6. Maybe you're not willing to give up a lover who's colder than you are.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#7. Nina, people love to give up authority to men in nice clothes.

Leigh Bardugo

#8. 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

#9. I look around at all the girl singers, and I think they're all my children ... and they're all going to do this ... And, yes, maybe I inspired them because I did get through a lot, and I did have the same problems that they're going to have. You do have to give up a lot for it.

Stevie Nicks

#10. I didn't ask you to give up anything for me," she told him, "but I would have given up everything for you." The war is over, and I have lost. War. Ha! As if she could have fought a dead woman. The battle had been over before it began. "Until the end of forever, Layel." -DELILAH

Gena Showalter

#11. You propose to give up everything to God; be sure, then, to include yourself among the things to be given up. - ST. BENEDICT.

Various

#12. The world I grew up in is gone, too," I said quietly. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to give up on it. Because if you give up - then what is there left to live for?

Danielle Paige

#13. Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration.

Abraham Lincoln

#14. Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness, which will really cover you.

Johnny Hunt

#15. What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing to give up whatever they may have come with. So it's still quite a stretch for African Americans, yeah.

Michael Emerson

#16. Were talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

Joe Hill

#17. I'm never going to give in. I'm never going to give up, and I will fight back with every breath I have.
- Dionne Warner, seven-time cancer survivor and subject of Never Leave Your Wingman

Deana J. Driver

#18. 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

#19. It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

Lucian Freud

#20. Here, I'll show you how to use it. Let me see your foot."
"That's a pretty intimate demand in the angel world. It usually takes dinner, some wine, and sparkling conversation for me to give up my feet.

Susan Ee

#21. We may repeatedly try to get our need for sex or our need for communication met by our partner. If our attempts are met with rejection over and over again, we may eventually stop asking. We tend to give up rather than keep setting ourselves up for regular rejection.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#22. When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.

W. Edwards Deming

#23. I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love.

Hans Rosling

#24. I believe it's fine to give up books even after a page; there's so much to read in the world that will delight you, so why should you work against the grain?

Hilary Mantel

#25. Whoever you choose to be with will feel like the luckiest man in the world, not a guy who had to give up something to be with you.

Jolene Perry

#26. 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

#27. I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr's book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.' After I read that book, I didn't touch a fag again.

Mahesh Babu

#28. I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Louis Zamperini

#29. I don't think these men know that it's illegal,"she said. "They're very liberal and they have daughters and I think we should talk to them."The gruff-voiced woman barked back, "Don't be a naive little girl. People who have power don't like to give up that power.

Lynn Povich

#30. Now is not time to give up. Tomorrow will be different. Resurrect the strenght in the golden dreams that has brought you thus far. Every misery have its limit.

Darmie Orem

#31. Life is like a basketball game, you can shoot but miss. sometimes you even lose a game. There is always a next tournament, but never a time to give up.

David Dunham

#32. 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

#33. The only sure way to fail forever is to give up.

Gena Showalter

#34. A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.

Dave Willis

#35. Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

Kathryn Davis

#36. I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to give up crisps, or make my boobs shrink for that matter. Alas, I will never fit a size zero.

Marina And The Diamonds

#37. Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up.

Debasish Mridha

#38. We will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things.

John Desmond Bernal

#39. You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

Toni Morrison

#40. [Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.

Warren Farrell

#41. They're [sportsmen] willing to give up a lot of other things that perhaps we all enjoy doing: eating and drinking and playing or whatever. They give up an awful lot to perform at the highest level.

Jill Douglas

#42. You've got to give up who you are now for who you want to be in the future.

Jeremy Stephens

#43. To gain something, be ready to give up something.

Debasish Mridha

#44. When times change, as they inevitably do, one finds it impossible to give up on one's faith; in fact, one clings to it with renewed vigour. Difficult times make men cling to their faith even more strongly.

Amish Tripathi

#45. To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

Paul Twitchell

#46. 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

#47. Only a woman who had killed a man in battle was allowed to give up her virginity.

Stieg Larsson

#48. We, the privileged majority, talk about equality until it comes to our family having to give up something

Brenda Vicars

#49. When are you going to give up and accept the inevitable? Automation and microchips are here to stay.

J. A. Jance

#50. Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

Robertson Davies

#51. To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.

Chris Prentiss

#52. History never seems to teach us any lessons. But that is no reason to give up.

Paul Rusesabagina

#53. Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#54. Pretty stupid," I called after his retreating form. "To give up before all possible solutions have been tried.

Maria V. Snyder

#55. What are you waiting for in order to give up?

Emile M. Cioran

#56. The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.

Danny McBride

#57. I don't think you ever stopped Bobby Orr. You contained Bobby Orr, but you never stopped him. When we played the Bruins and Bobby had to give up the puck, it was a good play.

Larry Robinson

#58. So if you feel resistance about executing a certain ending, figure out what two or more desires are in conflict, admit to yourself that you can have only one, and then ask yourself this question: Which one am I willing to give up to have the other one?

Henry Cloud

#59. Consider yourself warned, Frankie. Something about these mountains convinces previously sane women to give up Starbucks for saddle sores.

Roxanne Snopek

#60. Just because fate had thrown another obstacle in my way didn't mean I had to give up my dreams.

Jodi Picoult

#61. I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned ... it might be better to give up television.

Michael Ramsey

#62. 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

#63. RBG's main concession to hitting her late seventies was to give up waterskiing.

Irin Carmon

#64. I have always felt doubtful about those people who try to get one to give up one's own bunkum and accept their debunkum instead.

Nanamoli Thera

#65. If you are going to be successful, you need to give up the phrase, "I can't" & all of its cousins, such as "I wish I were able to.

Jack Canfield

#66. It is worth it to give up all that you now are to be all that you could become.

Robert Cheeke

#67. If women decide that their mission, their political career, balances out what they have to give up, they can be and are equally successful as men.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#68. If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Clement Freud

#69. To give up faith in Christ is to give up faith in humanity; to believe in Christ is to believe in the redemption and final glorification of men; and this faith is the best inspiration to a holy and useful life for the good of our race of the glory of God.

Akinwumi Jarule

#70. Just because you've come to a dead end, it's not time to give up. Find a different route and keep pressing forward.

Joel Osteen

#71. When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

Ralph Marston

#72. 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

#73. Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.

Sadie Robertson

#74. Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones.

Ruth Hurmence Green

#75. I decided to give up meaningless sex, but then I remembered that everything is meaningless.

Oli Anderson

#76. Man will never be entirely willing to give up this world for the next nor the next world for this.

William Ralph Inge

#77. When I need my wife or when I need companionship or someone to talk to, I need it, like, now. So my wife will have to give up whatever she's doing at that moment to tend to my needs. And, in the same way, I would tend to hers. That's not such an easy thing to do.

Neil Diamond

#78. My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

Sister Souljah

#79. There's always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won't give up on love.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#80. So while I still hate to readjust my thinking, still hate to give up old ways of perceiving and conceptualizing, yet at some deeper level I have, to a considerable degree, come to realize that these painful reorganizations are what is known as learning,

Carl R. Rogers

#81. Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

Chris Murray

#82. It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

Mark Twain

#83. Before any outcome was made public, the radicals had worked themselves into "a fury of rage," certain that the president "was about to give up the political fruits which had been already gathered

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#84. Perfect, that's our plan then. But you'll have to give up being a priest first. I wouldn't want to just sit around whispering and sipping hot chocolate.

Ted Dekker

#85. What you're doing is wrong," he said. "I mean evil. To give up happiness like this is like throwing jewels into the ocean. It's far worse than any sin.

Ken Follett

#86. Sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Irvin D. Yalom

#87. Remember, there's sacrifice involved in any kind of life. Even the man who chooses the safe way has to give up the thrill of combat. The point is that once you know what you want, you must be prepared to sacrifice everything to get it.

John Allyn

#88. I love my life because a part of me has learned how to give up hope, and that, I suspect, is a dangerous lesson to unlearn.

Joel Derfner

#89. I am way too stubborn to give up, give in on my dreams

Temitope Owosela

#90. I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

W.C. Fields

#91. Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist.

Michael Bolton

#92. You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

Vince Lombardi

#93. Sometimes it's nice to be sick, to give up trying to function, to crawl into bed and be cared for a little.

Laurel Snyder

#94. Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation.

Jack Nicklaus

#95. The pathway to peace is an in describable journey of facing ones darkness, to find ones light. If they told you it's easier to give up, you met a fool; if they told you; it's easier to grow, you met the wise.

Nikki Rowe

#96. When we're tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives.

Brad Wilcox

#97. Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years ... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.

Franjo Tudjman

#98. I believe one of the most sacrificial acts of love adoptive parents can do is to give up their preconceptions and agendas about what their child's views "should" be and be open to hear the conflicting emotions and thoughts their child often experiences.

Sherrie Eldridge

#99. I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.

Ron Paul

#100. I hadn't slept with anyone in two years. Frankly, it was unnatural. The way I reacted to Will made me think that I really needed to give up the saint act,

Renee Carlino