
Top 83 Refuse To Give Up Quotes
#1. Some memories just stay. They just refuse to give up on staying. Maybe it is good that they stay. It helps us stay rooted. It helps us to know who we really are.
Aditi Bose
#2. I refuse to give up when things go wrong because there is always a sliver lining behind the cloud.
Millicent Ashby
#3. What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better.
David Bornstein
#4. Refuse to give up, your mistakes don't define you
They don't dictate where you're headed, they remind you
T.I. Harris
#5. Any noble cause will encounter its share of setbacks. The strength of that cause is measured in how the men who fight for it respond. We refuse to give up, which is why we will prevail eventually.
D.B. Jackson
#6. Success in life comes to those who simply refuse to give up; individuals with vision so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act as teachings
Silken Laumann
#7. Hauntingly active as they share space with the living, the dead refuse to give up their undead residency.
Pamela K. Kinney
#8. Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.
Sadie Robertson
#9. 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
#10. A perfect marriage is just two imperfect people who refuse to give up on each other.
Dave Willis
#11. When success is internalized, no situation, no matter how bad, can convince you that you will not be able to attain your goal. You become adamant and refuse to give up.
Archibald Marwizi
#12. I love the underdog stories. I love people who refuse to give up.
Phil Keoghan
#13. We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
Grant Morrison
#14. If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no
matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.
Brian Herbert
#15. I could no more pray the Our Father, I could no longer call myself a Christian, if I refuse to forgive. Humanly speaking, I cannot do it, but God will give us his strength!
Philip Yancey
#16. Integrity is built by defeating the temptation to be dishonest; humility grows when we refuse to be prideful; and endurance develops every time you reject the temptation to give up.
Rick Warren
#17. Some writers refuse to lay their heads peaceably on the pillow of literary history in order to give posterity good dreams.
review in London Review of Books, of the works of Knut Hamsun (26 nov 1998)
James Wood
#18. There will be many things bigger and stronger, so you cannot let the fear stop you, or you will never start. You take the things fear gives you and refuse to give the things it tries to take away.
Joseph R. Lallo
#19. I think I never thanked you for helping me.'
'You don't have to thank me.'
'Can I give you a kiss as gratitude?'
'How could I refuse?
Debra Strattford
#20. I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war.
Albert Einstein
#21. When kids know that you refuse to let them fail ... they don't give up as easy. So sometimes they don't have it inside, [but] they're like,'You know, I don't want to do this, but I know my mother's going to be mad.'That matters to kids, and it helps get them through.
Geoffrey Canada
#22. Why do the poor refuse to give an accurate picture of their suffering?
Karan Mahajan
#23. You are lovely, brilliant, witty ... the incredible words which would relieve her of any need to repay him or refuse his gifts; loveliness and wit were priced higher than any gift he offered, while if a girl were loved, even old women of hard experience would admit her right to take and never give.
Graham Greene
#24. We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. At this time to refuse or neglect to give coffee to their wives was a legitimate cause for divorce among the Turks." William H. Ukers (1873-1945).
Stewart Lee Allen
#26. You will do very well to refuse offices; for a man seldom fails to give offense in them. It ought to weary you simply to hear them mentioned.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#27. Give all to love: Obey thy heart; Friends, kindred, days, Estate, good fame, Plans, credit, and the Muse,- Nothing refuse.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28. For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.
Lucy Davis
#29. In life and in a boxing ring, the defeat is not declared when you fall down. It is declared only when you refuse to get up
Manoj Arora
#30. Compensation is counterintuitive: The more treasure you give away to those who serve well, the more treasure will return to you. But few people perceive this simple truth. Most try to keep as much as they can for themselves and give little away. That's why their purses refuse to fatten.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#31. Time and again, a student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worthwhile to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests, saying that if the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it.
Alma Gluck
#32. I'm an artist ... The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.
Nikki Grimes
#33. Sometimes we have to face things, face people, face situations in life that we don't like to deal with," he said. "It can feel like everybody is out to get you. That's when you have to refuse to succumb, make people realize you are a force - but you also have to give and take in these situations.
Duff McKagan
#34. Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. Okay," he said, planting his newly freed hand on the mattress. "I stopped. Now let me tell you what I think. I think you think that if you give in to what I want, and what I suspect you want, I'll make a killer and a whore out of you. You think I'll hurt you if you refuse.
Nenia Campbell
#36. Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.
Laurence Overmire
#37. I want the part of you that you refuse to give.
Ellen Hopkins
#38. What you love, you will love. What you undertake you will complete. You are a fulfiller of hope; you are to be relied on. But seventeen years give little armor against despair ... Consider, Arren. To refuse death is to refuse life.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#39. If you decide you need a secured card, use it to charge small items every month, then pay the balance off in full. If your credit score improves, and the bank doesn't offer to upgrade your card within 12 to 18 months, give them a call. If they refuse, try another lender.
Jean Chatzky
#40. Insomniacs tend to fall into two general categories - those who give up and those who don't. I don't. I refuse to admit defeat by turning on the light. I will not try to read or watch a movie, thank you. Productivity is a crutch of the weak.
Sloane Crosley
#41. If you'd called me an ox, I'd have said I was an ox; if you'd called me a horse, I'd have said I was a horse. If the reality is there and you refuse to accept the name men give it, you'll only lay yourself open to double harassment.
Zhuangzi
#42. I'm concerned about my daughter because she will not believe in Santa Claus. No matter what I say to her, she just doesn't buy it, and she's 2. I refuse to give it up. I say, 'There is a Santa Claus,' and she says, 'Okay, Mommy. In pretend world, right?' She really doesn't believe.
Salma Hayek
#43. Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
Ovid
#44. Money will always remain an effect and refuse to replace you as the cause. Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices. Money will not give you the unearned, neither in matter nor in spirit. Is this the root of your hatred of money?
Ayn Rand
#45. Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
Nicolaus Copernicus
#46. Refuse to be small no matter how many times people insist on squeezing you. The same people who carelessly call you "Hey" are the same people who will cheerfully call you "Hi" when you continue to drive your life positively!
Israelmore Ayivor
#47. Not everyone is comfortable with the kissing ritual. My husband is one of them. Her refuses to press lips with anyone except his wife, mother, and dog. If someone wanted to give him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, he would refuse until he had been formally introduced.
Erma Bombeck
#48. I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this year.
Kanye West
#49. [ ... ]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.
David Platt
#50. Do not give to persons able to work for a living," declared a critic of the traditional paternalistic charity in 1807. "Do not support widows who refuse to put out their children. Do not let the means of support be made easier to one who does not work than to those who do.
Gordon S. Wood
#51. So tired of Noam and Herod and Sir and Angra and all these arrogant, puppet-master men who hold all the strings and refuse to give them up.
Sara Raasch
#52. Ive tried and tried and now I give up. I refuse to be the perfect friend to people that cant treat me with the same respect.
Lovely Goyal
#53. To be always giving, is to encourage a forcible taking when you refuse to give.
Publilius Syrus
#54. We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.
Richard Machowicz
#55. Actually, we have no problems-we have opportunities for which we should give thanks ... An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one's own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.
Edgar Cayce
#56. I would give up, but that will teach my kids that it's okay to be a failure and I refuse to ruin their lives like that!
Mignon' Talise Padilla
#57. I can either give in to fear and give up - or refuse to let it touch me and go on.
Karen Marie Moning
#58. I give up. Stop speaking, responding, refuse food and
water. They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but
it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's
lost the will to live.
Suzanne Collins
#59. If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear the pain of loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Margaret Weis
#60. And yet, will we ever come to an end of discussion and talk if we think we must always reply to replies? For replies come from those who either cannot understand what is said to them, or are so stubborn and contentious that they refuse to give in even if they do understand.
Augustine Of Hippo
#61. The design is about expectations. Everybody wants something from beautiful people. From beautiful women, especially. But I think they're most stunning when they refuse to give anyone anything.
Susan Juby
#62. People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.
Brendan Francis Brown
#63. Are you jealous of the ocean's generosity?
Why would you refuse to give
this joy to anyone?
Fish don't hold the sacred liquid in cups!
They swim the huge fluid freedom.
Rumi
#64. Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.
Lord Chesterfield
#66. i don't take breaks. you're either with me or you lose me to someone better than you. i refuse to give you a pass to freely fuck someone else then return to me when you're tired of being fucked over..
R H Sin
#67. I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.
Melissa McCarthy
#68. I refuse to this day to do e-mail because everybody I know that does it, it takes another two or three hours a day. I don't want to give two or three more hours away.
Jeff Foxworthy
#69. Put a 'stop-loss' order on your worries. Decide just how much anxiety a thing may be worth- and refuse to give it any more.
Dale Carnegie
#70. I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
Bart Stupak
#71. I refuse to give readers an uplifting faux experience engineered to comfort them and perpetuate the sociopolitical and economic status quo."
"Who died and made you Bertolt Brecht?
Chuck Palahniuk
#72. Neither refuse to give help when it is needed, ... nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.
Lloyd Alexander
#73. If we refuse to accept knowledge because it frightens us, we will never grow. If we give in to fear, we will never outgrow hatred
Christina Engela
#74. Many people who give mechanically or refuse to give and share in their marriages and families may never have experienced what it means to possess themselves, their own sense of identity and self-worth.
Stephen R. Covey
#75. He's the Wizard because he's magic. He mysteriously passes through locked doors. He seems to read minds. He's able to refuse dessert. And he can give me a hot flash with the touch of a fingertip.
Janet Evanovich
#76. There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.
Eric Burdon
#77. Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.
Immaculee Ilibagiza
#78. I'm not all that brave, Andre. I'm afraid of everything, I just refuse to give into it.
Christine Feehan
#79. I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.
Diogenes
#80. I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.
Harold Ford Jr.
#81. Time I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
Christine Warren
#82. Don't always refuse to go shopping with your wife. Of course it's a nuisance, but sometimes she honestly wants your advice, and you ought to be pleased to give it.
Blanche Ebbutt
#83. Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.
Mark Twain
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