Giving Up Quotes

If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

Acting isn't something you do. Instead of doing it, it occurs. If you're going to start with logic, you might as well give up. You can have conscious preparation, but you have unconscious results.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

If you absolutely love it more than anything in the world, don't give up. You gotta keep working hard because it's a lot tougher than it looks.

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

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

If you want to travel on the airline system, you give up your privacy. If you want your privacy, don't fly. Flying is voluntary.

To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

In exchange for power, influence, command and a place in history, a president gives up the bulk of his privacy.

I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

If I have to give up good fashion for a relationship, I don't want a relationship.

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

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.

The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

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.

Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?

Anything that says 'healthy' I say away from... Giving up butter, for instance, means that in about two years you will be covered in dandruff.

My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.

The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!

There is no defeat except for those who give up.

Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.

Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons.

Too stupid to learn and too stupid to give up.

Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.

You give up a lot to be in politics. And if you're not there to change the world I don't know what you're there for. I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.

Never give up because, if an opportunity arises, you have to be ready to take it.

Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.

A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist

You can't quit or give up before you get it!

Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.

I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

Never ever ever give up. You can change and move around but NEVER ever give up

I'm here to tell you that a champion is someone who has fallen off the horse a dozen times and gotten back on the horse a dozen times. Successful people never give up.

I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

For emotional reasons, connected with my affection for my parents, I was a reluctant atheist, but giving up religion brought peace of mind because intellectual conflict was resolved.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

I just want to inspire all those people who gave up and said 'I quit,' Never give up!

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

[Never give up hope. Never give in to pessimism. Never despair.] No horse named Morbid ever won a race!