Giving Up Quotes

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up.

A winner is just someone who doesn't give up when they lose.

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.

I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

My fastest time in high school was a 4:29 mile. I think cross-country has something to do with my longevity in my business. When you're in an eight-mile race, you never give up.

I thought you had to give up a lot for art, and you did. It required complete concentration. It also required that whatever money you had had to be put into art materials.

I never believed I wouldn't make it - and perhaps that's why I've always found work. I've always stuck at everything I've ever done. I absolutely won't give up.

Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

I'm going to give up hits, so I'm going to need to get some ground balls, double plays and stuff like that. That's just kind of my game.

You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.

Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.

Love me, please, I love you; I can bear to be your friend. So ask of me anything ... I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

I'd give up golf if I didn't have so many sweaters.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

I thought I might have to give up art, but I couldn't think of anything else to do.

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

Im very clear that everyone in the world loves me. I just dont expect them to realize it yet.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

I will never be able to create a budget from scratch with the amount of time that I have, but my instructions remain the same: Give me a budget that has no new revenue.

Don't give up on the impossible before you try it.

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

Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.

I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

Let us not give up. Let us be true to our covenants. Let us never lose sight of our Advocate and Redeemer as we walk toward Him, one imperfect step after another.

Failure isn't failing at the project at hand. Failure is giving up on yourself.

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

I am not a tentative person. Whatever I do, I give up my whole self to it.

By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes.

We can never give up the belief that the good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.

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.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.

He must be the most singlehanded devotee cricket has ever seen. Cricket has taken up so much of his life that at times you would wonder what is he going to do once he gives up the game.