Giving Up Quotes

I was never that much a focus of interest in my career. I'm aware of that now, which doesn't give me a lot of pleasure.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose.

Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... in order to create this common ground.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don't give up. If you feel bad, send yourself a card. You must be worth it.

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.”

If you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Trying harder doesn’t always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

The single biggest mistake, I think, is giving up too soon.

Men don't and can't live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don't live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.

If we give up the notion that everybody’s life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody’s life is perfect.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

Give up all hope of peace so long as your mother-in-law is alive.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

Say a miracle happened and you could pull stars from the sky. Even if that happened there's no way I would give up a game for you.

The boys think they can all be athletes, and the girls think they can all be singers. That's the way to fame and success. ...as a group blacks must give up their illusions.

That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

The Product of Freedom and Security is a constant (F X S = k). Giving up freedom for security is beginning to look naive.

France on its own cannot impose its point of view. But neither should it give up on its demands. With a clear vote for change France will be in a strong position.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

If you give up, it's over. But if you don't give up, the day will come when you'll be glad you didn't give up.

Don't see haters as a reason to give up; instead see them as a sign that you are starting to become successful.

Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.

Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

It's not just how hard you try, it's how well you will succeed from trying hard.

The advice I give to every filmmaker is you have to be tenacious. You can't give up.

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.

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

The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up.

We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

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.