Giving Up Quotes

Not doing is not about immobility or giving up in despair. It is first and foremost about being able to be with, to accept fully, what is in this moment.

The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.

If we can give up attachment to our roles as helpers, then maybe our clients can give up attachment to their roles as patients

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

Some governments are prepared to give up elements of sovereignty to address the threat of global climate change.

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

I couldn't concentrate on music. So I made the choice to give up my career as a musician in the frontline to deal with the business.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over his life.

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

When we give up on our dreams, we die while still alive.

I have a personal belief that you never have to give up liberty for security. You can still provide security without sacrificing our Bill of Rights.

One thing I won't do: I won't give up on love.

When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.

There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.

You give up your future, lose your dreams, are stained with despair . . . Yet at the same time you shake off your past, fight reality, and never lose your nobility.

I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

There are so many problems. Women can go to work on these as well without giving up their feminism.

Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.

Self-remembrance, awareness of 'I am' ripens him powerfully and speedily. Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

The single most important route of success is persistence - never, ever give up!

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.

Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.

A small craft in the ocean is, or should be, a benevolent dictatorship. The skipper's brain is the vessel's brain and he must give up his soul to her, regardless of his own feelings or inclinations.

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

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.

We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.

They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

i want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin.

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

I am confident. I never give up.

I didn't really want to give up music.

The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

And every last one of us can do better than give up.