100+ Giving Up Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "Talent and The Lying Game Star Alexandra Chando Admits She Totally Watches Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries". Interview with Haley Longman, www.clevver.com. April 29, 2011.

topic: Giving Up, Passion, Ambition, Entertainment Industry, Easy To Give Up

I would not leave anything to a man of action as he would be tempted to give up work; on the other hand, I would like to help dreamers as they find it difficult to get on in life.

- Alfred Nobel

source: "Nobel, Dynamite and Peace". Book by Ragnar Sohlman, p. 249, 1929.

topic: Giving Up, Men, Hands

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.

- Alice Cooper

topic: Country, Giving Up, School

I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

- Alice James

source: Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

topic: Dream, Giving Up, Reality, Cerebral, Flatulence

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

- Alice James

topic: Dream, Giving Up, Reality

The achievement of freedom is hardly possible without the felt mourning. This ability to mourn, i.e, to give up the illusion of a happy childhood, can restore vitality and creativity if a person is able to experience that he was never loved as a child for what he was, but for his achievements, success and good qualities. And that he sacrificed his childhood for this love, this will shake him very deeply.

- Alice Miller

topic: Children, Giving Up, Self Esteem

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.

- Alice Neel

topic: Art, Giving Up, Sacrifice

Going back to school is like going back in time. Immediately, for better or for worse, you must give up a little piece of your autonomy in order to become part of the group. And every group, of course, has its hierarchies and rules- spoken and unspoken. It is like learning to live once again in a family- which, of course, is the setting where all learning begins.

- Alice Steinbach

topic: Giving Up, School, Order, Going Back To School, Unspoken

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit, I can, because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.

- Alice Walker

topic: Giving Up, Spring, Flower, Nurturing, Won't Give Up

When I was 8 years old, my brother was making the noises of the animals I was eating, so I decided to go vegetarian. Then I would give up because I was 8.

- Alicia Silverstone

topic: Brother, Giving Up, Animal

There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies in bed. Ivy who used to be alive. Ivy who used to be. Ivy who used. Ivy who. Ivy-who-is-not-me. Not me. Not me. Not me.

- Alison McGhee

topic: Beautiful, Giving Up, Lying, Won't Give Up, Beautiful Sister

Fighting is life... Are you a person who gives up or are you a person who's going to fight?

- Alistair Overeem

topic: Giving Up, Fighting, Mma

One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable excitement, especially when combined with fresh air and exercise. How frequently have I, with great difficulty, persuaded patients who were never off my doorsteps to take up golf, and how rarely, if ever, I have seen them in my consulting room again.

- Alister MacKenzie

topic: Giving Up, Exercise, Golf, Doorstep

We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.

- Allen Iverson

topic: Sports, Fun, Giving Up, Every Night

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

- Alma Gluck

topic: Giving Up, Goal, Advice

It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

- Alva Myrdal

topic: Inspirational, Giving Up, Worthy

I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.

- Alva Myrdal

topic: Giving Up, Today, Messages, Disillusionment, Feel Like Giving Up

You can't type what a lesbian is. We're anything and everything. The one thing in common is that we make love to other women. So give up trying to limit us.

- Amanda Bearse

topic: Giving Up, Making Love, Trying

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.

- Amanda Holden

topic: Giving Up, Done, Found, Won't Give Up

If I had to give up cheese or chocolate, I'd give up chocolate in a heartbeat.

- Amanda Peet

topic: Giving Up, Cheesy, Chocolate

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

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Hope, Giving Up, Humorous, Retaining

Winning is not about headlines and hardware [medals]. It's only about attitude. A winner is a person who goes out today and every day and attempts to be the best runner and best person he can be. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

- Amby Burfoot

topic: Giving Up, Attitude, Struggle, Best Person

Winning has nothing to do with racing. Most days don't have races anyway. Winning is about struggle and effort and optimism, and never, ever, ever giving up.

- Amby Burfoot

source: Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.31, Rodale

topic: Running, Giving Up, Struggle

You speak of giving up my dreams. Have you ever, since Maeve's coven split, had a dream? Have you ever had anything worth dying for?

- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

topic: Dream, Giving Up, Dying

Western parents worry a lot about their children's self-esteem. But as a parent, one of the worst things you can do for your child's self-esteem is to let them give up. On the flip side, there's nothing better for building confidence than learning you can do something you thought you couldn't.

- Amy Chua

topic: Children, Giving Up, Self Esteem, Can Do Something

Real self-esteem has to be earned. I also believe in virtuous circles, like, nothing is fun until you are good at it. It is great if you can instill in children the ability to not give up, to have a work ethic.

- Amy Chua

topic: Children, Giving Up, Fun

When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.

- Amy Chua

topic: Giving Up, Kids, Lessons

I think about giving up. I almost do.

- Anchee Min

source: Anchee Min (2001). “Becoming Madame Mao”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Giving Up, Thinking, Giving

A man who opens a door for a woman or gives up his seat for her-even offering to carry something! Those are country manners that never go out of style.

- Andie MacDowell

topic: Country, Giving Up, Men

In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.

- Andre Ward

topic: Giving Up, Motivation, School

If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.

- Andrew Forrest

topic: Giving Up, Giving, Failing

If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.

- Andrew McDermott

topic: Giving Up, Might

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

- Andrew Vachss

topic: Giving Up, People, Ugly

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

- Andy Law

source: Andy Law (1999). “Creative Company: How St. Luke's Became "the Ad Agency to End All Ad Agencies"”, Wiley

topic: Change, Giving Up, Forever, Great Change

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

- Andy Mineo

source: FaceBook post by Andy Mineo from Jul 22, 2013

topic: Christian, Giving Up, Self, God Is In Control, Christian Living

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. Â It is an investment.

- Andy Stanley

source: Twitter post from May 17, 2011

topic: Giving Up, Sacrifice, Investment

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.

- Angel Haze

source: Song: Angels & Airwaves, Album: Dirty Gold, 2013

topic: Giving Up, Giving

Many artists give up after a while.

- Angie Stone

topic: Giving Up, Artist, Giving

We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up.

- Angus Buchan

source: Angus Buchan (2011). “Faith Like Potatoes: The story of a farmer who risked everything for God”, p.87, Monarch Books

topic: Giving Up, Sight, Lessons, Walk By Faith, Valuable Lessons

I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.

- Anita Diament

topic: Giving Up, Reading, Writing, Rejection Letters

To be relieved of love, she thought, was to give up a terrible burden.

- Anita Shreve

topic: Giving Up, Burden, Relieved

Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking Program achieved for me a thing that I thought was not possible - to give up a thirty year smoking habit literally overnight. It was nothing short of a miracle.

- Anjelica Huston

topic: Giving Up, Years, Smoking, Stop Smoking, Easy Way

A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.

- Ann Althouse

topic: Giving Up, Winning, Years

It's gratifying that it does; I love to give readings.

- Ann Beattie

topic: Giving Up, Reading, Doe, Never Give Up On Love

Never ever give up, even - and especially when - there's no chance of winning

- Ann Curry

topic: Inspiring, Giving Up, Inspiration

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

- Ann Druyan

topic: Giving Up, Passion, Thinking, Great Romance

MDMA is penicillin for the soul; you don't give up on penicillin when you see what it can do.

- Ann Shulgin

topic: Giving Up, Drug, Penicillin

You can give up the need to compete in the world- when you accept being complete in Christ.

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Giving Up, Needs, World

But marriage goes in waves. You've got to be patient. People bail and give up on their marriages way too early. They just don't put the work and the effort into it. You've got to suck up your ego a lot of times, because that can be a big downfall.

- Anna Benson

source: "How 'Baseball Wives' star Anna Benson keeps 12-year marriage interesting". www.foxnews.com. January 17, 2012.

topic: Giving Up, People, Effort, Male Ego

My mom and dad, you're my heart, thank you for keeping me going all these years and never letting me give up.

- Anna Gunn

topic: Mom, Giving Up, Dad, Mom And Dad

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Giving Up, Smart, People, Becoming Yourself, Trying To Be Perfect

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

- Anna Sui

source: "Fashion Designer Anna Sui'sTalkAsia Interview". Interview with Lorraine Hahn, edition.cnn.com. July 31, 2004.

topic: Giving Up, Interesting, Textiles

You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.

- Anne Bernays

topic: Giving Up, Character, Writing

There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.

- Anne Fortier

source: Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.85, Ballantine Books

topic: Giving Up, Men, Clothes

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Relationship, Giving Up, Past

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Giving Up, Hopeless, Reason, Never Give Up On Something, Don't Give Up Hope

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Inspiring, Hope, Giving Up, Hopes Up, Waiting And Hoping

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Cute, Mother, Giving Up, Mother Died

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.

- Anselm Kiefer

topic: Art, Giving Up, Believe

What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.

- Anson Dorrance

topic: Giving Up, Mean, Winning, Indomitable, Indomitable Will

Life is not about giving up or giving in. Life is about giving.

- Anthony D. Williams

topic: Giving Up, Kids, Life Is

The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences.

- Anthony Lawlor

topic: Giving Up, Mean, Sacrifice, Samsara, Wheel Of Life

Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.

- Anton du Beke

topic: Giving Up, Self, Nurse, Giving Up Smoking

We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.

- Anton Zeilinger

topic: Giving Up, Believe, Ideas

The best time to live-up to a great expectation be only when everyone says give-up.

- Anuj

topic: Giving Up, Giving, Expectations

I am confident. I never give up.

- Arantxa Sanchez Vicario

topic: Giving Up, I Never Give Up, Not Giving Up

It's okay that your parents aren't perfect; no one's are. And it's okay that they didn't have any perfect children either; no one's are. You see, our whole purpose is to strive together in righteousness, overcoming our weaknesses day by day. Don't ever give up on each other.

- Ardeth Kapp

topic: Children, Giving Up, Perfect, Don't Ever Give Up, Perfect Child

Never give up on something you love

- Ariana Grande

source: "What I've Learned: Representative Steve Scalise (R, La.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 19, 2010.

topic: Giving Up, Something You Love, Never Give Up On Something, Never Stop Believing

The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Mother, Wisdom, Giving Up, Perfectionism, Perfection And Imperfection

After a few (or many) bad relationships, its so easy to shut down, give up, and stop believing that the right person is out there for us. Our hearts yearn to fall in love, but our minds insist its not possible, and we enter into a tug-of-war with ourselves. Its as if one part of us is screaming, Yes! I deserve a great relationship! while another part insists, Ill never find him or her. When our beliefs contradict our desires, we experience an inner conflict that not only paralyzes us, but can actually prevent us from recognizing the possibilities for love that exist all around us.

- Arielle Ford

source: Arielle Ford (2009). “The Soulmate Secret: Manifest the Love of Your Life with the Law of Attraction”, p.14, Harper Collins

topic: Falling In Love, Soulmate, Giving Up, Soulmate Love, Tug Of War

We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace.

- Aristotle

topic: Peace, Giving Up, War

If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions; if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Giving Up, Lying, Effort, Disillusion

Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

- Aron Nimzowitsch

topic: Giving Up, Giving, Always Be Happy, Short Time

You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

- Arsene Wenger

topic: Giving Up, Play, Matter, Arsenal

I never give up on my players, and I'll never give up on people.

- Art Modell

topic: Giving Up, Player, People

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Giving Up, Hype, President

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

- Arthur Dean

topic: Giving Up, Player, Numbers

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

- Arthur Golden

topic: Giving Up, Rivers, Dams, I Never Give Up, Never Ever Give Up

I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

- Arthur Hays Sulzberger

topic: Giving Up, Warrior, Movement

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

- Ashlee Simpson

source: "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2005.

topic: Break Up, Giving Up, Want

I never give up on things.

- Ashley Tisdale

topic: Giving Up, I Never Give Up, Not Giving Up

If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.

- Ashley Young

topic: Giving Up, Heart, Compassion, Giving Up On Love

I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting doesn't allow me to do that. It was a hell of a drug, performance. It's a great thrill, especially for a storyteller. But it can go. Directing can go. Writing can't go. And in terms of what lies ahead, I want to have a burning focus - almost like smoke coming up from the paper as I write.

- Athol Fugard

topic: Giving Up, Lying, Writing

It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.

- Aubrey Plaza

topic: Giving Up, Consciousness, Minutes, Cosmic Consciousness

You would be amazed by what you can give up, lose, or break, and yet still be a person who gets happy over brownies.

- Augusten Burroughs

topic: Happiness, Giving Up, Would Be, Brownies

Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment ... Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.

- Augusto De Luca

source: "Augusto De Luca, Spaces and Sculptures". L'Œil de la Photographie, loeildelaphotographie.com. March 17, 2018.

topic: Photography, Giving Up, Cutting

Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

- Augustus

topic: Children, Giving Up, Husband, Child Care, Responsibility For Children

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

topic: Dream, Giving Up, Democracy, Absolute Freedom

You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them

- Austin Carlile

topic: Giving Up, Giving

Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.

- Austin Carlile

topic: Giving Up, Heart, Giving

Find out whats possible, If you never give up.

- Austin Mahone

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Giving Up, Giving, Never Giving Up

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

- Ayumi Hamasaki

topic: Giving Up, Thinking, Clothes

I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi prisoner, becomes real to me and not just passing news. And it is at times like this when I ask myself, am I prepared - like Huck Finn - to give up Sunday school heaven for the kind of hell that Huck chose?

- Azar Nafisi

topic: Children, Giving Up, Pain, Sunday School, North Korean

It's hard to beat a person that never gives up.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Fitness, Giving Up, Work, Fitness Motivational

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Giving Up, Giving

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Sports, Baseball, Giving Up, Too Much Fun

I would say that I've been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.

- Babyface

topic: Giving Up, Blessed, Lucky, Being Blessed

In the presence of this blood banner which represents our FÃ¼hrer, I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the saviour of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God.

- Baldur von Schirach

topic: Country, Giving Up, Blood, Ready To Give Up

From the bottom of my heart, I wanted to give up; I wanted to give up on living. There was no denying that tomorrow would come, and the day after tomorrow, and so next week, too. I never thought it would be this hard, but I would go on living in the midst of a glomy depression, and that made me feel sick to the depths of my soul. In spite of the tempest raging within me, I walked the night path calmly.

- Banana Yoshimoto

topic: Giving Up, Heart, Night

Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

- Barack Obama

topic: Giving Up, Dark, Years, Nelson, Dark Moments

If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void

- Barack Obama

topic: Giving Up, Differences, Ideas, Fill The Void

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

- Barbara Broccoli

source: "Q&A: Barbara Broccoli and Hilary Saltzman on Growing Up 'Bond'". MTV Interview, www.mtv.com. October 5, 2012.

topic: Giving Up, Passion, Not Giving Up, Never Give Up On Something

God never gives up on us no matter how hard we try to get ourselves loose. God does not let go. That doesn't mean he controls everything we do. It doesn't mean he puts a bridle on us and leads us by the nose. He gives each one of us free will and common sense and a spirit that can communicate with his. When we go through afflictions, he allows us to choose our response. But no matter what our response may be, he sticks around to the bitter end.

- Barbara Johnson

topic: God, Letting Go, Giving Up

If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Kindness, Giving Up, Flower

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

- Barbara Lee

source: "Alone on the Hill". Interview With Bill Hogan, www.motherjones.com. September 20, 2001.

topic: Giving Up, War, Erosion, Slippery

What do I want? I want to accelerate my personal evolution. I want Spirit to assist me in a greater capacity. I want my body to regenerate itself. I want to emanate health. I am willing to give up difficulty so that I can be a living example of what humanity can be.

- Barbara Marciniak

source: Barbara Marciniak (1992). “Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

topic: Giving Up, Humanity, Example, Emanate, Personal Evolution

Synergy does not mean giving up what we want. It means joining to co-create so each is able to receive ever more of what attracts us through joining rather than opposing.

- Barbara Marx Hubbard

source: FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Aug 03, 2012

topic: Giving Up, Mean, Doe, Opposing, Synergy

When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?' When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.

- Baroness Orczy

topic: Giving Up, Adventure, Fighting

I'm not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I'm not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

- Barry Zito

topic: Running, Giving Up, Cocky

I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up.

- Bart Cummings

source: Graham Chapman (2001). “Monty Python's the life of Brian (of Nazareth)”, Methuen Pub Ltd

topic: Sports, Giving Up, Bright Side

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

- Baruch Spinoza

topic: Giving Up, Real, Struggle, Distressing

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

- Bea Arthur

source: "A Message From The Late Bea Arthur" by Bea Arthur, www.peta.org.

topic: Kindness, Giving Up, Fighting, Peta, Stepping Stones

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Giving Up, Believe, Don't Ever Give Up

I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.

- Bear Bryant

topic: Giving Up, Believe, Player

The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with the belief that if someone succeeds it is because they are brilliant or talented or just better than meâ€¦ and the more of these words I heard the smaller I always felt! But the truth is often very differentâ€¦ and for me to learn that ordinary me can achieve something extra-ordinary by giving that little bit extra, when everyone else gives up, meant the world to me and I really clung to itâ€¦

- Bear Grylls

topic: Giving Up, Differences, Ordinary, Little Bit

Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Giving Up, Want, Way, Finish Line, Darkest Hour

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Giving Up, Heart, Survival

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - father, mother, wife, children - everything that you have. But the one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

- Bede Griffiths

topic: Mother, Children, Giving Up, Father Mother, Ready To Give Up

There is but one secret to success: never give up.

- Ben Nighthorse Campbell

topic: Giving Up, Secret, Giving

I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

- Ben Stiller

topic: New York, Giving Up, People, Sad Depressed, Never Give Up On Love

At the end of the day, give up your worries and give thanks for the journey.

- Ben Vereen

topic: Gratitude, Giving Up, Journey

Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Giving Up, Liberty, Security

Those who would give up liberty for safety deserve neither.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Giving Up, Safety, Liberty

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Giving Up, Patriotic, Society

Anyone willing to give up liberty in exchange for security deserves neither.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Giving Up, Liberty, Willing

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.

- Benjamin Hoff

topic: Giving Up, Self, Ideas

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.

- Bernadette Peters

topic: Giving Up, Home, Animal, Attention And Love, Never Give Up On Love

â€ŽOur ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!

- Bernard Cornwell

topic: Giving Up, Sea, Land

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

- Bernard Malamud

source: Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.149, Macmillan

topic: Giving Up, Thinking, Giving

The rich people are apparently leaving America. They're giving up their citizenship. These great lovers of America who made their money in this country-when you ask them to pay their fair share of taxes they run abroad. We have 19-year old kids who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan defending this country. They went abroad. Not to escape taxes. They're working class kids who died in wars and now billionaires want to run abroad to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. What patriotism! What love of country!

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Country, Running, Giving Up, Great Lovers

I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

- Bernie Siegel

topic: Giving Up, Doctors, People

We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile memories for ourselves. 'Cause we're not going to be alive forever

- Bert McCracken

topic: Memories, Giving Up, Forever

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

- Bethany Hamilton

source: "Then & Now: Bethany Hamilton". www.cnn.com. June 22, 2005.

topic: Giving Up, Heart, People, Infinite Possibilities, Dreams Do Come True

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

- Bethany Hamilton

topic: Giving Up, Mean

Tomorrow, I am fifty-two years old. And I want to say unequivocally that I am very happy to be alive, that being alive is better than being dead. And if I have just one wish it is this: that you work with all your might and love with all your heart and never lose hope and never give up.

- Betsy Lerner

topic: Giving Up, Heart, Years, Never Lose Hope, Happy To Be Alive

In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.

- Betty Edwards

topic: Children, Giving Up, Passion

Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.

- Beverley Mitchell

topic: Giving Up, College, Giving

The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked! Oh you broke? ( *shots* ) Now you're dead broke" My name is L and I'm from a part of town where clowns, Get beat down and all you hear is gunshot sounds 'Cause at nighttime ***** try to tax, they're sneakier than alley cats, that's why I carry gats

- Big L

source: Song: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, Album: Lifestylez Ov Da Poor and Dangerous, 1995

topic: Giving Up, Crazy, Book, Nighttime, Notches

Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love?

- Big Sean

source: Song: Memories, Part 2, 2011

topic: Giving Up, Giving, Willing

The hardest thing is to give up something you love, for the sake of Allah. But remember Allah never takes without giving something better.

- Bilal Philips

source: FaceBook post by Dr. Bilal Philips from May 14, 2017

topic: Giving Up, Sake, Remember

Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.

- Bill Bradley

topic: Giving Up, War, Order, Peacekeeping, Peacekeepers

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

- Bill Dellinger

topic: Running, Giving Up, Distance, Marathon Motivational, Marathon Runners

There is never a reason to give up! It's always going on somehow!

- Bill Kaulitz

topic: Giving Up, Giving, Reason

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.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Giving Up, Love You, Commitment

You give up your dream, you give up.

- Billy Crystal

topic: Dream, Giving Up, Giving

Don't give up your power.

- Billy Crystal

topic: Giving Up, Power

When you come to Christ, you have to give up all the other gods.

- Billy Graham

topic: Giving Up, Giving, Choices, Brida

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.

- Billy Mills

topic: Giving Up, Believe, Given

Tamaki: You're the one giving up without even trying.

- Bisco Hatori

topic: Giving Up, Giving, Trying

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

- Bjorn Borg

topic: Giving Up, Fighting, Persistence, Never Give In, I Never Give Up

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.

- Bjorn Borg

topic: Being Strong, Giving Up, Persistence

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

- Blaise Pascal

topic: Giving Up, Believe, Four, I Believe In You

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Giving Up, Self Esteem

The real game of Bigger and Better that Jesus is playing with us usually isn't about money or possessions or even our hopes. It's about our pride. He asks if we'll give up that thing we're so proud of, that thing we believe causes us to matter in the eyes of the world, and give it up to follow Him. He's asking us, 'Will you take what you think defines you, leave it behind, and let Me define who you are instead?'

- Bob Goff

topic: Jesus, Giving Up, Real, Bigger And Better

Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there's no viral action on your music, you're just not good enough. Don't get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.

- Bob Lefsetz

topic: Giving Up, Mad, Not Good Enough, Viral

The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.

- Bob Sorge

topic: Giving Up, Enemy, Causes, Cast Away

Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

- Bobby Bowden

topic: Giving Up, Sacrifice, Nfl, Better Yourself

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