Abandon Quotes

• For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Forever, Path, You Choose

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• I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

  Cesare Pavese

  Hard Times, Destiny, Captains

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• Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Poet

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• Some things need to be let go before other things can be let in.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Letting Go, Ditching

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 25, 2013

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• The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God's will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.

  Umberto Eco

  Waiting, Asking, Elements

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.420, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  People, Waiting, Purpose

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Favors, May, Given

  "Persian Letters". Book by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 76, 1721.

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• We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

  Elif Safak

  Rabbit Holes, Encounters, Rabbits

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• You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

  Thomas More

  Wind, Storm, Ships

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.111, Executive Intelligence Review

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• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fate, Destiny, Self

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

  Charles Stanley

  Children, Giving Up, Perfect

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• Art is never finished, only abandoned.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Art, Mislead Us, Design

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• The purpose of a spirit filled life is to demonstrate the supernatural power of our living God so that the unsaved multitudes will abandon their dead gods to call upon the name of The Lord and be delivered.

  T.L. Osborn

  Spirit Filled Life, Names, Purpose

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• Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.

  Frida Kahlo

  Laughter, Light, Laughing

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• Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

  Ira Glass

  Funny, Humorous, Enough

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• It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

  Phillip Mann

  Struggle, Destroyed

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• Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Encouraging, People

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• The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Essence, Ideas, Religion

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  The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

  George Washington

  4th Of July, America, Liberty

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.97, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Solitude, Trying, Cost

  "The Middle of Things: Advice for Young Writers" by Andrew Solomon, www.newyorker.com. March 11, 2015.

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• For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.

  Nhat Hanh

  Views, Needs, Ready

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Being Peace”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Artist, Creating Art

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• I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Believe, Thinking

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Ultimately one must abandon the path to enlightenment. If you still define yourself as a Buddhist, you are not a buddha yet.

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Self, Enlightenment

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• I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Artist, Who I Am, People

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