Abandon Quotes - Page 34

• If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

  Howard Staunton

  Anger, Player, Games

  7 Copy quote

• The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America.

  Albert J. Beveridge

  Opportunity, America, Race

  Maiden speech in the Senate. "Congressional Record", Senate, 56th Congress, 1st session, pp. 704-712, en.wikisource.org. January 09, 1900.

  80 Copy quote

  Show source

• Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

  David Dreman

  Investing, Ships, Strategy

  8 Copy quote

• Amritsar is the place where my work and action speaks for itself. Since, I started contesting elections from this holy place, I have
  promised myself never to abandon this place. Either, I will contest from Amritsar, or else I won’t contest elections

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Holy Places, Action, Election

  9 Copy quote

• My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

  Chanakya

  Children, Desire, Poison

  15 Copy quote

• Mozart's mental grip never loosens; he never abandons himself to any one sense; even at his most ecstatic moments his mind is vigorous, alert, and on the wing. He dives unerringly on to his finest ideas like a bird of prey, and once an idea is seized he soars off again with an undiminished power.

  Walter J. Turner

  Ideas, Wings, Bird

  4 Copy quote

• If you're the leader, you've got to give up your omniscient and omnipotent fantasies - that you know and must do everything. Learn how to abandon your ego to the talents of others.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Giving Up, Leader, Ego

  4 Copy quote

• One reason there are so many short-lived management fads is that their prescriptions were derived and advocated in precisely this way. So managers read about a fad and try it, find that it doesn't work, abandon the effort, and move on to the next thing. In reality, it is usually the case that the faddish prescription was indeed sound advice in certain circumstances, but actually was poor advice in other circumstances.

  Clayton Christensen

  Moving, Reality, Effort

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People can put you down, and they will but Allah will never abandon you, so long as you don’t.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Long, People, Down And

  84 Copy quote

• Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Limits, Silent, Witness

  15 Copy quote

• I just wanted to get the hell out of my town. I wanted to leave with reckless abandon. I didn't care where I ended up, as long as I saw as much as humanly possible.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Long, Care, Saws

  19 Copy quote

• Jazz is smooth and cool. Jazz is rage. Jazz flows like water. Jazz never seems to begin or end. Jazz isn't methodical, but jazz isn't messy either. Jazz is a conversation, a give and take. Jazz is the connection and communication between musicians. Jazz is abandon.

  Nat Wolff

  Communication, Cool Jazz, Smooth Jazz

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

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• Most executives have learned that what one postpones, one actually abandons ... timing is a most important element in the success of any effort. To do five years later what would have been smart to do five years earlier, is almost a sure recipe for frustration and failure.

  Peter Drucker

  Smart, Frustration, Years

  4 Copy quote

• God's people should plan for a voyage of a thousand years, but be prepared to abandon ship tonight.

  Joseph Bayly

  Years, People, Tonight

  7 Copy quote

• If the youth is content to abandon his previous associates and to throw in his lot whole-heartedly with the rulers, he may, after suitable tests, be promoted, but if he shows any regrettable solidarity with his previous associates, the rulers will reluctantly conclude that there is nothing to be done with him except to send him to the lethal chamber before his ill-disciplined intelligence has had time to spread revolt. This will be a painful duty to the rulers, but I think they will not shrink from performing it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Done, May

  6 Copy quote

• Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

  Henry Rollins

  Pride, Trying, Might

  4 Copy quote

• Would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Successful, Government, Energy

  First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The interesting thing is that the 82% of the Greeks do not want to abandon the Euro. They really believe that there might be some kind of magical way where we could stay in the Eurozone but do not do our homework. This is not possible. So what we are trying to do is explain, you know, we in Greece invented democracy but we also invented at the same time populism.

  Dora Bakoyannis

  Believe, Interesting, Greek

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Satisfied, Guardianship, Hard

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “On The Aesthetic Education Of Man”, p.52, Lulu.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Use your mind. Remember. Observe. You are not different from others. Most of their experiences are valid for you too. Think clearly and deeply, go into the structure of your desires and their ramifications. They are a most important part of your mental and emotional make-up and powerfully affect your actions. Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Emotional, Thinking, Remember You

  16 Copy quote

• Playing with various approaches may be due to resistance to going within, to the fear of having to abandon the illusion of being something or somebody in particular.Of all the affections the love of oneself comes first. Light and love are impersonal.When you do not think yourself to be this or that, all conflict ceases. Any attempt to do something about your problems is bound to fail, for what is caused by desire can be undone only in freedom from desire. You cannot be rid of problems without abandoning illusions.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Thinking, Light, Desire

  29 Copy quote

• A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Letting Go, Warrior, Hands

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

  Hector Berlioz

  Mind, Firsts, Consciousness

  13 Copy quote

• Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving Up, Humility, Reality

  18 Copy quote

• Every great thing starts with an idea, followed by a doubt and finally a resolve to abandon or pursue. Victory is a treacherous journey.

  Dane Cook

  Journey, Ideas, Victory

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2014

  5 Copy quote

  Show source