Gave Up Quotes - Page 15

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  I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

  Johnny Carson

  Death, Sex, Drinking

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• And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Games, Training

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• I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.

  William Hague

  Writing, Piano, Things I Love

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• I was asked to do a test commercial shoot for an Apple product which didn't mean much to me at the time. Some music player that holds all your songs. Sounded cool to me and I never gave up an opportunity to work, especially with the possibility of it turning into a national commercial. Coolest job I did in that time.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Song, Jobs, Mean

  "My Steve Jobs story…". shumbodynamedharry.tumblr.com.

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• I gave up my childhood for a career.

  Brenda Lee

  Careers, Childhood

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• I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out.

  Anne Rice

  Years, Work Out, Hours

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• I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.

  Sam Shepard

  Character, Thinking, Roles

  "Sam Shepard plays with the Butch Cassidy myth" by Mark Olsen, www.latimes.com. October 09, 2011.

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• It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series.

  Jacqueline Carey

  Wisdom, Struggle, Writing

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• I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.

  David Nail

  Country, Song, Long

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• I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

  Manu Bennett

  Mother, Brother, School

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• I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.

  Britt Ekland

  Coffee, Cups, Vices

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• I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.

  John Lennon

  Meaningful, Song, Morning

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• You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me.

  Peter Furler

  Christian, Giving Up, Eye

  Song: Reach

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• I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it; Never underestimate the heart of a champion.

  Kai Greene

  Heart, People, Champion

  FaceBook post by Kai Greene from Sep 30, 2012

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• Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a resolution his heart thought was right. Tempus never gave up.

  Janet Morris

  Loyalty, Determination, Pain

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.6, Paradise Publishing

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• Don't let someone who gave up on their dreams talk you out of going after yours.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Success, Dream

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from May 16, 2013

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• I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

  Francine Rivers

  I Can, Loses

  Francine Rivers (2012). “A Voice in the Wind”, p.485, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

  Umberto Eco

  Good Life, Thinking, Later In Life

  "Umberto Eco, The Art of Fiction No. 197". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, 2008.

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• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  Abraham Maslow

  Determination, Life And Love, Ocean

  "A History of Psychology: A Global Perspective". Book by Eric Shiraev (p. 431),

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• Why do women want to dress like men when they're fortunate enough to be women? Why lose femininity, which is one of our greatest charms? We get more accomplished by being charming than we would be flaunting around in pants and smoking. I'm very fond of men. I think they are wonderful creatures. I love them dearly. But I don't want to look like one. When women gave up their long skirts, they made a grave error.

  Tasha Tudor

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Catholic

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2010

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• I wanted to live in Paris and write nothing but fiction and be perfectly free. I had decided all this had to be settled by the time I was thirty, and so I gave up my job and moved to Paris at twenty-eight. I just held my breath and jumped. I didn’t even look to see if there was water in the pool.

  Mavis Gallant

  Jobs, Writing, Paris

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• When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.

  Benjamin Spock

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Years

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• Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.

  Al Yankovic

  Years, Sick, Hamburgers

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• The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Sacrifice, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “The Problem of Education”

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