Given Up Quotes - Page 3

• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

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  You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

  Babe Ruth

  Life, Motivational, Stay Strong

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• Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

  Frank Ocean

  Heartbreak, Sorry, Heartache

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• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Stay Strong, Perseverance, Lonely

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Inspiring, Graduation

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

  Maya Angelou

  I Hate You, Littles, Aging

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• Love is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept.

  Rich Mullins

  Love Is, Found, Given

  Song: What Susan Said

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• Hell is given up so reluctantly by those who don't expect to go there

  Harry Leon Wilson

  Heaven, Hell, Given

  Harry Leon Wilson (2007). “The Spenders”, p.241, Wildside Press LLC

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• The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

  Grant Cardone

  Ambitious, Given

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Apr 29, 2017

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• Pursue success, long after any sane person would have given up.

  Heidi Klum

  Long, Given, Sane

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• Our world today so desperately hungers for hope, yet uncounted people have almost given up. There is despair and hopelessness on every hand. Let us be faithful in proclaiming the hope that is in Jesus.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Our World, Hands

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Oct 30, 2013

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• I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.

  Sidney Poitier

  Mother, Two, Months

  "Oprah Talks to Sidney Poitier". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. October, 2000.

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• Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

  Henry Miller

  Chaos, Ghost, Midst

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• The search for God is a reversal of the normal, mundane worldly order. In search for God, you revert from what attracts you and swim toward that which is difficult. You abandon your comforting and familiar habits with the hope (the mere hope!) that something greater will be offered you in return for what you have given up.. if we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be.. a prudent insurance policy.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Destiny, Order, Swim

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• Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Giving Up, World

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• Still, there was also was something reassuring about working for Commercial, almost hopeful. Like things that were lost could be found again. As we drove away, I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Doors, Hopeful, Would Be

  Sarah Dessen (2008). “Lock and Key”, p.27, Penguin

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• One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.

  Anne Fadiman

  Children, Parenting, Thinking

  Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.27, Macmillan

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• I can't imagine pain greater than stepping across the veil and realizing I had not done what I came here to do - or realizing that I had given up my life to little or nothing, only then to find that it was gone. p 3

  Sheri L. Dew

  Pain, Gone, Done

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• She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

  Edith Wharton

  Communication, Archer, Eye

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness

  Italo Svevo

  Strong, Fear, Believe

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• Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was.

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Fire, Would Be

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions”, p.16, Harper Collins

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