Giving Up Quotes - Page 15

• A leader can give up anything - except final responsibility.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Leader, Finals

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow”, p.69, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Self, Effort, Facts

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• Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

  Seth Godin

  Believe, Being Real, Realist

  Seth Godin (2015). “Poke The Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?”, p.29, Penguin

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• There are no circumstances imaginable, not even victory, under which the proletariat should give up its possession of arms.

  Karl Marx

  Victory, Arms, Revolutionary

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• If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.

  David Keirsey

  Design, Trying, Want

  David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

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• 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

  Self, Nurse, Smoking

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• Remember to always dream. More importantly, work hard to make those dreams come true and never give up.

  Robert Ballard

  Dream, Hard Work, Remember

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• I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

  Charlton Heston

  Giving, Tenacity, Giving In

  "Charlton Heston Makes Statement About Alzheimer's". "CNN News" with Fredricka Whitfield, transcripts.cnn.com. August 9, 2002.

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• Writing is almost a place of dreams for me, and I don't have to give up anything to do it.

  Walter Mosley

  Dream, Writing, Giving

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Giving up is not the answer. Neither is giving in. Stand your ground. There is a way of doing that without having to be combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self, and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression. But giving up and giving in is not the way. Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You is the way.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Self, Answers, Hanging On

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Oct 24, 2014

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• Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat. Touch people. Help out. Give up. Love people. Give your best away. There’s more. What’s the problem? Relax. You’re going to die. Throw a party. Eat off my plate. Sing to me. Meet me in the bedroom. Get a massage. Give one. Let your amazement out into the room. Pry open the box you hide your joy in. Be a poem.

  John Patrick Shanley

  Love, Life, Party

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• You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

  Dolly Parton

  Attitude, Long, Want

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• 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

  Spring, Flower, Years

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.194, The New Press

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• Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire for rest, for friendship, for the sound of human voices? Could I now reclaim a single hour spent talking to my brother, Philip, and give it to Ken Daggart? Who made it our duty to accept, as the only reward for our work, the gray torture of pretending love for those who roused nothing but contempt?

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Talking, Voice

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• Giving up is the greatest failure.

  Jack Ma

  Giving, Entrepreneur

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• As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Wisdom, Surrender, Contradiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

  Marianne Williamson

  Happiness, Attachment, Appreciate

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Don't give up just because of what someone said. Use it as motivation to push harder.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivation, Don't Give Up, Use

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

  Big Sean

  Giving, Willing, What You Love

  Song: Memories, Part 2, 2011

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• If a child has been able in his play to give up his whole loving being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confidence and power to the service of the world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Children, Play, Tasks

  Rudolf Steiner (1988). “Education as an Art”, p.96, SteinerBooks

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• Sergeant first class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit.

  Barack Obama

  Class, Doe, Firsts

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wisdom, Don't Give Up, Mean

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• Living with doubt ... is almost always more profitable than living with certainty.
  People don't like doubt, so they pay money and give up opportunities to avoid it.
  Entrepreneurshi p is largely about living with doubt. If you need reassurance, you're giving up quite a bit to get it. On the other hand, if you can get in the habit of seeking out uncertainty, you'll have developed a great instinct.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Hands, People

  "Living with doubt". sethgodin.typepad.com. December 5, 2010.

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• We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

  Anthony de Mello

  Giving, Fear Of The Unknown, Known

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• If each photograph steals a bit of the soul, isn't it possible that I give up pieces of mine every time I take a picture?

  Richard Avedon

  Soul, Pieces, Photographer

  "Picture of the week: Women, by Richard Avedon" by Hannah Booth, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2013.

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