Giving Up Quotes - Page 19

• To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

  Ruth Gordon

  Gambling, Luck, Littles

  Ruth Gordon (1971). “Myself Among Others”

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• Government is a parasite-a cancer that by nature tries to spread deeper into society. Those who want to run others' lives won't give up and start minding their own business.

  Harry Browne

  Running, Cancer, Government

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• And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Israel, Land, Want

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• You have to define success in your own way. What maintains your dignity and integrity and what is your life's plan; where do you want to put your efforts? I could be richer and more famous, but I would have to give up things that are of infinitely more value.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Success, Integrity, Effort

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• If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

  Steve Lacy

  Stars, People, Trying

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• Never ride a bike with the brakes on. If something is proving too difficult, give up and do something else. Try to live without resort to per­severance.

  Geoff Dyer

  Trying, Persevere, Resorts

  "Ten rules for writing fiction", www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• In these researches I followed the principles of the experimental method that we have established, i.e., that, in presence of a well-noted, new fact which contradicts a theory, instead of keeping the theory and abandoning the fact, I should keep and study the fact, and I hastened to give up the theory.

  Claude Bernard

  Science, Principles, Research

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.184, Courier Corporation

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• Man is either governed by his own laws - freedom - or the laws of another - slavery. Are you willing to become slaves? Will you give up your freedom, your life and your property without a single struggle? No man has a right to rule over his fellow creatures.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Freedom, Struggle, Men

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• [T]hose who are willing to surrender their freedom for security have always demanded that if they give up their full freedom it should also be taken from those not prepared to do so.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Taken, Surrender, Should

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• Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

  Peter McWilliams

  Fear, People, Acres

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• I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting doesn't allow me to do that. It was a hell of a drug, performance. It's a great thrill, especially for a storyteller. But it can go. Directing can go. Writing can't go. And in terms of what lies ahead, I want to have a burning focus - almost like smoke coming up from the paper as I write.

  Athol Fugard

  Lying, Writing, Numbers

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• Paradoxically, life is worth living for those who have something for which they will gladly give up life.

  A. J. Muste

  Life Is, Quaker, Worth Living

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• We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

  Saddam Hussein

  Children, Sacrifice, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Heaven, Slavery

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2581, Manonmani Publishers

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• The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Sports, Men, Realizing

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• Obviously, family values mirror our personal priorities. Given the gravity of current conditions, would parents be willing to give up just one outside thing, giving that time and talent instead to the family.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Mirrors, Priorities, Parent

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• It is ok to err, but it is not ok to stop playing; it is ok to lose, but it is not ok to give up.

  John Kessel

  Leadership, Sports, Loses

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• Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.

  Sadie Robertson

  Real, Character, Champion

  FaceBook post by Sadie Robertson from Mar 20, 2016

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• When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

  Erin Gray

  Meditation, Answers, Praying

  "Erin Gray, then and now: an interview" by Patricia Vollmer, www.wired.com. October 16, 2012.

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• We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

  Shimon Peres

  Salary, Cost, Matter

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

  Gloria Estefan

  Successful, Different, Who You Are

  "Gloria Estefan pens a pup of a book". www.today.com. October 10, 2005.

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• I didn't really want to give up music.

  Bryan Ferry

  Giving, Want, Ferry

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• Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman—all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sex, Men, Self

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
  “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

  Willa Cather

  Hate, Fire, Sight

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1481, eBookIt.com

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• There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

  Veronica Roth

  Courage, Bravery, World

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