Giving Up Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

  Babe Ruth

  Don't Give Up, Beats, Hard

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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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• Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Religious, Mean

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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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• 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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• You cannot play for Arsenal and give up, no matter what the score is.

  Arsene Wenger

  Play, Matter, Score

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• We try so hard to hold onto our stuff. We call it our treasure and expect to feel joy. But in God’s economy if we want to gain, we must give up. For joy won’t ever be found in collecting treasures. Joy radiates in our life only when we share our treasures.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Joy, Trying, Treasure

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 19, 2016

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• Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

  Mother Teresa

  Giving, Poverty

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1990). “Total Surrender”

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• Believe me, the hardest thing for a man to give up is that which he really doesn't want, after all.

  Albert Camus

  Believe, Men, Want

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• The truth is we all get tired, we all get weary. In fact, if you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small. If you never feel like quitting, then you need to set some larger goals. When that pressure comes to get discouraged and to think about how you can’t take it anymore, that is completely normal. Every person feels that way at times.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Tired, Thinking

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• In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

  Elie Wiesel

  Order, Giving, Standing

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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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• You can never give up-athletics taught me that. You must work hard, prepare, learn from your losses and continue to fight until the very end.

  Roger Staubach

  Hard Work, Fighting, Loss

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