Giving Up Quotes - Page 35

• Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.

  Evanna Lynch

  Long, Way, Impossible

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• You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Common, Interest

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• Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. Learn to become wise. Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy. The real spiritual progress of the meditator is measured by the extent to which they achieve inner tranquility and freedom from desire.

  Sivananda

  Wise, Spiritual, Real

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• A lot of people complain about yesterday. We have no power to change yesterday. But this very day, 30 years later, is what we can control and decide. Change yourself, take baby steps, and stay determined for ten years. I thank the times of change and everyone’s complaints. Because when everyone is complaining, that is your chance, an opportunity. It’s only in times of change that someone can be clear of what he has and wants, and what he needs to give up.

  Jack Ma

  Baby, Opportunity, Years

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• Compromise is necessary so long as you never give up who you are. That isn't compromise; that's spiritual death. You have to remain true to yourself.

  Charles de Lint

  Spiritual, Long, Compromise

  "The Ivory and the Horn". Book by Charles de Lint. Chapter "Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night", p. 291, 1996.

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• Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Despair, Principles, Achieve

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book V, 9,

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• I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

  Alice James

  Dream, Reality, Should Have

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices in our every effort to stand tall and walk toward Him. Even when we stumble, He urges us not to be discouraged-never to give up or flee our allotted field of service-but to take courage, find our faith, and keep trying.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Love, God, Faith

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• My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs because, full disclosure: I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, "Don't write that," or "Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats."

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Coffee, Writing, Cat

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself.

  Zac Hanson

  Love Is, Keys, Selfless

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• The single biggest mistake, I think, is giving up too soon.

  John Kremer

  Mistake, Thinking, Giving

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• I’m definitely excited to have a fresh start. Talking to the coach [Bob Hartley], talking to management, they want me to have success, and that definitely makes your life easier. It keeps your mind free to just go out there and play as good as you can, instead of worrying about giving up bad goals and having to prove yourself every night – not just to the public, but to the coaching staff and everybody else. That’s definitely a nicer way to feel comfortable, if you know they have your back.

  Jonas Hiller

  Night, Talking, Play

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• The position of the hysterical subject is that he or she always guesses what is behind the curtain, that is why such a subject usually ends up [...] giving up on love.

  Renata Salecl

  Giving, Hysterical

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• [We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, Self

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• Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Friends, Dream, Desire

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• Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

  Chris Murray

  Men, Problem, Failing

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• If you start a painting and you don't like where it's going, don't give up on it. Just keep going and follow through. You might be surprised how it ends up.

  Andrew McDermott

  Don't Give Up, Might, Painting

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• People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this down. And you and I, let's go and see if we can't master this thing, a few steps at a time without giving up your day job, without having to give up your whole life.

  Tony Robbins

  Jobs, People, Want

  "Interview with Tony Robbins on His New Book, ‘Money: Master the Game’". Interview With Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2014.

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• One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Heart, Broken, Facts

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• When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.

  C. S. Lewis

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.

  Steve Jobs

  Don't Give Up, Faces, Bricks

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• A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.

  Richard Louv

  Thinking, People, Adults

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• You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Telling The Truth, Stills

  "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 44e), 1980.

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• A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Careers, Guy, Littles

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• Even if my throat bleeds from singing and my body breaks from dancing,I will never give up on stage.Under the circumstances where you cannot enjoy yourself whole-heartedly.Just scream and shout 'till your throat hurts

  Jaejoong

  Hurt, Dancing, Singing

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