Giving Up Quotes - Page 19

• I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

  Harry Reid

  Hate, Fighting, White

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com. December 16th, 2010.

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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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• The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose-and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Stars, Men

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.10

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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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• Give up grains and fried restaurant foods. Doing that pretty much gets you most of the way there.

  Mark Sisson

  Health, Inspire, Way

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• So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Determination, Struggle

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• If you don't give up, you still have a chance.

  Jack Ma

  Positive, Attitude, Don't Give Up

  "How I Did It: Jack Ma, Alibaba.com". Interview with Rebecca Fannin, www.inc.com. January 01, 2008.

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• When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.

  Joanne Woodward

  Christmas, Vivid, Next

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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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• When I go, if there's a tombstone it will say, She doesn't give in. She doesn't give up. And she never takes no for an answer.

  Doris Roberts

  Tombstone, Answers, Headstone

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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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• You are loved by the One who knows you best. God's love will never disappoint you and never give up on you.

  Rick Warren

  God, Christian, Disappoint

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• Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Struggle, Heart

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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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• Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Encouragement, Communication, Hard Work

  Kurt Vonnegut (2010). “Bluebeard”, p.34, Random House

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• I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

  Alain Robert

  Healing, Risk, Way

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• Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

  Richard Pinhas

  Liberty, Musician, Free Life

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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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