Giving Up Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• Lift up your eyes, discouraged one. When you feel like giving up, when they say it can't be done, it's up to you to show them why they're wrong.

  Matty Mullins

  Eye, Up To You, Done

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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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• To all the dreamers out there, don't give up on your dreams.

  Wynonna Judd

  Dream, Don't Give Up, Giving

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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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• People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.

  Rosa Parks

  Hurt, Children, Tired

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• Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Sleep, Desire, Floating

  Louise Bourgeois, John Cheim (1988). “Louise Bourgeois: Drawings”

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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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• I'm SO trying to give up meat.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Giving, Trying, Meat

  "Curtis Sittenfeld: 'American Wife is the opposite of satire'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2010.

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• My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. But if it were only that, I wouldn't go back and listen to those records again and again. Listening to Radiohead makes me fell like I'm a Salieri to their Mozart. Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album.

  Dave Matthews

  Beautiful, Dream, Song

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• It's not worthy o human beings to give up.

  Alva Myrdal

  Inspirational, Worthy, Humans

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• If it had been anything else, we would have said, 'People don't want us to do it. Forget it. Let's just leave it alone.' But this is not in that category. This is interesting science. New science. With a hint of a possibility of a very useful technology. Therefore, if you've got any integrity, you don't give up. You only give up if you find you are wrong. But as long as you believe that you are right, you have to continue. And you have to take the consequences.

  Martin Fleischmann

  Integrity, Believe, Don't Give Up

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• A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time, cause the public to get emotional. Once the same emotions are generated by enough people, the politician can use it to steer the public in his desired direction. Fear is an emotion that is often used this way. A smart politician knows that if he can create fear in enough people, those people will give up what they truly want in order to give the politician what he says they need.

  Victor Wooten

  Fear, Smart, Emotional

  Victor L. Wooten (2008). “The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music”, p.69, Penguin

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• Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.

  Hiroo Onoda

  Hate, Men, Should

  "Words to Live by: Hiroo Onoda". Interview with Judit Kawaguchi, www.japantimes.co.jp. January 16, 2007.

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• You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them

  Austin Carlile

  Giving

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• Never give up. There is always hope, there is always life. You've just gotta open your heart to it. Live in love.

  Austin Carlile

  Heart, Giving, Never Giving Up

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• Some days success just means not giving up.

  Steve Roggenbuck

  Mean, Not Giving Up, Giving

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• All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Dream, Don't Give Up, Pakistan

  "Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Documentary Wins Oscar". tribune.com.pk. February 27, 2012.

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• My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.

  Jackie Evancho

  Dream, People, Advice

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• Identify the problem.”)
  I love the late Japanese psychotherapist Shoma Morita's advice to stop trying to fix yourself and start living instead: “Give up on yourself. Begin taking action now, while being neurotic or imperfect, or a procrastinator, or unhealthy, or lazy, or any other label by which you inaccurately describe yourself. Go ahead and be the best imperfect person you can be and get started on those things you want to accomplish before you die.

  Shoma Morita

  Being Yourself, Imperfect Person, Advice

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• There are 6 billion people in the world and every single one is a diamond in some stage of being polished. Life is either going to polish you up or grind you down. And the difference between the two lies in how much hope you have, how much faith you have in the fact that you do carry something special on the inside that's waiting to get out. Many give up, not knowing they were only 10 minutes from triumph.

  Perry Marshall

  Lying, Two, Differences

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