Giving Up Quotes - Page 22

• Give up all ideas about yourself and simply be.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ideas, Giving, About Yourself

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• Sometimes we give up a dream to play a larger role in someone else's dream.

  Robert Breault

  Dream, Self, Play

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• There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  People, Black History, Yoke

  "Three Ways of Meeting Oppression". Essay by Martin Luther King, Jr., taken from MLK's book "Stride Toward Freedom", 1958.

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• I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.

  Edgar Guest

  Winter, Doctors, Pie

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• In your discipline, if doubt comes, let it come. You do your work and let doubt carry on with its work. And let us see which gives up first!

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Discipline, Doubt, Firsts

  "Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar".

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• The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

  Timothy Keller

  Grace, Demand, Unconditional

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.182, Penguin

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• You can't give up until the finish line, that's something I've learned.

  Gwen Jorgensen

  Lines, I've Learned, Finish Line

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• Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one's narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty.... Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using.

  Erich Fromm

  Mean, Self, Greed

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• Thank you guys. Thank you for never giving up on me.

  John Cena

  Wwe, Guy, Never Giving Up

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• CeNation. In Austin, TX, preparing to perfrom for members of our military. In that vein, I would like to let the Rough Riders Platoon know that even though they are going through a difficult time, with brave soliders making the ultimate sacrifice, to keep their heads up, hearts strong, and know that all of them are in my thoughts. Never Give Up.

  John Cena

  Strong, Military, Heart

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• Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

  Pete Earley

  Character, School, Sick

  "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". Interview with Lizzie Simon, www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

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• A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.

  Ann Althouse

  Winning, Years, Politics

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• Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Writing, Hands, Rejection

  Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• “I winked and locked my arm in Carter's, and we stood there, watching Dean stroll away. "You know the guy's never gonna give up," Carter nudged me, letting out a sigh. "We'd have really pretty babies, huh?" "Yup. They'd be rad little Brangelinas, running around tearing the place up." "Yeah, you're right. My rejection is such a disservice to the world..."

  Rachel Wade

  Running, Baby, Rejection

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• Going back to school is like going back in time. Immediately, for better or for worse, you must give up a little piece of your autonomy in order to become part of the group. And every group, of course, has its hierarchies and rules- spoken and unspoken. It is like learning to live once again in a family- which, of course, is the setting where all learning begins.

  Alice Steinbach

  School, Order, Groups

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• You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Decision, Abuse, Weakness

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• What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Wanted, Deliberate

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence”, Clarendon Press

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• But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.

  Walker Percy

  Ambition, Ordinary, Said

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Have faith in yourself.
  Think yes not no.
  Live life to the full.
  Never give up.

  Richard Branson

  Live Life, Thinking, Have Faith

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• We don't even get food for 2 times a day, still I didn't give up and continued to play football

  Luis Suarez

  Football, Play, Stills

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• If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Helping, Death Penalty

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• Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.

  John Updike

  Religious, Philosophical, Thinking

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• I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

  William Kamkwamba

  Don't Give Up, People, Focus

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• Not for the flag Of any land because myself was born there Will I give up my life. But I will love that land where man is free, And that will I defend.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Men, Land, Patriotism

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1991). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: selected poems : the centenary edition”, Harpercollins

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• The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Party, Vocabulary, Political

  "Viking Book of Aphorisms". Book by W. H. Auden, and Louis Kronenberger, p. 306, 1962.

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