Giving Up Quotes - Page 26

• Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.

  Jennifer Saunders

  Writing, Office, Missing

  "What are you looking at?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2004.

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• I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Writing, Thinking, Would Be

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• A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as 'give up meat to save the planet.

  Nicholas Stern

  Vegetarian Diet, Choices, Meat

  Go green, go vegan" by Chris Goodall, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2009.

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• I learned to focus and work hard and not give up. I learned that every obstacle is really an opportunity.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Hard Work, Opportunity, Focus

  "'Glee' Star to Write a Book" by Antoinette Bueno, www.etonline.com. July 2, 2012.

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• Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

  Lee Westwood

  Benefits, Littles, Week

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• You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.

  Anne Bernays

  Character, Writing, Thinking

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• Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

  George Meany

  Fighting, Odds, Long

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• Blessed is that Christian who can accept at the start by simple faith that which others reach only through years of questioning and reach it only then because they give up trying to analyze it and decide to accept it.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Blessed, Simple

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• I will dance a little. I will move with the wind. I will give my body to my love and celebrate that we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves. We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point. This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Moving, Love Life, Ideas

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.60, Conari Press

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• It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

  Steve Lacy

  Important, Sound, Rotten

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• Even though college has been hard, I don't want to give up.

  Beverley Mitchell

  College, Want, Has Beens

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• I know one thing: There are a billion Islamic people in the world today, and there will be about 2 billion by the time we're dead. They're not going to give up their religion.

  Chris Matthews

  Islamic, People, World

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• Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.

  David Millar

  Hurt, Don't Give Up, Guy

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• I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

  Don McLean

  Singing, Want, Wells

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• It's too easy to give up on the things that are hard to accomplish.

  C. R. Johnson

  Easy, Accomplish, Things That Are Hard

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• 

  I refuse to believe today will be just another day in my life.
  All that I am.
  All that I will become will be written through my thoughts and my actions.
  I've conditioned my mind.
  Trained my body.
  Sacrificed my soul.
  There will be obstacles.
  Doubters.
  Mistakes.
  But nothing comes to those who wait.
  Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up.

  Kai Greene

  Mistake, Believe, Waiting

  FaceBook post by Kai Greene from Nov 06, 2016

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• Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

  Vikram Seth

  Jobs, Writing, Want

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• Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

  Pope Francis

  School, Broken, Poverty

  Pope Francis (2016). “Men of Mercy: Pope Francis Speaks to Priests”, p.74, BookBaby

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• If his suffering did not make Jesus give up on us, nothing will.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Suffering, Ifs

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• When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Giving, Nervous, Performers

  "Glastonbury: Bruce Forsyth 'very emotional' after one of biggest gigs of his life" by Mark Jefferies, www.mirror.co.uk. June 30, 2013.

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• I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

  Emmanuel Jal

  Don't Give Up, Talking, Long

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• For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, I Will Never Give Up, Giving

  "SpaceX: 'We have heard from launch control that there has been an anomaly'" by Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 02, 2008.

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• I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Fashion, Medicine, Spaceships

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• Perseverance: Try and try again until the goal is achieved. Never give up.

  Rick Hendrick

  Perseverance, Goal, Trying

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• We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Mistake, Responsibility, Mean

  Calvin Coolidge (1972). “Calvin Coolidge says: dispatches written by former-president Coolidge and syndicated to newspapers in 1930-1931 : gathered for issuance in book form on the one-hundredth anniversary of Mr. Coolidge's birth, 4 July 1972”

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