Giving Up Quotes - Page 31

• I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds,Sniff them and think and sniff again and tryOnce more to think what it is I am remembering,Always in vain. I cannot like the scent,Yet I would rather give up others more sweet,With no meaning, than this bitter one.

  Edward Thomas

  Sweet, Thinking, Scent

  Edward Thomas (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Edward Thomas (Illustrated)”, p.21, Delphi Classics

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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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• I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.

  John Mellencamp

  People, Age, Kind

  Source: www.esquire.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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• If you give up, the game is already over.

  Takehiko Inoue

  Games, Giving, Ifs

  "How 'Slam Dunk' Manga artist brings characters to life" by Lianne Turner, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2012.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Dark, Doubt, Despair

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1849). “Poetical works”

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• I am still a student. My classmates study really hard, so I feel like I should too. But they always say things like: “You don't have to.”, “Aren't you busy?”, “Just give up, you have another way.”; But I don't think that's right. There's no reason for me to give up, I didn't quit high school.

  Seohyun

  School, Thinking, Way

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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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• My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.

  Jean Anouilh

  Years, Wife, Theatre

  Jean Anouilh “The Waltz of the Toreadors”

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• The acceptance of partition does not commit us to renounce Transjordan: one does not demand from anybody to give up his vision. We shall accept a state in the boundaries fixed today, but the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external factor will be able to limit them.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Acceptance, People, Vision

  "New Outlook" Journal, April 1977.

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• Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Real, Air

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Winning, Order, Sake

  Henry Van Dyke (2009). “Joy & Power: Three Messages with One Meaning”, p.8, The Floating Press

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• Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

  Yoko Ono

  Beautiful, Giving, Don't Ever Give Up

  Twitter post from Sep 14, 2015

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• I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

  Bernard Malamud

  Thinking, Giving, Can Do

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.149, Macmillan

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• Above all, do not give up your moral and political autonomy by accepting in somebody else's terms the illiberal practicality of the bureaucratic ethos or the liberal practicality of the moral scatter. Know that many personal troubles cannot be solved merely as troubles, but must be understood in terms of public issues and in terms of the problems of history making.

  C. Wright Mills

  Ethos, Issues, Political

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family, you can't concentrate on your work. It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up. That's why I have so much respect for people like Dylan and Neil Young and Tom Waits, because they keep at it. I have a new respect for a true artist.

  Robert Hilburn

  Artist, People, Waiting

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Never give up! Keep practicing - it's the only way to get better. But don't lose sight of the outside world. As an artist, you have to connect with the world around you, or you've got nothing to inspire you. Learn from everything and everyone, good or bad. It's just as important to learn what not to do, as well as what to do, in art, in life.

  Steve Landes

  Art, Sight, Inspire

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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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• 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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