Giving Up Quotes - Page 37

• Discipline to me is sacrifice; it's willingness to give up something you want to do, so you can better yourself.

  Bobby Bowden

  Sacrifice, Nfl, Discipline

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• Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Opportunity, Remember, Moments

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

  Gore Vidal

  Sky, Religion, Phrases

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• Who gets to decide who's an enemy combatant and who's an American citizen? Are we really so frightened and so easily frightened that we would give up a thousand-year history?

  Rand Paul

  Years, Nsa, Enemy

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.

  Eli Manning

  Team, Games, Wells

  "The Mannings On Fatherhood". Interview with Dave Golokhov, www.askmen.com. June 20, 2015.

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• I give up so much to do what I do. Like, I give up a personal life. I give up my friends, my family. I give up a lot of stuff to pursue what I love and to make my fans happy. I give up so much. So, I'm going to be the best.

  Justin Bieber

  Fans, Stuff, My Family

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Why would I give up so much to just be another singer or another person doing what he loves? I'm out here doing everything to the best of my capability to be the best.

  Justin Bieber

  Singers, Being The Best, Capability

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• We're in a tough place in this world. There are a lot of kids giving up very early. Scripture says it takes a village to raise one child, and that's what these coaches are going to have to go back and understand.

  Ray Lewis

  Children, Kids, It Takes A Village

  "Ray Lewis Is Fed Up With Abusive Coaching". Interview with Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2015.

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• The only person that can give up on you is yourself. People will always say no but you gotta keep trying. As long as you are above the ground there's opportunity. Utilize your time and be serious about your craft. Don't forget to PRACTICE! Be serious about your goals. Understand you have to be talented. Don't seek the impossible be realistic!

  Tamar Braxton

  Opportunity, Practice, Long

  "Tamar Braxton Spotted at Camp Creek DTLR for “Love and War” In Store CD Signing". Interview with Ramona Debreaux, freddyo.com. September 16, 2013.

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• When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.

  Nick Vujicic

  Suicide, Years, Asking Why

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• At any moment I could give up, but I haven't because love for me is an indispensable structure for being.

  Masha Tupitsyn

  Moments, Structure, Indispensable

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• If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an asshole because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic.

  Jerry Stahl

  Drug, Excuse, Junkie

  "Jerry Stahl Talks Smack". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 25, 2013.

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• I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sympathy, Heart, Kissing

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.82

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• It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.

  Hosea Ballou

  Sacrifice, Add, Stores

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• I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

  Margaret Millar

  Afterlife, Mind, Return

  J.J. MARRIC; MARGARET MILLAR; BILL KNOX (1977). “GIDEON'S DRIVE; ASK FOR ME TOMORROW; HELLSPOUT”

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• Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Taken, Greater

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• He alone fails who gives up and lies down.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Lying, Giving, Failing

  Ralph Waldo Trine (2013). “In Tune with the Infinite”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• ... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.

  Margaret Halsey

  Self, Alcohol, Cigarette

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• Never give up. The bankers and financial people did not take me seriously initially. Everyone thought I would fail. My attitude was that 'No' is an unacceptable answer when it comes to financing.

  Debbi Fields

  Attitude, People, Bankers

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• ... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

  Fanny Burney

  Giving, Way, Remarks

  Fanny Burney (1796). “Camilla: Or, a Picture of Youth”, p.220

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• I would give up my life for my children, but not myself.

  Kate Chopin

  Children, Self, Giving

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• The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

  Louis C. K.

  Don't Give Up, Get Better, Bad Times

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• I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

  Delia Ephron

  Worry, Want, Able

  Delia Ephron (2013). “Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. ... Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Lying, Men, Civilization

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• You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Faith, Use, Might

  Jennifer Hudson (2012). “I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down”, p.121, Penguin

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