Just Give Up Quotes - Page 4

• Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.

  Ai Yazawa

  Giving Up, Winning, Life Is

  "Nana". Manga series by Ai Yazawa, July 2000 – June 2009.

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• Are you sure you want me to go after Christina? Lately I've kind of thought I might just give up on that. Plus, didn't you and I need to gaze into each other's eyes first? How will I know how to gaze at Christina? And my pebble kicking? Disaster.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Giving Up, Eye, Needs

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• I know. I seriously need to just give up men entirely. I wonder if Episcopalians can enter convents?

  Meg Cabot

  Giving Up, Men, Needs

  Meg Cabot (2008). “Tommy Sullivan is a Freak”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

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• It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus,” and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come.

  John Green

  Giving Up, Real, Keys

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.251, Penguin

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• If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving Up, Memories, Brain

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• Clinton's resilience became sort of the secret weapon of the campaign. He was never going to just give up and get out.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Giving Up, Secret, Resilience

  Interview with Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance, www.pbs.org. February 20, 2012.

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• Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.

  Fred Rogers

  Giving Up, Thinking, People

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• The faith of Christ offers no buttons to push for quick service. The new order must wait the Lord's own time, and that is too much for the man in a hurry. He just gives up and becomes interested in something else.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Giving Up, Men, Order

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• They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they’re all lazy or weak of spirit. That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can’t learn and won’t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely. That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else’s problem to take care of.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Giving Up, Home

  Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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• They were so clever finding ways to get me the ball. They had to do more than just give up open shots. They had to avoid fouls and pass me the ball in traffic.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Giving Up, Clever

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• I wanted to escape so badly. But of course I knew I couldn't just give up and leave school. It was only when I heard my mom's voice that I came out of my hiding place.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Mom, Mother, Giving Up

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• Eventually you're supposed to get so confounded by this whole thing that you just give up completely, and that's when it starts to work. Not give up the practice, but give up trying to figure it out.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving Up, Buddhism, Practice

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• Never complain. When I did, my mother said that if I didn’t like my life, I could just give up and die. She reminded me that when I was inside her, I told her that I wanted to be born, so she delivered me, breastfed me and changed my diapers. She said that I had to be brave.

  Hiroo Onoda

  Mother, Giving Up, Brave

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• Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Death, Giving Up, Guy

  Song: Racing in the Street, Album: Darkness On The Edge Of Town, 1978

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• A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it cancels out the thing that set them apart.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Giving Up, Careers, Guy

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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

  Giving Up, School, Thinking

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• I guess the prime example is in North America there's a thing where if there's no opportunity to move forward with the puck, then a [hockey] player is told to dump the puck into the other zone. Just give up the puck and dump it in. Give it to the other team. And to the Soviet mentality in coaching, it just doesn't make any sense. If you're a skilled player, why are you going to give the puck away to the other team? Just give it away, right?

  Gabe Polsky

  Giving Up, Team, Moving

  Source: collider.com

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• There are things which are without answers, and there is nobody who can explain them. Either we feel them and sense them, or not. Sometimes we just give up and carry on.

  Andrey Zvyagintsev

  Giving Up, Answers, Sometimes

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like a normal person or sleep, if you want it hard enough and do it well enough, it happens. A lot of really talented people either sort of get crushed under the wheel of the movie studio system or desperately try and get their next gig in TV. I understand why, because we've all got to put food on the table and the brass ring is out there, we'd all like to be making the Emmy-winning shows and the blockbusters and all that, but at the same time you could be doing stuff yourself.

  Joss Whedon

  Giving Up, Sleep, Winning

  Source: www.complex.com

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• It matters if you don't just give up.

  Stephen Hawking

  Giving Up, Matter, Ifs

  "Attributed to Stephen Hawking in "Going Within" by Shirley MacLaine (p. 303)". 1990.

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• If you’re the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you’re that kind of person, you’ll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Giving Up

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.45, Robert Kiyosaki

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• The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.

  Rivka Galchen

  Giving Up, Writing, Flames

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• ‘Cause sometimes you just feel tired, feel weak
  And when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up
  But you gotta search within you
  And gotta find that inner strength
  And just pull that shit out of you
  And get that motivation to not give up
  And not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face, and collapse.

  Eminem

  Giving Up, Motivation, Fall

  "'Till I Collapse". Song by Marshall Mathers, Nathaniel Hale, Brian May, Luis Resto, 2002.

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