Browsing Topic Best Gave Up Quotes

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

It’s the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances.

If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

I used to love to untangle chains when I was a child. I had thin, busy fingers, and I never gave up. Perhaps there was a psychiatric component to my concentration but like much of my psychic damage, this worked to everyone’s advantage.

I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

Reading isn’t good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn’t hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it’s a phantom chase.

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

The search for the new black is one of the most elusive quests known to man. It’s rumored that Christopher Columbus once searched for the new black and simply gave up. Yet every season we are convinced that some magical chromatic fabric will usurp black as the king of fashion, only to realize later that black still reigns supreme.

When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn’t do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.

When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.

I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

Declaring victory without war .. the belief that India gave up the option of war under American pressure is totally wrong.

I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man’s Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I’d give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album.

…I gave up on being a journalist – I thought having a point of view was more important than being objective.

I’ve had to come through a lot and I’ve made a lot of different mistakes, but I realized that I never gave up. I wanted to so badly.

Many years ago I found out something about hamburgers that really grossed me out. You may not know this, so I hope I don’t make you sick, but it turns out hamburgers are actually made out of dead cows. I am not making this up. Needless to say, as soon as I discovered that, I gave up meat entirely.

A loss, but who still mourns the breath of one woman, or laments one wife? Though my heart never can forget, how, for one look, she gave up her life.

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success.

Just, you never know what the next day is going to bring. That goes for football, goes for off the field, and I gave up a long time ago trying to predict the future and trying to deal with things I couldn’t deal with.

Temporarily in 1934 I became a department head in the German Labor Front and dealt with the improvement of labor conditions in German factories. Then I was in charge of public works on the staff of Hess. I gave up both these activities in 1941.

I didn’t accept your sacrifice. I turned it down. I felt a small Oh form at my mouth, but it never quite made it past my lips. Are you saying you gave up getting a human body for me?

I gave up my struggle with perfection a long time ago. That is a concept I don’t find very interesting anymore. Everyone just wants to look good in the photographs. I think that is where some of the pressure comes from. Be happy. Be yourself, the day is about a lot more.

Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.

Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside of a bush in late summer, viewing it as a sign of the unexpected munificence of a divine creator, but we became modern when we gave up on awaiting sporadic gifts from above and sought to render any pleasing sensation immediately and repeatedly available.

I gave up my childhood for a career.