Best Giving Up Quotes

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.

To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

We have the misconception that competitiveness means winning at all costs, but that’s not what competition is. Competition is just doing your best and not giving up. We all face a moment in a race or in a competition in which we want to give up. We can either give in and not keep pushing, or we can charge forward and work through it.

That’s one thing you learn in sports. You don’t give up; you fight to the finish.

If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

Never give up, no matter what.

I could wish there were a treaty made between the French and the English theatres, in which both parties should make considerableconcessions. The English ought to give up their notorious violations of the unities, and all their massacres, racks, dead bodies, and mangled carcasses, which they so frequently exhibit upon their stage. The French should engage to have more action, and less declamation, and not to cram and to crowd things together to almost a degree of impossibility from a too scrupulous adherence to the unities.

When you’ve got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

I was never ready to give up, but I did get words of confidence to move forward from a few musicians that had climbed up the totem pole of rock. They were encouraging words that struck a nerve with me and made me stronger.

I could give up chocolate but I’m not a quitter.

Every tribe needs a good front man to sell the program. Who better to convince the Middle East to give up the oil, than a brown man with a Muslim name?

I believe that a person should take an affirmative outlook. There are always problems in life, old and new, uncertainties, and unexpected contingencies. The optimal way to deal with this is not to give up in despair, but to move ahead using the best intelligence and resources that we have to overcome adversity.

Family law is institutionally anti-male. I’ve been lobbying MPs, and I’m not going to give up campaigning for equality until I get equality.

We’re beginning to play God and get into cloning. We give up quickly. Divorce is an easy option. So why not just create your own mate? Synthesize a human being. You get tired of it, turn it off and put it in the closet like the vacuum cleaner.

When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine…Vengeance is our own pleasure of seeing someone who hurt us getting it back and then some. Justice, on the other hand, is secure when someone pays a fair penalty for wronging another even if the injured person takes no pleasure in the transaction. Vengeance is personal satisfaction. Justice is moral accounting…Human forgiveness does not do away with human justice.

Instead of just getting old and giving up and dying, let’s learn to make a huge contribution to life.

If an artist does not have an erotic involvement with everything that he sees, he may as well give up. To be a human being may a very messy thing, but to be an artist is something else entirely, because art is religion, art is sex, art is society. Art is everything.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.

If you don’t give up, eventually you will break the cycle and you will overcome any obstacle.

There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds of their characters work, or to set aside the opportunity to provide necessary background exposition in a succinct fashion.

We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

The correct scientific response to something that is not understood must always be to look harder for the explanation, not give up and assume a supernatural cause.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

In a big picture sense, it’s more national prestige that we’re risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but as we were talking earlier, the average American doesn’t think that much about it right now. So, it may seem like something we could just give up and not really worry about it, but I think it starts creeping into the national psyche. If American astronauts have to hitch rides with the Russians or other nations in the future.

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

Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That’s OK. Don’t give up.

I do identify with Olympic athletes quite a lot because they have to push to reach a certain plateau and some of them go on and some of them give up and some art – you know, some people are very talented in art and do a few amazing things and then give it up and go on and do other things, and others are in it for the long haul, more or less long-distance runners.

We try so hard to hold onto our stuff. We call it our treasure and expect to feel joy. But in God’s economy if we want to gain, we must give up. For joy won’t ever be found in collecting treasures. Joy radiates in our life only when we share our treasures.

I often feel I am being burned at the stake just because I have always refused to give up that wonderful strange power I have inside me that becomes manifested when I am in harmonious communication with some other inspired being.

I’m not trying to be cocky, but I set such a high standard for myself. I’m not happy when I pitch seven innings and give up two runs and get a win.

Those who give up cannot gain victory. It’s not victory that is so important, but the fighting spirit. Even if you fail, I think even just the attitude of not giving up is beautiful in itself.

I recommend a balance between the therapies that are available, the medicines that are available but not to give up on the body as a result.