Best Giving Up Quotes

As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.

Copyright law has got to give up its obsession with ‘the copy.’ The law should not regulate ‘copies’ or ‘modern reproductions’ on their own. It should instead regulate uses–like public distributions of copies of copyrighted work–that connect directly to the economic incentive copyright law was intended to foster.

There’s times you want to give up and times you want to move on … you get so much satisfaction out of staying and sticking with it, and seeing things turn around.

I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don’t give up.

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

I don’t give up, and I make sure to keep my standards high.

Never give up. Don’t let good ideas be buried with you. Breathe it. Dream it.
Live it and relentlessly pursue your ideas and ideals.
Without them you cannot achieve anything meaningful in life.

Altruism has always been one of biology’s deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?

I’m not going to give up. I can’t give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don’t give up, don’t give in. There’s always an answer to everything.

That’s why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set – the set of people who don’t give up.

I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it’s all about stamina before you ever end up on set!

Those who give up cannot gain victory.

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

Never give up. In the end it’ll all be worth it.

It is the only point of getting up every morning: to paint, to make something good, to make something even better than before, not to give up, to compete, to be ambitious.

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected – involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

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.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

If you’re into writing and making people laugh, or just want to video blog something, you should get a simple digital video camera. And all computers now come with an easy video editing software program. Just mess around with that for a little bit, try to figure it out, then just put stuff online and have fun. Never give up!

I’d made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

I’m a fighter through and through. I don’t give up. I have a strong heart and I will push until there’s nothing left in me.

You can never give up. With love, anything is possible.

Basketball isn’t easy. All my life I’ve been striving to make myself better. It’s a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to work the hardest. You have to chase what seems impossible over and over and over again, because giving up is not an option, and when you feel like you’ve reached your limit, it’s only the beginning, that’s when the time to dig deep, to find the courage to push some more, because if you’ve got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.

I used to buy everything at garage sales. It was hard to give up! I’d be like, ‘But this crazy sweater is amazing, and it only cost 25 cents!’?

My stories are of gas chambers, shootings, electrified fences, torture, scorching sun, mental abuse, and constant threat of death. But they are also stories of faith, hope, triumph, and love. They are stories of perseverance, loyalty, courage in the face of overwhelming odds, and of never giving up!

Charlie didn’t want to give up meat and smoking. Now he’s gone.

The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they’re never going to give up on the client, they’re going to defend people.