Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paris Hilton

Never give up on the things that make you smile.

Lauren Oliver

At a certain point your brain stops to rationalize things. At a certain point it gives up, shuts off, shuts down.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

Bear Bryant

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

Bernie Siegel

I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.

Pete Carroll

It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.

Paulo Coelho

The mere possibility of getting what we want fills the soul of the ordinary person with guilt. We look around at all those who have failed to get what they want and feel that we do not deserve to get what we want either. We forget about all the obstacles we overcame, all the suffering we endured, all the things we had to give up in order to get this far...

Paulo Coelho

Finding one important thing in your life doesn’t mean you have to give up all the other important things.

Paulo Coelho

Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.

Paulo Coelho

Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door.

Paulo Coelho

Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.

The most common trait I have found in all successful people is that they have conquered the temptation to give up.

Quico Canseco

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

Questlove

It's a funny word, persistence. It means not giving up, but it also means just passing on through time.

Questlove

Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.

Mother Teresa

Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

Terry Goodkind

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

Lesley Stahl

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

Neil Peart

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

Lisa Gardner

Whomever speaks first gives up some power.

Pema Chodron

When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to call resting with the discomfort “the detox period,” because when you don’t act on your habitual patterns, it’s like giving up an addiction. You’re left with the feelings you were trying to escape. The practice is to make a wholehearted relationship with that

Peter Coyote

Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you're going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

Peter Capaldi

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

Lee H. Hamilton

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

Larry Niven

Sometimes there's no point in giving up.

Elizabeth Gilbert

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

Louis Zamperini

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

Emma Stone

You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think, 'I can't do something because of this, this and this,' you can actually do anything you want. I could go ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart. I could. I'm not going to, because logic is stopping me, but you can do whatever you want. You really can veer off any path at any time - never give up.

Emma Goldman

What will you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?' No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every men would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged.

Gary Cole

But for me, you also have to be conscious of what is going to play. And that includes playing with. Sometimes it's just a vibe. It's what's going to make this scene work. And sometimes there may be something that restricts you that has to do with something that maybe is historically accurate. And then you have to weigh that decision and give up something for a scene to work.

Heikki Kovalainen

I am quite a relaxed person out of the car, but in the car I am aggressive, I never give up, I fight to the end and I try 100% all the time.