Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain de Botton

What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we're truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

Aimee Mullins

Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Charles Darwin

I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.

Blaise Pascal

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

Bill Hicks

I've had good times on drugs...bad times on drugs...But I've had good and bad relationships...and I'm not giving up pussy.

Eckhart Tolle

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

Eckhart Tolle

Give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting...snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be and enjoy being.

Eckhart Tolle

Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Eckhart Tolle

There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.

Elihu Root

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.

Elie Wiesel

In order to fly, you have to give up the ground you are standing on.

Brigitte Nielsen

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

Brian McKnight

I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the numbers, but it's hard to give up the freedom of being able to do whatever you want.

Brett Somers

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Brandon Sanderson

Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist—I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.

Brandon Sanderson

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

Brandon Sanderson

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

There is but one secret to success: never give up.

Barbara Lee

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Ashley Young

If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.

Baruch Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Bea Arthur

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

Bear Bryant

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

Bear Bryant

Don't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left.

Bear Bryant

I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.

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.

Bruce Springsteen

You've always got to remember, rock and roll's never been about giving up. For me, for a lot of kids, it was a totally positive force... not optimistic all the time, but positive. It was never--never--a bout surrender.

Brian Tracy

Remember, you only have to succeed the last time.

Brian Tracy

You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.