Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caitlin Moran

I wish I could give up smoking, but it does taste so delicious.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

Chris Colfer

You’re not weak. Your life is not defined by a letter grade, a dress size, your sexuality or anything else. You have every chance at happiness. You were not meant to suffer. You are loved. Never, ever give up.

Chris Burke

Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.

Chris Adrian

When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork.

Chogyam Trungpa

The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything.

Cheryl Strayed

And every last one of us can do better than give up.

Cheryl Strayed

The people who don’t give up are the people who find a way to believe in abundance rather than scarcity.

Cher

If you are going to wait for someone to encourage you to do something, you just better give up.

Chanakya

One who is in search of knowledge should give up the search of pleasure and the one who is in search of pleasure should give up the search of knowledge.

Don't give up on something just because you think you can't do it.

Charles Schumer

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

Charles M. Schulz

Never, ever, ever give up.

Charles M. Schulz

I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think about today..." "No, that's giving up... I'm still hpoing that yesterday will get better.

Charles Frazier

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

Bill Belichick

For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

Bernard Malamud

I don't think you can do anything for anyone without giving up something of your own.

Benjamin Hoff

When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.

Bob Hope

I can't give up Golf, I've got too many sweaters.

Bob Hope

I'd give up golf if I didn't have so many sweaters.

Bjorn Borg

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Charlton Heston

I'm neither giving up nor giving in.

Aidan Chambers

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

Ai Weiwei

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.

Ai Weiwei

For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

John Powell

When Marconi suggested the possibility of wireless transmission of sound (the radio),he was committed to a mental institution. But people like Lincoln, Edison, and Marconi were strongly motivated. So they didn't give up. They somehow knew that the only real failure is the one from which we learn nothing. They seemed to go on the assumption that there is no failure greater than the failure of not trying, and so they continued to try in the face of repeated failures.

William Shakespeare

Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.

Bernard Cornwell

‎Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here, and they built here and they're buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bone. Ours!

Bernard Hopkins

I'm not going to give up. If you pay attention to my plan and the way I live and the way I eat, then you have a chance to extend your life a few more years.

Celia Cruz

You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public.

Carlos Fuentes

If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.

Agnes Martin

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

Carl Jung

In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea!