Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carlin

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

Garth Stein

I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath on his skin, and I could have said to him, "This is just a crisis. A flash! A single match struck against the implacable darkness of time! You are the one who taught me to never give up. You taught me that new possibilities emerge for those who are prepared, for those who are ready. You have to believe!

Gail Devers

You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time.

Gail Sheehy

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

Frederick Buechner

It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang" - I've never reached that point in my life.

Fantasia Barrino

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

Fanny Burney

... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

Faith Popcorn

We can never give up the belief that the good guys always win. And that we are the good guys.

Fannie Flagg

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

Ezra Pound

As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

Ezra Taft Benson

We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor. In this way he can bring discouragement and surrender. But we must not lose hope. The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him. Though we may see that we have far to go on the road to perfection, we must not give up hope.

Evanna Lynch

Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.

Eve Ensler

I live with that contradiction daily. It is a constant struggle. I struggle very deeply. I don't think I've said this to anyone, but I've wondered if I just want to give up this world and live in the Congo and just be there. But I don't think that's what they need from me

Eve Ensler

Looking at it, I started crying. Maybe it was knowing that I had to give up the fantasy, the enormous life consuming fantasy , that someone or something was going to do this for me – the fantasy that someone was coming to lead my life, to choose direction, to give me orgasms.

Erykah Badu

What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

Henry Miller

At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.

Henry Miller

I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must writer and write and write, even if everybody in the world advises you against it, even if nobody believes in you.

Henning Mankell

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Henny Youngman

A motel is where you give up good dollars for bad quarters.

Henri Frederic Amiel

He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed; out distanced, crushed; he who ceases t grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end.

Helen Keller

Do not think of todays failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

Cat Power

Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

Catharine Beecher

... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves.

Cassandra Clare

As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.

George Eliot

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

Jaromir Jagr

You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

Jared Padalecki

When life beats you down, NEVER give up.

Jared Leto

Impossible is possible if you put your mind into it and don't give up.

Jane Rule

Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.

Jane Bryant Quinn

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

Erin Gray

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

Erin Andrews

To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

Cassandra Clare

Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.