Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morgan Freeman

The main thing about awards in movies is that they can serve as an economic surge for the film. If you're movie gets nominated for any award it does it a big favour. People might go and see it again... they won't give up on it.

Marat Safin

Never give up. Last year I was trying to give up but I couldn't.

Marat Safin

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

Marcel Proust

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us—even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will. We see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever. Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won’t, for He sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

There is no defeat except for those who give up.

Jose Saramago

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

Jorge Valdano

Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.

Joni Mitchell

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

Kevin Bacon

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.

Katie Aselton

That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

Jo Brand

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

John C. Maxwell

The trials and pressures of life--and how we face them--often define us. Confronted by adversity, many people give up while others rise up. How do those who succeed do it? They persevere. They find the benefit to them personally that comes from any trial. And they recognize that the best thing about adversity is coming out on the other side of it. There is a sweetness to overcoming your troubles and finding something good in the process, however small it may be. Giving up when adversity threatens can make a person bitter. Persevering through adversity makes one better.

James Taylor

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

James Surowiecki

Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.

Norman Vincent Peale

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Emile M. Cioran

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

Emily Dickinson

I do not feel I could give up all for Christ, were I called to die.

Emeril Lagasse

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

Ellis Peters

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.

Edward St Aubyn

Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

Holly Black

If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

Henry Van Dyke

Christ never asks us to give up merely for the sake of giving up, but always in order to win something better.

Henri Nouwen

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin; only in the place of healing do we dare to show our wounds; only with a single-minded attention to Christ can we give up our clinging fears and face our own true nature. Solitude is a place where Christ remodels us in his own image and frees us from the victimizing compulsions of the world.

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.

Heath Ledger

Never give up on what makes you smile

Heston Blumenthal

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security.

Helen Rowland

To a man, marriage means giving up four out of five of the chiffonier drawers; to a woman, giving up four out of five of her opinions.

Henry Cloud

To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

Helen Thomas

I'm decrepit but I don't want to give up, and I love my work.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.

Kurt Busch

That's what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us.