Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Seligman

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

Peter Diamandis

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck.

Peter Diamandis

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

Paulo Coelho

Love is only a word, until we decide to let it possess us with all its force. Love is only a word, until someone arrives to give it meaning. Don't give up. Remember, it's always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.

Paulo Coelho

you would have to give up all else, I alone would expect you to be your sole and exclusive standard

Marissa Mayer

Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.

Marissa Mayer

I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.

Mariah Carey

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

Max Lucado

You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.

Max Lucado

God would rather give up His son..than give up on us

Max Lucado

For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up until he wins him back. God will whisper. He will shout. He will touch and tug. He will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. If there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. Please understand. His goal is not to make you happy. His goal is to make you His. His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need.

Matt Martin

If your plan isn't working, adjust your plan. Never give up.

Matt Ridley

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.

Maya Angelou

I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

Mattie Stepanek

Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up.

Michael Buble

I might have to wait. I'll never give up. I guess it's half timing, and the other half's luck. Wherever you are, whenever it's right, you'll come out of nowhere and into my life.

Melanne Verveer

We must find opportunities to make change happen - we must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

Masashi Kishimoto

If that is what this world is, what humans are... There is no future. Understanding and faith... If you take those away, all that's left is fear. I can't accept immoral methods or giving up.

Masashi Kishimoto

Give up trying to make me give up

Masashi Kishimoto

There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give up

Masashi Kishimoto

The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.

Masashi Kishimoto

So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know..... what truly matters....

Masashi Kishimoto

I'm just being selfish..... I'm here on my own free will... I used to always cry and give up... I nearly went the wrong way... But you... You showed me the right way... I was always chasing you... Wanting to overtake you... I just wanted to walk with you... I wanted to be with you... You changed me! Your smile saved me! So I'm not afraid to die protecting you!!! Because I-- Love You...

Mason Cooley

Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?

Mary Antin

Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.

Michael Chabon

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

Michel Houellebecq

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.

Michael J. Fox

I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.

Michael Jordan

If I have something and move forward, it is only my weakness, which I hate and turn into my strength. You are not lost as long as you do not give up!

Ted Cruz

President Obama fuels that perception. That will change when militants across the globe see that when you join ISIS that you are giving up your life, you are signing your death warrant.

Theodore Roethke

Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath.

Theodore Kaczynski

Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.

Theodor Adorno

The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.