Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Mariano

Sometimes when the going gets tough, people give up.

Richard Louv

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.

Richard M. Nixon

You must never give up. You must remember that you have to take risks in order to achieve anything and sometimes you will suffer defeat. But the mark of any individual is to recover from defeat and disappointment and go on and give it his best shot.

Rian Johnson

The only advice I can really give to the young filmmakers is to be persistent, don't give up, and keep watching and making as many movies as you possibly can.

Rian Johnson

The momentum of production keeps you from giving up, so it's really the editing and writing phases where things can look bleakest.

Richard Flanagan

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

Richard Ford

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

Robert D. Kaplan

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

Roald Dahl

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.

Rob Bell

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves.

Richard Krajicek

Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him.

Tullian Tchividjian

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

Tupac Shakur

I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game.

Tupac Shakur

You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.

Tracy Letts

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

Tori Amos

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

Tori Amos

Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses

Vanessa Hudgens

My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don't give up!

Tracie Peterson

love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

Robert Green Ingersoll

To give up your individuality is to annihilate yourself.

Rudy Giuliani

I asked Secretary [Robert] Gates, what did they get in return for giving up the nuclear shield of Poland and the Czech Republic? And you know what his answer was? Nada. They got nothing.

Sam Altman

The thing that kills startups at some level, is the founders giving up.

Sam Altman

If you don't love and believe in what you're building, you're likely to give up at some point along the way.

Saddam Hussein

We are ready to sacrifice our souls, our children and our families so as not to give up Iraq. We say this so no one will think that America is capable of breaking the will of the Iraqis with its weapons.

Sachin Tendulkar

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

Ruth Gordon

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Ruth Gordon

To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.

Ronald Reagan

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

Robert James Waller

The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.

Robertson Davies

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

Robert Stone

The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.

Willa Cather

If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

Will Smith

The person that works the hardest wins.