Famous Quotes & Sayings

Seth

We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.

Lewis Thomas

Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?

Lesley Stahl

Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.

Leonard Mlodinow

That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.

Lemmy Kilmister

My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

Len Wein

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Neil Peart

And the men who hold high places must be the ones who start to mold a new reality closer to the heart.

Vanna Bonta

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Vaclav Havel

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

Utah Phillips

You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed.

Susana Martinez

My parents taught me to never give up and to always believe that my future could be whatever I dreamt it to be.

Suzanne Collins

The main thing I feel is a sense of relief. That I can give up this game. That the question of whether I can succeed in this venture has been answered, even if that answer is a resounding no. That if desperate times call for desperate measures, I am free to act as desperately as I want.

Suzanne Collins

There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

Suzanne Collins

I will never give up if you never give in.

Sophie Kinsella

Never give up on something you really want. However impossible things seem, there's always a way.

Stephen King

How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?

Stephen King

the only mortal sin is giving up.

Stephen King

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

Stephanie Seymour

I did everything young. I was always in a hurry to do everything. I had kids young and I worked young and I didn't have time to go back to school because I wasn't willing to give up anything that I had.

Solomon Burke

Im still amazed people remembered and didnt give up on me.

Marcus Garvey

We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself.

Marcus Aurelius

Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

Marcus Aurelius

You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.

Marcus Aurelius

Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.

Marc Jacobs

What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.

Thomas a Kempis

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest.

Sheryl Crow

Then not everything is gonna be the way you think it oughta be. It seems like everytime I try to make it right, it all comes down on me. Please say honestly you won't give up on me, and I shall believe.

Sharon Salzberg

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.

Shane West

I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop

Shane Warne

Never give up; just absolutely never give up.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Lasting peace is sought, it is essential to adopt international measures to improve the lot of the masses. The welfare of the entire human race must replace hunger and oppression. People of the world must be taught to give up envy, avarice and rancour.

Taya Kyle

Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me.

Tamar Braxton

The only person that can give up on you is yourself. People will always say no but you gotta keep trying. As long as you are above the ground there's opportunity. Utilize your time and be serious about your craft. Don't forget to PRACTICE! Be serious about your goals. Understand you have to be talented. Don't seek the impossible be realistic!