Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.

Eli Manning

You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.

Elia Kazan

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

Ashleigh Brilliant

At what point in my struggle with nature will nature finally give up?

Ashleigh Brilliant

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world. ... I look askance at any movement which assists in making the peacemaker among nations merely a national warrior.

Bea Arthur

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

Bear Bryant

Don't ever give up on ability. Don't give up on a player who has it.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up. Reach down inside of you and you'll find something left.

Bear Bryant

I'll never give up on a player regardless of his ability as long as he never gives up on himself. In time he will develop.

Bernie Siegel

I see people who die a few minutes after a doctor tells them there is no hope of a cure. They give up and go. Others get angry and find joy in proving the doctor wrong. Something within them is challenged and hopeful. Hope is the divine motivator.

Brigitte Nielsen

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.

Brian McKnight

I'm constantly being courted by labels and their backing. Obviously the market is there when you talk about the economics and the numbers, but it's hard to give up the freedom of being able to do whatever you want.

Brett Somers

I had to give up martinis - I enjoyed them too much.

Brandon Sanderson

Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist—I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.

Brandon Sanderson

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.

Brandon Sanderson

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

There is but one secret to success: never give up.

Barbara Lee

I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we're getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.

Barbara Kingsolver

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up.

Ashley Young

If you can't find it in your own heart to be compassionate look in someone else's before giving up on love altogether.

Baruch Spinoza

The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.

Augusten Burroughs

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

Art Modell

I never give up on my players, and I'll never give up on people.

Ayn Rand

Man cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Ayn Rand

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

Aubrey Plaza

It's weird, huh? It's like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.

Aristotle

The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state.

Earl Nightingale

Men credited with all kinds of ability, talent, brains and know how, including the ability to see into the future, frequently have nothing more than the courage to keep everlastingly at what they set out to do. They have that one great quality that is worth more than all the rest put together. They simply will not give up! When a man makes up his mind to do something then it's only a matter of time. Staying with time take bulldog persistence. This seems to be the entrance examination to success - lasting success -- of any kind!

Deepak Chopra

In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

Deepak Chopra

Never give up hope. Know that you are loved.

Abdul Kalam

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.