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  • Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. -- Marilyn vos Savant
  • Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. -- Anna Quindlen
  • Never give up on anybody. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
  • Never give in and never give up. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
  • Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't. -- David Boreanaz
  • It is never too late to give up our prejudices. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • You just can't beat the person who never gives up. -- Babe Ruth
  • Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. -- John D. Rockefeller
  • Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. -- John Wooden
  • Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. -- Joe Biden
  • If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long. -- Hayley Williams
  • For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. -- Alice Walker
  • Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. -- Satchel Paige
  • If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds. -- Jesse Jackson
  • If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it. -- Michael Jordan
  • They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. -- Mark Twain
  • There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly. -- Dean Ornish
  • God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. -- Chester W. Nimitz
  • Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. -- Earl Nightingale
  • What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going. -- Patrick Swayze
  • For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. -- Edward T. Hall
  • Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. -- Samuel Ullman
  • 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
  • The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. -- Arianna Huffington
  • Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential. -- Les Brown
  • 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. -- Marc Jacobs
  • I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people. -- LL Cool J
  • It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. -- George Eliot
  • Growing Stronger' emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up. -- Thalia
  • I'm like, over love. Crush, smush. I can't. I'm giving up on love at this point. I'm hoping for a crush. Actually, no. I don't want a crush. I want someone to crush on me. -- Xosha Roquemore
  • Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times. -- Aimee Mullins
  • I have a motto on my bedroom wall: 'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.' Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that's worthwhile. -- Chris Burke
  • 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. -- Sachin Tendulkar
  • When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. -- Keith Henson
  • Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up. -- Pete Earley
  • 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. -- Elia Kazan
  • My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly. -- Pancho Villa
  • You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again. -- Nicole Scherzinger
  • The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness. -- Lakshmi Mittal
  • Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments' ability to protect the rights of their own people. -- Noreena Hertz
  • For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts. -- Naomi Wolf
  • Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken. -- Hoda Kotb
  • I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to. -- Ayumi Hamasaki
  • Giving up also takes courage. -- Joanne Crisner Alcayaga
  • Giving up is the greatest failure. -- Jack Ma
  • Giving opens up avenues for abundance. -- Jen Lilley
  • Giving up is the ultimate tragedy. -- Robert J. Donovan
  • Giving up is what kills people. -- Kohta Hirano
  • Giving up was never an option -- Lance Armstrong
  • The only failure is giving up. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • The only mortal sin is giving up." -- Stephen King
  • There's always some relief in giving up. -- Lauren Oliver
  • the only mortal sin is giving up. -- Stephen King
  • I'm neither giving up nor giving in. -- Charlton Heston
  • Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. -- Thomas A. Edison
  • Sometimes there's no point in giving up. -- Larry Niven
  • Difficulties can be overcome by not giving up. -- Yunho
  • Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do. -- Niki Lauda
  • Some days success just means not giving up. -- Steve Roggenbuck
  • I think about giving up. I almost do. -- Anchee Min
  • The greatest sin is fear and giving up. -- Nas
  • For me giving up is way harder than trying. -- Kanye West
  • Tamaki: You're the one giving up without even trying. -- Bisco Hatori
  • It's like giving up a belief in Santa Claus. -- Burton Malkiel
  • Giving up is the only sure way to fail. -- Gena Showalter
  • Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up. -- Mitch Albom
  • Love is selfless. The key is giving up yourself. -- Zac Hanson
  • Death is not fearful. What's fearful is giving up. -- Aya Kito
  • Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up. -- Colin Powell
  • Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better. -- Louis Mann
  • Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul. -- Douglas MacArthur
  • Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better. -- Stephen Covey
  • I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning. -- Nicki Minaj
  • Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible. -- John Wesley
  • Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way. -- Oscar Wilde
  • I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies. -- Stanislav Grof
  • Is your place in heaven worth giving up these kisses -- Tori Amos
  • The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity. -- Colum McCann
  • Over and over I'm on the point of giving it up. -- Beatrice Wood
  • believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic. -- Seth Godin
  • but accepting help doesn"?t have to mean giving up control. -- Sarah Dessen
  • Being discouraged is natural but giving up is not an option. -- Court Young
  • The single biggest mistake, I think, is giving up too soon. -- John Kremer
  • I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop. -- Shane West
  • A certain giving up of control is good for the soul. -- Tracy Letts
  • I'm not giving up acting, I'm definitely not going to stop -- Shane West
  • I never said it would be easy. Giving up is easy. -- Maria V. Snyder
  • Giving up my heels was harder than giving up the drugs. -- Donatella Versace
  • I'm giving up on love cause love's given up on me. -- Miranda Lambert
  • It's worth it. It's worth giving up the sun and magic. -- Richelle Mead
  • I'm not giving up on life. I'm giving up on today. -- Dane Cook
  • Thank you guys. Thank you for never giving up on me. -- John Cena
  • Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up. -- W.S. Gilbert
  • Discipline is giving yourself a command and following it up with action -- Bob Proctor
  • The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Giving up your ego is the shortest way to unification with nature. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
  • I know what I'm giving up for Lent: my New Year's resolutions. -- Henny Youngman
  • Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up. -- Megan Hart
  • Giving people a hand up, not a handout, is the way forward. -- Hugh Jackman
  • Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. -- Anne Lamott
  • I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover. -- Sandra Bullock
  • I'm happy 'bout life. Still trying. I ain't giving up on life. -- Leon Spinks
  • when it seems like giving up, then it seems like rising up -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  • One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
  • I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. -- Harrison Ford
  • Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more. -- Dan Millman
  • Strength is not only about winning the game; it's also about not giving-up. -- Vikrmn
  • I can't tell the difference," I said. "Between not fighting and giving up. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow. -- Victor Hugo
  • Life is not about giving up or giving in. Life is about giving. -- Anthony D. Williams
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  • You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them -- Austin Carlile
  • You can Light Up the Whole World by Giving without any Expectation Back. -- Wayne Dyer
  • Giving up pride means giving all credit and glory to Guru and Krishna. -- Radhanath Swami
  • If you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small -- Joel Osteen
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