159 Giving Up Quotes

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Famous Giving Up Quotes

Never give up on something you love - Ariana Grande

Never give up on something you love — Ariana Grande

You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it — Source Unknown

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do. - Niki Lauda

Giving up is something a Lauda doesn't do. — Niki Lauda

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up. — Jefferson Smith

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker. — George Eads

If you want to be given everything, give everything up. — Lao Tzu

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. — Joe Biden

At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better. — Robert Downey, Jr.

Never give in and never give up. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown. — H. Ross Perot

Never give up...never ever give up. — Jim Valvano

I have a motto: it's never too late to give up. It's never too late to give up what you are doing, and start doing what you realise you love. — Hans Rosling

Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up. — Dalai Lama

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. - Ross Perot

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. — Ross Perot

Are you willing to give up what you love, for who you love? — Big Sean

Short Giving Up Quotes

  • Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. — Thomas A. Edison
  • Don't give up. Don't ever give up. — Jim Valvano
  • Never give up, no matter what. — Louis Zamperini
  • Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. — Marilyn vos Savant
  • Don't give up. Don't lose hope. Don't sell out. — Christopher Reeve
  • The only way to truly fail is to give up. — Nirmal Purja
  • Never quit. Never give up. — Gabby Douglas
  • When you stop hoping you start settling. — Valorie Burton
  • To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. — Jasper Johns
  • Never give up on what makes you smile — Heath Ledger

Top 10 Giving Up Quotes

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. — Thomas A. Edison

Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again. — Muhammad Ali

The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender. — DJ Khaled

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. — Earl Nightingale

Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory! — Muammar al-Gaddafi

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle. — Christian D. Larson

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up — Nelson Mandela

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective. — LeCrae

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. — Ella Fitzgerald

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth. — Kathryn Kuhlman

Giving Up Image Quotes

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - Kenny Rogers quote

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. — Kenny Rogers

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. - Toni Morrison quote

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down. — Toni Morrison

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you blame others, you give up your power to change. - Dr. Robert Anthony quote

When you blame others, you give up your power to change. — Dr. Robert Anthony

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein quote

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. - Will Rogers quote

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. — Will Rogers

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. - Toni Morrison quote

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down. — Toni Morrison

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. - Confucius quote

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. — Confucius

You just can't beat the person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth quote

You just can't beat the person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation. - Jack Nicklaus quote

Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation. — Jack Nicklaus

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. - C. S. Lewis quote

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. — C. S. Lewis

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe quote

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. - Ella Fitzgerald quote

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. — Ella Fitzgerald

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. - Rahul Dravid quote

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying. — Rahul Dravid

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. - George Edward Woodberry quote

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. — George Edward Woodberry

You can't start the next chapter of your life - Michael McMillian quote

You can't start the next chapter of your life — Michael McMillian

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up. - Wilma Mankiller quote

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up. — Wilma Mankiller

Good things come to those who wait. - Jess C Scott quote

Good things come to those who wait. — Jess C Scott

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. - RuPaul quote

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent. — RuPaul

Saturn doesn’t ask us to give up our dreams, only to make them real. - Steven Forrest quote

Saturn doesn’t ask us to give up our dreams, only to make them real. — Steven Forrest

Giving up quote Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.

When You Feel Like Giving Up Quotes

You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again. — Sojourner Truth

Lift up your eyes, discouraged one. When you feel like giving up, when they say it can't be done, it's up to you to show them why they're wrong. — Matty Mullins

When you most feel like giving up is when you most need to be keeping on. — Robin S

Giving up quote Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass away.

When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name. — Bonnie McFarlane

Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere. — Kate Beaton

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would feel like turning my back on the whole thing. But I came back and persisted. — Dee Brown

Giving up quote If you want to fly, give up everything that weights you down.
If you want to fly, give up everything that weights you down.

It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you've been there. — Linda M. Godwin

Star Wars came out when I was seven. It was so different from anything else, like peeking into the land of Oz. All you wanted to do was see it again and go back and see more of it. That feeling is not easy to reproduce. Eventually, you give up and try to recreate that feeling yourself. — Damian Loeb

I feel like 45. I don't look bad for someone my age, with my history of illnesses and operations and all those anesthetics. When they knock you out, it gives you time to catch up on your beauty sleep. — Elizabeth Taylor

Almost Giving Up Quotes

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up. — Booker T. Washington

You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose. — Brian Tracy

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. Herodotus, historian If I had to name a driving force in my life, I'd name passion every time. — Anita Roddick

Giving up quote Your silence gives consent.
Your silence gives consent.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. — Iris Murdoch

In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always stopped me in my tracks. Or if I did find my way to put a pen to paper or finger on a keyboard I'd give up after a few minutes. I'd find other things to do: Anything but writing. — Mary Garden

I think that almost all traditional institutions are sexist, and they're probably racist and homophobic, and they're all of these things. But a lot of them, like marriage, are too embedded into the culture to give up. — Jessica Valenti

Giving up quote You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf. — Liz Carpenter

Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness. — C. S. Lewis

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad. — J. D. Salinger

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad. — J.D. Salinger

Love Is Not Giving Up Quotes

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley

Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction. — John of the Cross

You are my sunrise. Your smile lights up my world. I could give anything just to see you happy. True love is not in getting things from others but in giving and sharing more and more. — William Bernhardt

Giving up quote Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.
Never push a loyal person to the point where they no longer give a damn.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away. — Stephen Hawking

When you want it the most, there's no easy way out.When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in doubt. Don't give up on your faith, love comes to those who believe it...And that's the way it is. — Celine Dion

I am a fighter. I believe in that which is right, and the truth is, I have been the Lone Ranger for the past thirty years and I will not give up the fight. I love my public and I'll fight for you. I'll continue to make personal appearances for my thousands of fans. — Clayton Moore

Giving up quote If you want to improve you self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.
If you want to improve you self-worth, stop giving other people the calculator.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You’re not weak. Your life is not defined by a letter grade, a dress size, your sexuality or anything else. You have every chance at happiness. You were not meant to suffer. You are loved. Never, ever give up. — Chris Colfer

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people. — Walt Whitman

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love. — Elizabeth Strout

Never Giving Up Quotes

There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up. — John Cena

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. - Babe Ruth

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth

Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about. - Winston Churchill

Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about. — Winston Churchill

Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major. - Kevin Gates

Never break or fold, that's what it takes to be major. — Kevin Gates

I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid. — Pope John Paul II

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option. — Mark Twain

Giving up quote Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give
Never regret a day in your life: good days give happiness, bad days give experience, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.

Living with faith and courage is something that life requires of each of us. Never, absolutely never, give up! Never give in no matter what! Fight it through! And I promise you something with all of my heart-God will help you. — Kathryn Kuhlman

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. — Theodore Kaczynski

Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. — Caroline Myss

My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off. — Gabby Douglas

Not Giving Up Quotes

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 Garvey

We do not pull in and fill up. And I'll tell you why we don't. It's because I don't buy one goddamn drop of gas in the state of Michigan. We'll coast and push this goddamn car to the Ohio line before I give this state a nickel of my money. — Woody Hayes

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. — Lao Tzu

Giving up quote Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.
Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist. — Stephen Hawking

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. — Saddam Hussein

Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. — Paul the Apostle

Giving up quote When you give up remember why you started.
When you give up remember why you started.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth. — John Wesley

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme. — Adi Shankara

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. — Chester W. Nimitz

Why have you not broken from the pack? You're playing it safe. Safe aint gonna get you sh!t in this world — Stone Cold Steve Austin

Giving Up Is Not An Option Quotes

You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle - Joyce Meyer

You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle — Joyce Meyer

Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. When you find your why you'll find your way. When you develop your will you will embark on your way. Many people start; few people finish. Many people have a dream; few people achieve their dreams. — John C. Maxwell

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end. - Mary Anne Radmacher

Capture a shadow, dance with the wind, stand in a rainbow, begin at the end. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Giving up quote You have only got three choices in life: give up, give in, or give it all you've got.
You have only got three choices in life: give up, give in, or give it all you've got.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. — William Edward Hickson

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work. - William Feather

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work. — William Feather

Success is never so interesting as struggle - Willa Cather

Success is never so interesting as struggle — Willa Cather

If at first you don't succeed, try management. — Stephen Hawking

Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up. — Joyce Meyer

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength. — Chris Bradford

I have never met a successful person that was a quitter. Successful people never, ever, give up! — Donald Trump

Giving Up On Love Quotes

If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you. You should never stop believing in something, and you shouldn’t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise. Never give up on something you love. — Ariana Grande

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love. — Sonia Sanchez

I honestly didn't think miracles could ever come from my broken pieces, and I was disabled in fear that my dreams would always remain as dreams. Don't give up on you. Don't give up on God. Don't give up on love. — Nick Vujicic

Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love — Marc Chagall

Don't give up on the people you love. Your patient love and faithfulness may be exactly what they need to make a complete turnaround. — Joyce Meyer

We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be. — Grant Morrison

When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope. — Pittacus Lore

To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy. — Leonardo DiCaprio

Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed. — Shauna Niequist

I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me. — Jeanette Winterson

Not Giving Up Hope Quotes

Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it. — Samuel Adams

Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life. — Sri Chinmoy

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. — Emil Brunner

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself. — Sidney Sheldon

Nothing can happen if it's not first a dream. If you have someone with a dream, if you have a motivated person with a goal and a vision, if you have someone that never gives up, who has great hope, Anything can happen. — Jim Valvano

With God, all things are possible. — Wayne Dyer

Believe in yourself when nobody else does. — Mary J. Blige

I hope to inspire everyone - especially young people, women, and young girls all over the world, and in Middle Eastern countries that do not provide women with the same opportunities as men - to not give up their dreams and to pursue them. — Anousheh Ansari

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him. — Michelangelo

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up. — Winston Churchill

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More Giving Up Quotes

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on. - John Lewis quote

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on. — John Lewis

Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer. - Percy Cerutty quote

Hard things take time to do. Impossible things take a little longer. — Percy Cerutty

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long. - Hayley Williams quote

If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long. — Hayley Williams

But ne'er the rose without the thorn. - Robert Herrick quote

But ne'er the rose without the thorn. — Robert Herrick

Keep passing the open windows. - John Irving quote

Keep passing the open windows. — John Irving

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

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

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up. - Rachel Corrie quote

Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don't give up. — Rachel Corrie

Never give up! All you have to do is try again. - Park Bom quote

Never give up! All you have to do is try again. — Park Bom

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