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Giving Up Quotes - Page 32

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.119, W. W. Norton & Company

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

Paul Hawken's Commencement Address to the Class at the University of Portland, www.commondreams.org. May 3, 2009.

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.

Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning. The citizen of the world”, p.467

Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about.

"Interview with Nas | The legendary rapper on never giving up and chasing your dreams". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.

Sebastian Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1968). “The Mendelssohn family 1729-1847: from letters and journals”