Giving Up Quotes - Page 59

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.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

If your body wants comfort, you try to make it learn to give up that. Try to make your body your slave and not you the slave of the body.

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

To surrender is not giving up the struggle, but finding peace within the struggle.

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

The most important talent for a shinobi is not the numberof jutsu. The important thing is... HAVING THE GUTS TO NEVER GIVE UP.

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.

If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

Fair play to all those who dare to dream and don't give up.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist.

... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.

Persistence is the quality of winners. Successful people never, never give up.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.

I'm a fighter through and through. I don't give up. I have a strong heart and I will push until there's nothing left in me.

Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.

We forgive when we give up attachment to our wounds.

Talent doesn't appear over night. It takes a lot of work and honing your craft, but also don't give up because people may say you're not good enough. I had so many teachers in high school and college saying "You're not going to make it. You're not. You can't." Luckily I had enough people around me who said I could.

Giving up was never an option

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.

I'm not an executive. I can do it, I have the mind for it, but there's a life that you have to lead, and you have to give up your creative freedom. That's what I don't want to give up.