Giving Up Quotes
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void
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Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.
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If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you are doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking.
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I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set!
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That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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It's too easy to give up on the things that are hard to accomplish.
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You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.
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Your dreams will always be more important to you than anyone else, you can want something as much as you want but at the end of the day your mum doesn't care if your arms are 24 inches or not, but that doesn't mean you give up, chase your dreams.
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The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying...The Devil is not afraid of machinery; he is only afraid of God. And machinery without prayer is machinery without God.
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Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as he was, people just give up and go away.
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The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.
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Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.
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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.
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Implement your plans with courage and persistence. Have complete faith in your ability to succeed and never, ever give up.
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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.
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If I give up drinking, smoking, and fatty foods, I can add ten years to my life. Trouble is, I'll add it to the wrong end.
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The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
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People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.
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One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.
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There was a time when I was really going to give up acting-- right after Foxfire. I was trying to find characters with a certain strength and things going on, but I was always disappointed. Wallace was the first thing I did where I felt their ideas were better than mine.
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Don't give - give up!
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A dialogue sounds like a great idea, but we don't think the government actually wants one. The royal family lied in 2011 when they said they were ready for dialogue. Now we have suffered even more and we will not give up our rights.
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When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the re-writing of things begun and abandoned years earlier.
