Give Up Quotes
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I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get married, wanting to have kids and change the way people buy office supplies. But they get into the middle and discover it was harder than they thought. They can't see the distant shore anymore, and they wonder if their paddling is moving them forward. None of the trees behind them are getting smaller and none of the trees ahead are getting bigger. They take it out on their spouses, and they go looking for an easier story.
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...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.
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Never give up. If you don’t give up, you will get there in the end.
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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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Because you aren't just someone I loved back then. You were my best friend, my best self, and I can't imagine giving that up again." He hesitated searching for the right words. "You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.
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If you want to be a singer or a performer or absolutely anything in the world that you want to do, I think you should never give up, you should never let anyone put you down and tell you you can't do it, because if you believe in yourself you will go far.
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I near the practice hall and pause, trying to push down my dread. Though I have trained with Astrid every day, I still have not let go and flown. Each day I wait for her to give up and tell me to leave. Come back tomorrow, she simply says.
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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up.
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I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late.
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The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
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An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
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I guess when you don’t have success any more, as with The Warmer Side of Cool, you either give up and feel bitter about it or, if you are a real musician, you get up and dust yourself down and just keep going.
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We're really happy with what we've got over here. You have to give up years of your life if you want to break America.
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We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.
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You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.
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Work hard and don’t give up…a lot of luck is involved as well, so a strong will is important too.
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Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
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Music is the first thing I didn't give up.
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What we call truths are just those errors that we cannot give up.
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I won't give up until the exploitation of all children has ended and all children have their rights.
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One must learn to give up momentary, uncertain and destructive pleasure for delayed, restrained, but dependable pleasure.
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When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.
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Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?
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Why give up before we try Feel the lows before the highs Clip our wings before we fly away I can't say I came prepared I'm suspended in the air Won't you come be in the sky with me.
