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 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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To succeed, work hard, never give up and above all cherish a magnificent obsession.
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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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Why give up before we try?
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The only right a Christian has is the right to give up his rights.
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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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I didn't really want to give up music.
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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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To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.
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The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.
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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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Everybody goes through rough things in their lives, us included. The best advice we can give is to never give up, and always believe in yourself because when you do that, anything is possible.
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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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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.
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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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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up.
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An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
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We have to give up the idea of realism to a far greater extent than most physicists believe today.
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Dreams do come true for those who never 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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I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.
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It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up.
