Giving Up Quotes

God won't permit temptation beyond your strength. It is true that temptations come to all, but God will give you the graces you need to withstand them, if you ask him to and if you are willing to cooperate with his grace...In God's presence, consider: Do I put up a fight when temptations beset me, or do I give up quickly and surrender myself to them without a struggle? Do I rely on God's grace to conquer temptations, or am I conquered by them?

You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.

I'm planning to give up worrying. I want to, but I'm worried I won't be able to.

... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.

Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

There's always hope. Never give up. Walk slowly and drink lots of water. It ain't a sprint.

Know when to give up a lost cause. Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.

If you hit somebody hard enough, they will give up. You can feel their body go limp and they'll just surrender. So every time I hit somebody, the goal is to knock myself out. I know that if I hit somebody hard enough that I can feel it, it's hurting them 10 times worse.

I will give up troops gladly as long as I know that they will be used in the right place to bring victory.

Can a woman not keep her lover without she study to always please him with pleasure? Pew! Then let her give up the game. Or shall my lover think with pleasing of me to win me indeed? Faugh! He payeth me then; doth he think I am for hire?

The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. People living in cultures more securely rooted than our own have less trouble in understanding that it is necessary to give up the utilitarian attitude of conscious planning in order to make way for the inner growth of the personality.

I look around at all the girl singers, and I think they're all my children... and they're all going to do this... And, yes, maybe I inspired them because I did get through a lot, and I did have the same problems that they're going to have. You do have to give up a lot for it.

Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.

To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.

Sometimes there's no point in giving up.

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

The way to "find" the perfect career is to give up the notion that you will ever find it, stumble across it, or that it will somehow magically find you, and to get to work designing it.

Whatever things a man gives up, By those he cannot suffer pain.

If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

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

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.

Fascinatingly resilient the tenacity of a child. Not yet conditioned by society to give up when instructed to do so.

Young man, your problem and the reason so many like you fail, is simply because you allow yourself to give up far too early.

In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.

When you allow circumstances beyond your control to determine your attitude and actions, you risk plunging into a downward spiral of hasty decisions and faulty judgments, to overreacting, giving up too soon, and missing those opportunities that always - always - appear just when you think life will never get better.

Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

One of the hardest decisions you'll ever face in life is choosing whether to walk away or try harder.

My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didnt mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But its good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable.

The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.

If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.

Being a musician is to live, not to survive. Surviving is going to work every day and giving up your liberty and your time. When you do music, it's a free life.

No matter how hopeless or bleak things appear, the moment always comes when suddenly our spirit revives, and hope is reborn. That is why we must never give up.

It is at this moment, when things appear so bleak that we must redouble our efforts and not give up. We must believe that we can remake the world in a more peaceful reality.

Never give up on what you really want to do

As long as you believe in yourself and your own vision, you have something. When you give up that, you are personally bankrupt.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

I am convinced that I do not want to give up more power to the White House, whether it's George Bush or Barack Obama. And I'm going to fight as hard as I can against President Obama on these earmarks and my Republican colleagues who hate to vote for them, but love to get them.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

And there are people that will stand in your corner and convince you to stand up for another round no matter what.

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.