Giving Up Quotes

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

~ John Green

For best results, apply regularly.

~ Karen Salmansohn

In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .

~ David Michie

Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Never give up the life you wish, because that wish is your personal sun! If you give up, you will find yourself in the darkness even in the brightest day!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.

~ Karen Swallow Prior

Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The word 'quit' is only for those who aren't hungry enough for a successful life.

~ Hafiz

If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no easy way out of our circumstances...Sometimes you stick it out even when you want to give up because you know that on the other side is either a better situation or a better you. -Watercrossing (Phantom Island Book 3)

~ Krissi Dallas

People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice.

~ Marie Rutkoski

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

~ Charles Bukowski

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.

~ Mihail Drumeş

One of the most difficult lessons life has taught me is that if, despite my best efforts, something is not working out, it may be time to step back and assess what other opportunities are coming my way.

~ Andrena Sawyer

One of the most difficult lessons life has taught me is that if, despite my best efforts, something is not working out, it may be time to step back and assess what other opportunities are coming my way..

~ Andrena Sawyer

When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn’t really feel like a sacrifice.

~ Kiera Cass

The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.

~ Umair Haque

Regrets begin the moment we're comfortable with settling.

~ Andrena Sawyer

He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered against fences and the cold, wet walls of buildings by the way. Descent into the depths until at last there was no further chasm below. He touched the solid bottom of despair and there took ease.

~ Carson Mccullers

[Deserters], they've given up everything. Oaths. Families. When you desert, it breaks you. It leaves you willing to do anything, because you've already given away everything you could have cared about losing.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

~ Richie Norton

Even the people who once fought for others tend to get weak and eventually give up and lose interest in the worth of fighting any longer.

~ Osjusn Cc

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.

~ Ryan North

How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy.

~ Adrienne Wilder

This was it. This would be my final mission. An overwhelming sadness swept over me at the realization. There would be no more racing across campus to replace the missing arm of the Caesar Augustus statue with one made of pink duct tape. My mind would no longer be used as a photographic tool to unveil a terrorist’s plan. No more last-minute science experiments to help rescue a father and daughter from a terrorist organization. I wouldn’t get to rescue myself with the aid of a Millard-enhanced device. No more disguises involving wigs and glasses to save a Van Gogh painting. The Mariinsky Theatre, the Superman building, the Louvre—my stories would disappear, along with my memories. Light had vanished around me as the ocean swallowed me. I’d been unable to save a helpless girl from her evil kidnapper. In the darkness I heard Daly’s voice, clear and strong, almost like he was there. Don’t give up. Fight. Push yourself. Alexandra Stewart can make a masterpiece out of any canvas. He was right—I couldn’t give up. (page 206)

~ Robin M. King

Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.

~ Julianna Baggott

People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You are not a better or wiser person simply because you’ve ceased to care.

~ Clifford Cohen

Inspiration does not linger in one place over time, therefore human effort shouldn't be scaled on earlier attempt.

~ Unarine Ramaru

When life throws you a curve ball just give up, no need messing around with that off speed shit

~ Bradley Bowman

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

~ Michelle Cruz-Rosado

I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.

~ Kevin Powers