Giving Up Quotes

‘Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.’ – Thomas A. Edison

‘Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.’ – Joe Biden

‘Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.’ – Mark Twain

‘Winning is fun… Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point.’ – Pat Summitt

‘Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.’ – Marilyn vos Savant

‘The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.’ – Anna Quindlen

‘I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, ‘Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.” – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

‘The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough.’ – Victoria Arlen

‘You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, ‘You know what? I’m giving up, I don’t care.’ And then you go to bed and you wake up and it’s a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again.’ – Nicole Scherzinger

‘The cost of college education today is so high that many young people are giving up their dream of going to college, while many others are graduating deeply in debt.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you.’ – Future

‘I always say that my biggest fear in a relationship is cheating, and people giving up.’ – Kaitlyn Bristowe

‘Giving up cannot be an option.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.’ – Ann Cotton

‘If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you’re weak or that you’re a failure because you can’t seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.’ – Amy Morin

‘I gave up coffee. It’s almost worse than giving up a lover.’ – Sandra Bullock

‘Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.’ – Aimee Mullins

‘You gain nothing from giving up.’ – Robert Kubica

‘There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn’t work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out.’ – Jay Samit

‘My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.’ – Pancho Villa

‘I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I’ve realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn’t make you give up half of yourself.’ – Kehlani

‘What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what’s thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.’ – Patrick Swayze

‘The only real failure is giving up.’ – Scooter Braun

‘We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.’ – Jim Mattis

‘Giving up is something a Lauda doesn’t do.’ – Niki Lauda

‘For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking… giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.’ – Edward T. Hall

‘Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.’ – Daniel Pipes

‘I think giving up people is a difficult thing.’ – Sissy Spacek

‘Both my parents are working class and filled me with the things you need to get along; not giving up, working hard, putting in the graft to go out and get something. I’ve seen the way they interact with people and how they treat them. When you have people like that, you don’t have to be told how to behave.’ – Jude Bellingham

‘I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you’re giving up that makes you resentful.’ – Marissa Mayer

‘A huge problem we face when we’re in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.’ – Tara Stiles

‘It is everyone’s prerogative to retire. But it’s like giving up on life as far as I’m concerned.’ – Roger Taylor

‘Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it’s giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you’d be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you’ve taken.’ – Hoda Kotb

‘I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone.’ – Julia Stiles

‘You have moments when you sulk, when you crib and cry and feel that, ‘why me and why all these things are happening with me.’ We are only human. It’s about facing your fear and not giving up because you are the only person who will support yourself at the end of the day and if you dont do that than nobody else will.’ – Vaani Kapoor

‘Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.’ – Colin Powell

‘There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That’s what I’m all about.’ – Sonita Alizadeh

‘To play at the highest level requires tremendous effort, concentration and above all, never giving up.’ – Joachim Low

‘Giving up drinking was a slow and gradual thing.’ – Lou Sanders

‘I’ve just never liked giving up on anything.’ – Bam Adebayo

‘I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.’ – Arthur Hays Sulzberger

‘I’ve been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It’s very important to give back as a youth. It’s as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.’ – Queen Latifah

‘I’m a believer in finding a passion, hard work and definitely not giving up on your dream.’ – La La Anthony

‘When you see the poet laureate saying that every child should have read ‘Ulysses’ and that you’re just giving up on children if you think it’s elitist – does that include children with special needs or whose first language isn’t English?’ – Nick Hornby

‘When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That’s when the sparkle started for me.’ – Mary Karr

‘Governments have been ceding power to big multinational corporations in the market. We see the manifest in a variety of ways. Where governments are giving up power to big international institutions like the World Trade Organization or NAFTA, which are disabling governments’ ability to protect the rights of their own people.’ – Noreena Hertz

‘I believe 99% of success is never giving up.’ – Coy Bowles

‘I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on – so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It’s weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.’ – Micky Ward

‘Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one’s resolve to retaliate.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.’ – Drea De Matteo

‘My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I’m traveling!’ – Laurie Hernandez

”Growing Stronger’ emerged from a need to relate my life experiences as well as my constant struggle to prevail each day, and as a reminder to myself of the importance of never giving up.’ – Thalia

‘We are all musicians, and we’re not really good musicians. But we have this gracious gift that has been bestowed on us, and we don’t want to disappoint. So I guess our biggest fear would be, just giving up.’ – Justin Chancellor

‘Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.’ – Chuck Schumer

‘In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research.’ – Marie Curie

‘I don’t believe in giving up. Though there are a lot of obstacles, heartaches and disappointments, you shouldn’t allow these things to break you.’ – Mumtaz

‘If we want to preserve the foundation of our democracy, it’s vital that we find common ground that allows us to work for the greater good of this nation. This does not mean giving up our values. This does not mean swallowing a bitter compromise.’ – Tulsi Gabbard

‘If you mind tells your body you can’t do it, you will quit. If your body is giving up, but you think you can carry on, you will naturally keep putting one foot in front of the other.’ – Ant Middleton

‘If you said, ‘I’m giving up smoking,’ people would put on a parade. If you said, ‘I’m going to eat more healthily,’ people would say, ‘Good for you.’ If it’s drinking, the first reaction is, ‘That’s so boring. You’re going to be so boring.” – Kate Garraway

‘The idea of giving up is really alien to a sportsman who’s all about winning at all costs.’ – Tony Adams

‘What’s worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up – and when I don’t believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.’ – Marc Jacobs

‘When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I’d had to work at Taco Bell I’d have still been out at night trying to play music.’ – Tom Petty

‘Do I believe in giving up? No, I don’t.’ – David Boreanaz

‘I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.’ – Billy Koch

‘I have a motto on my bedroom wall: ‘Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.’ Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that’s worthwhile.’ – Chris Burke

‘The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that’s a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.’ – Callie Thorne

‘Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.’ – Mark Zuckerberg

‘It’s a lot of hard work, competing and not giving up. I think you get more appreciated the older you get.’ – Daniel Nestor

‘Shifting toward management meant greater responsibility and influence, but it also meant giving up programming day-to-day in my role, which was hard because it took me out of my comfort zone.’ – Marissa Mayer

‘Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant, selfish, petty, fat, spoilt, stupid car abusers into giving up their addiction and walking.’ – Giles Coren

‘Playing a rookie at quarterback tells the other players that you’re giving up the season.’ – Troy Aikman

‘Ageing doesn’t mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn’t mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.’ – Twiggy

‘If you want to become physically stronger, you’ll need healthy habits – like going to the gym. You’ll also have to give up unhealthy habits – like eating junk food. Building mental strength requires healthy habits – like practicing gratitude – while also giving up unhealthy behavior, like giving up after the first failure.’ – Amy Morin

‘For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard – that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it.’ – Michelle Pfeiffer

‘I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn’t something that you should do.’ – Jessica Lynch

‘I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we’re getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war.’ – Barbara Lee

‘It’s a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can’t really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.’ – Garry Marshall

‘I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.’ – Stuart Appleby

‘I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live here. If you want to work in film, that’s really where you have to be. But I’m not sure that being an ex-pat is very good for one’s sense of self.’ – Emily Mortimer

‘I would say that I’ve been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up.’ – Babyface

‘I’m not giving up acting, I’m definitely not going to stop.’ – Shane West

‘I don’t think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost – certainly not to the point of giving up – but there’s something to be said for a book that isn’t instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.’ – John M. Ford

‘I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.’ – Alan Dean Foster

‘The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.’ – Katherine Dunn

‘Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.’ – Joyce Maynard

‘There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself.’ – Jerry Only

‘I hate the Communists and have for many years and don’t feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.’ – Elia Kazan

‘Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I’m not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else’s job. I just can’t think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!’ – Garth Brooks

‘As a writer, you can’t allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.’ – Augusten Burroughs

‘Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes.’ – Keith Henson

‘Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.’ – Melissa Bean

‘I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.’ – Stanislav Grof

‘An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.’ – Stephen Stills

‘I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.’ – David Antin

‘Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.’ – Lucille Roybal-Allard

‘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.’ – LL Cool J

‘Now I’m giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.’ – Lee Westwood

‘I could have gone professional, but I’m not giving up on my dream.’ – Rau’Shee Warren

‘I’m happy ’bout life. Still trying. I ain’t giving up on life.’ – Leon Spinks

‘I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.’ – Sachin Tendulkar

‘If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense. It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.’ – Ai Weiwei

‘After ‘The Real Thing,’ I thought about giving up acting because it’s difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you’re an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That’s what I thought, anyway.’ – Jennifer Ehle

‘We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.’ – Evo Morales

‘The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early ’90s. I don’t think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive.’ – Gary Numan

‘I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that’s what I’d do. Or design clothes. I think I’d throw myself into whatever I’m doing now. It’s not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It’s about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.’ – Ayumi Hamasaki

‘By the late ’80s, I was already giving up on rap music.’ – Chuck Eddy

‘When you’re scared, you’re still hanging on to life. When you’re ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you’ve never done it before.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I’m not giving up.’ – Pete Earley

‘What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It’s not giving up your family.’ – Tamora Pierce

‘Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.’ – Victoria Moran

‘There will be times when you just can’t seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don’t! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it.’ – Sam Claflin

‘Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights.’ – Alan Moore

‘To sit back and say, ‘Oh, we’re going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,’ is giving up.’ – Michael Franti

‘The nice girl thinks she’s giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she’s depleted.’ – Sherry Argov

‘There are things I’d wish weren’t part of ageing. But what you gain is much more than you’re giving up. I don’t think you come into your own until you’re 35 or so.’ – Cindy Crawford

‘For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.’ – Naomi Wolf

‘There’s no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that’s even better, and quickly.’ – Dean Ornish

‘I don’t regret giving up football for acting. I love football and am very proud I played for Morton. But the truth is, I wasn’t going to get much higher in football. At the same time, I sensed I could go somewhere in acting. I’m 28, which is young for acting, whereas in football I’d now be near the end of my career.’ – Martin Compston

‘The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise – a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.’ – Lakshmi Mittal

‘As long as you’re giving up quality records and you’re makin’ hit records, people are always gonna want to hear a hit, and they’ll always want to be attached to something that’s doin’ great.’ – Akon

‘Hitler had a police state of the first order. And those who showed any sign of being weak-kneed faced prison or often summary execution. That prevented a lot of people who knew that the war was not going to turn out well for Germany from giving up.’ – Rick Atkinson

‘Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.’ – William S. Burroughs

‘My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.’ – Jeremy Lin

‘I had parents who believed I could do anything – and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself.’ – Reese Witherspoon

‘Normally, people give up parliament because they want to do more business or spend more time with family. My wife said ‘why don’t you say you’re giving up to devote more time to politics?’. And it is what I have done.’ – Tony Benn

‘I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people’s cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years.’ – John Naisbitt

‘Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one’s ever had.’ – Tom Petty

‘When you think about it, giving up your ‘real’ personality is a small price to pay for the richness of ‘living happily ever after’ with an actual man!’ – Lynda Barry

‘The battle for freedom and liberty really never is over, and there are really low points in it, but I’m not giving up, and I’m not gonna engage in phony pep talks, either.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds… For a guy to feel like he’s a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you’re on your way into the grave.’ – Kevin Bacon

‘Doing the eco-accessory thing doesn’t have to mean giving up designer labels. In fact, quite the opposite.’ – Sheherazade Goldsmith

‘Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it.’ – James E. Faust

‘I’ve learned the dangerous lesson of the web: You succeed by giving up control, and that’s inverse of the normal campaign.’ – David Weinberger

‘For a long time, I thought when you do a box set, you’re giving up; you’re saying, ‘OK, I don’t have anything left.’ But now I’ve listened to some of the old stuff I haven’t heard in 20 to 40 years with fresh ears. It’s like, ‘Oh yeah, I can see where people might want to to hear some of this stuff that didn’t make it onto the records.” – Bob Seger

‘Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.’ – Rebecca MacKinnon

‘Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.’ – Caroline Leavitt

‘What I really admire are people like my daughter, Victoria, who don’t give up, who have daily medical challenges and medical conditions. They go on with their lives and make the best of it, not giving up even when it’s not easy.’ – Craig Mello

‘I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I’m like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.’ – Natasha Lyonne

‘To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it’s OK to eat the ones that don’t have any nuts.’ – Timothy Noah

‘My parents weren’t keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.’ – Kate Bush

‘There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That’s a crucial age, although it’s very hard to judge who is worth supporting and who is not. Looking back on my own life, I see that was the period when I was closest to giving up as a novelist and when I most needed some encouragement.’ – Edmund White

‘The tendency is to think if you are a professional woman, it’s because you’ve turned your back on the traditional side. The tendency is not to recognize that we can excel as professionals without giving up our identity of being mother, wife and homemaker.’ – Lucille Roybal-Allard

‘The English expression ‘to fall asleep’ is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘I am ready to debate how we fight terrorism without giving up our liberty.’ – Rand Paul

‘You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.’ – Allison Anders

‘You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.’ – Adam D’Angelo

‘They say there’s no second act in American lives. There’s something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system’s or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?’ – Scott Rudin

‘With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you’re particularly tired, but most of the time, you’re fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you’re better off just giving up and admitting that you’re not going to, so forget about it.’ – Deirdre O’Kane

‘The best thing is to go public only when you’re absolutely sure that’s the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.’ – Jon Oringer

‘I transitioned to being a vegan slowly. I took out beef and chicken first and did research on alternative forms of protein. Then after a few months, I gave up something else but added in new things. You need to bring in new food when you take away the old food you are giving up. Learn about what foods you should be eating.’ – Kim Barnouin

‘My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.’ – Caitlyn Jenner

‘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.’ – B. R. Ambedkar

‘It’s about never giving up until your hand is on the wall. I think people who get complacent, who think that they are in front, a sloppy touch, can cost you that elusive medal, just as much as the people who are gunning for you. If you believe you can get there right to the very end, miracles do happen.’ – Cate Campbell

‘I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen’s English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard.’ – Priyanka Chopra

‘It would be really easy to get discouraged over gun safety, and I have to explain all the time why I am not giving up and why people should not give up.’ – Elizabeth Esty

‘I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won’t even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.’ – Boris Johnson

‘I remember some stories had a very big impact on me, like ‘The Little Train That Could,’ which is about the importance of not giving up, and ‘Little Toot,’ about a playful tugboat in the New York harbor.’ – Teri Garr

‘I don’t like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don’t want the hitter to see that something bothers me.’ – Jacob deGrom

‘I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Trump’s proposed policies.’ – Lawrence Kudlow

‘A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up.’ – Fabrizio Moreira

‘I’ve got my hardcore fans, and I thank them so much for being there for me and not giving up on me.’ – Jeff Hardy

‘I’m hungrier than all of them. They didn’t put in the effort that I did to get the title. So I don’t care what it takes – I’m not giving up that title. I worked too hard to get it, and I’m not going to lose it.’ – Stipe Miocic

‘I love the idea of giving up the vengeful nature that so many of us have.’ – Mandy Patinkin

‘Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.’ – Roger Ailes

‘We are not giving up on repealing and replacing Obamacare.’ – Steve Scalise

‘I’d love to make a movie with Tom Hardy. If we ever got the chance to make a Venom movie together, that would be super-cool, but his movie would have to take place in the MCU because I’m not giving up my ticket in the MCU.’ – Tom Holland

‘Giving up something personal to the public, you are surrendering something.’ – Holly Hunter

‘I let previous instances creep up in my thought process sometimes. I think that’s where things go awry, and that’s where the walks come in. I’m not giving up many hits, just putting them on base for free.’ – Jake Arrieta

‘With every advance, you have to look over your shoulder and know what you’re giving up – look over your shoulder and look at what falls away.’ – Ellen Ullman

‘I’m not giving up politics entirely – I’m just giving up leadership of a political party.’ – Nigel Farage

‘It’s so nice to know that there are other ways to treat your animal than just giving up on them.’ – Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

‘Morality aside, there are other factors deterring ‘strategic defaults,’ whether in recourse or nonrecourse states. These include the economic and emotional costs of giving up one’s home and moving, the perceived social stigma of defaulting, and a serious hit to a borrower’s credit rating.’ – Richard Thaler

‘The reason I can play loads of instruments is because I kept giving up and trying another one.’ – Lapsley

‘We are not giving up on the Coyotes in the Greater Phoenix Area… The team has got a number of options and is going to pursue them, so nobody should think that team is moving other than out of Glendale.’ – Gary Bettman

‘A ‘social media fast’ is a fast, I suppose like any other. In this case, you’re simply giving up whether it be a device or a particular type of social media site. And I do this at least once weekly.’ – Tim Ferriss

‘I’ve twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.’ – Stephen Hough

‘Everything an artist does is scary, but we do it anyway. If someone tries to steer you off-course, push them outta the way and get back on course. Never giving up – that’s what I truly believe all the greatest bands have done.’ – Zacky Vengeance

‘You can take it for granted that I am not going to waste any time thinking about giving up how happy I am at Borussia, in the city of Dortmund, and with this team.’ – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

‘I feel I could be a role model to other Hispanic gymnasts interested in the sport, but I also want them to understand the importance of being focused, determined, and not giving up, despite all the struggles.’ – Laurie Hernandez

‘I eat healthily and exercise, and I’m not giving up and saying I’m too old – I’m just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity.’ – Ellen Burstyn

‘Forgiving is giving up the wish that things could have been different. They weren’t. That’s the past. Let it go.’ – Valerie Harper

‘If there’s no point, then there’s no point giving up.’ – Charlie Brooker

‘My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings and me, and I think that’s something that will stick with me my whole life.’ – Nathan Chen

‘If I had a message to give my dad, it’d probably be, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.’ He’s helped me so much on this crazy journey. Giving up his job, being away from my mom, and being away from home for that much just because of me? It’s a lot. And I thank him for it.’ – Chloe Kim

‘After giving up softball, I didn’t know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn’t really sure what would happen. I thought my athletic career was over.’ – Elana Meyers

‘When we failed and pivoted our business from mKhoj to InMobi or when we did not get any trained people with the required skillsets, as we were the first in the industry, and on many such instances in our journey, we would think of giving up every other day.’ – Naveen Tewari

‘Because of our excessive touring and not giving up, it wasn’t until ‘Toys’ came out that ‘Dream On’ really caught on. And then, of course, ‘Walk This Way’ crept up after that. Things went our way after that.’ – Joey Kramer

‘I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio.’ – Poo Bear

‘I think that ‘Straw Dogs’ as a story is eminently re-makable. It can be modernized and Americanized without a problem and without giving up any artistic integrity.’ – Rod Lurie

‘Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.’ – Madeline Brewer

‘We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one.’ – Priyamvada Natarajan

‘I’m not going to put my music up on some little corner of the Internet or give it away for free. What does that do? That’s just giving up. I’m not giving up, ever.’ – No I.D.

‘When I came out, I thought coming out meant giving up a marriage and a family. That was, to me, the most difficult part of the coming-out process.’ – Rory O’Malley

‘I think the most difficult part is being patient for good work to come. Sometimes, you feel like giving up if things don’t materialise in a short period of time.’ – Nora Fatehi

‘To beat Serena, she’s world No. 1, so it’s always tough to beat someone like this. She’s never giving up. Even if she’s losing, not playing her best, it’s always tough to beat girls like this.’ – Karolina Pliskova

‘Going over to L.A., L.A. giving up a lot of prospects for me, that kind of shows you what I meant to them, which is amazing.’ – Manny Machado

‘Nothing hits harder than that: nothing more frustrating than your body giving up on you before your heart does.’ – Mustafa Ali

‘The broad consensus is that our system should be better structured to deter crimes without giving up on everyone who commits them, and should better balance resources to hold violent criminals fully accountable without imposing unnecessarily harsh sentences on nonviolent offenders.’ – Bob Casey, Jr.

‘I see many youngsters giving up their IT jobs and going to farming or taking up organic farming so that kids in future will stay a bit more healthier. That’s one cause I really want to take up.’ – Karthi

‘I was 25 when I’d told my parents that I was giving up steady work as an electrician to become an actor. They couldn’t have been less enthusiastic if I’d proposed starting a commercial newt-breeding operation in the bathroom.’ – David Jason

‘I regret not taking my 83-year-old mother to the Oscars the year I won. She deserved the Oscar for giving up so much for me.’ – Kathy Bates

‘Most canele recipes begin with an instruction to brush $30 copper molds with melted beeswax. Unsurprisingly, I’ve never made it past the Internet search for ‘used canele molds’ before giving up.’ – Samin Nosrat

‘Giving up is the first way to fail. It does not exist for me.’ – Niko Kovac

‘Those who are not giving up their nefarious activities even in the holy month of Ramzan, should their activities not be called unholy?’ – Rajnath Singh

‘Acting isn’t always about the amount of talent you have, or your ability to cry on command. The point is, how well can you take direction? How well can you put aside your own ideas or ego and listen to the ideas of the director and the people above you, while not giving up the passion and drive of that character?’ – Shannon Purser

‘Ni Main Yaar Manana Ni’ is a cult classic and also one of my favourite songs from a Yash Chopra movie. The song is about never giving up on one’s love and I connected instantly with it when I first heard it.’ – Vaani Kapoor

‘For all those, who ever think of giving up and give in what others have to say, I would say hold onto your dream and watch it come alive, just like mine.’ – Vaani Kapoor

‘I wore a padded bra every single day and night from the age of 14 until I was 31. Giving up padding was my New Year’s resolution. I had known for ages that wearing a stuffed bra was a form of hiding my real body.’ – Sara Pascoe

‘An all-women championship is giving up on the mission of eventually making girls compete on a high level and against the boys in Formula One. It is undermining what girls are able to achieve.’ – Susie Wolff

‘I thought about giving up the sport, but I have a lot of good people around me: my wife, Nina, my family. Everybody keeps helping me to be positive and moving forward.’ – Amanda Nunes

‘I was almost giving up because the chemo was so intense and aggressive that there were moments I had to find the inner strength within myself.’ – Taboo

‘It was daunting, giving up a regular job for a freelance world, where every day off is a day of unemployment and you are conscious you are not earning. But it was time to take a gamble and see what’s on the other side.’ – Konnie Huq

‘After giving up rugby, I wanted to keep busy.’ – Gareth Thomas

‘I just got to a point where I was lying to myself constantly, so I had to face up to that. It was a lot of… I don’t want to use the words ‘self sacrifice,’ but that’s what it felt like. It was giving up who I thought I was and starting over from scratch and realizing the man that I am was good enough.’ – Ivan Moody

‘There were a few times in previous fights where I was hurt. It’s just a matter of not giving up, if you know what I’m saying.’ – Stephen Thompson

‘I don’t give in and I don’t believe in giving up. This comes naturally to me, I know no other way.’ – Dia Mirza

‘But the point of a progressive revenue tax is that you create incentives both for breakups, you penalize the acquisitions, and you encourage the development of models where the customers are customers and they know what they’re giving up.’ – Paul Romer

‘Professionals use ‘Strictly’ as a relaunch of flagging careers. In my year Kara Tointon won. She had been talking about giving up acting in favour of interior design, but the glitter ball led to a role as Eliza Doolittle in the West End.’ – Ann Widdecombe

‘There have been times when our career is uncertain, the film industry can be beautiful and judgmental at the same time. There are times when I thought of staying back and giving up.’ – Meghana Raj

‘Jacare, he has power. We’re two strong guys. He relies on being aggressive and coming forward. He looks to get the takedown. He’s punching and he’s shooting. I’ve never been taken down in a fight. Now, I’m not disregarding that I could be taken down, but I just know that I have a little bit more when it comes to giving up takedowns.’ – Derek Brunson

‘When I became a monk, it didn’t feel like I was giving up that much. I actually felt like I had made the best decision, because anyone who hadn’t focused on building themselves up was the one losing out.’ – Jay Shetty

‘There were good-faith reasons to resort to extraordinary measures when confronting an unknown global pandemic. Most of us consented to the lockdown, even if reluctantly. However, that consent – freely given as an act of social solidarity – was not intended as a green light to giving up hard-won liberties, or a perpetual suspension of free society.’ – Claire Fox

‘You’re always trying to feel confident and to feel good about yourself, but what it comes down to is really giving up to someone else. Having faith.’ – Chris Weidman

‘When I finally accepted a full time job, I saw that as giving up on my artistic dreams. But three years later, I wrote a blog post based on life in the corporate world, which went viral and became the basis for my first book, which allowed me to quit my job to be creatively independent once again.’ – Sarah Cooper

‘I’ve been looking for my absolute favorite beauty product for a long time because my skin becomes dry and oily relatively fast. I haven’t found the right one, but I’m not giving up!’ – Kim Tae-hyung

‘I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.’ – Joe Flacco

‘One of my roles is rebounding the ball and not giving up offensive boards, and I feel like I can be one of the best in the league at that.’ – Ivica Zubac

‘When I was thinking of giving up, I was very dissatisfied with the idea that the films that I’ve made are the ones my daughter might see in the future and would represent what was very personal to me.’ – Lee Isaac Chung

‘I remember my second year, in the playoff game in Dallas, I remember every play that happened. I remembered giving up a back-shoulder fade in the end zone, scoring.’ – Shaquill Griffin

‘No, broadly speaking there is no average age in comedy, which is very refreshing. Any stress over success vis-a-vis age in comedy is just a matter of giving up short-term gains in favor of the long haul.’ – Bowen Yang

‘I think you can’t have swagger when you’re giving up 30 points or four- or five-hundred yards.’ – Devin McCourty

‘At the end of the day, when you have more points than the other team, you win. So, defensively, it’s all about not giving up touchdowns. It’s about trying to keep them off the board.’ – Devin McCourty

‘A lot of people are giving up on politics and thinking they can solve issues with technology. These kind of arrogant behaviors towards the rest of the society are a bit disgusting.’ – Peter Sunde

‘I don’t really take no for an answer. Giving up isn’t an option.’ – Mariana van Zeller

‘I had a different impression of motherhood. I was told it’ll be tough but I realised that eventually it is what you make of it. When you see the love your child gives, giving up a few things doesn’t feel like any sacrifice.’ – Lisa Haydon

‘Between 2018 and 2020, I contemplated giving up the sport at various points.’ – Ravichandran Ashwin

‘A lot of women have low self-esteem. I was just brought up around a lot of women and they were stern. Like, you don’t need a man to do anything; you gotta take care of yourself, believe in yourself. My mom was like, go get it. And now I’m just a strong person, and I don’t believe in giving up.’ – Trina

‘I have siblings that look up to me, so the fear of them giving up on their dream because I gave up on mine is what kept me going for so many years.’ – Jimmie Allen

‘I had considered giving up but my desire and passion were too strong. I wanted to make it as professional footballer and now I’m here.’ – Lorenzo Insigne

‘When you are trying to get back into a game, you don’t want to throw a check down and feel like you are giving up, so you are trying to make a big play or get things going, get some momentum.’ – Geno Smith

‘I’ve always been competitive, I always think that every play should work, and I hate giving up on a play, but sometimes you have to.’ – Geno Smith

‘Only thing the French are good at is having affairs and giving up and losing fights.’ – Sean Strickland

‘Me, personally, giving up a sack, I feel like the whole game is messed up.’ – Trent Williams