100 Quotes About Giving-Up

Sometimes we set goals and then give up on them. We may be tired, or we may feel like we’re not good enough to achieve our goals. Whatever the reason, we sometimes need a little push to make it through. These quotes about giving up will inspire you to keep going and reach your goals.

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long...
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When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you. Shannon L. Alder
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It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up. C.J. Redwine
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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There is no failure except in no longer trying. Elbert Hubbard
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Trying is for everyday, but success has it own time and date. That is why success is no different than a fish. The only way you catch it, is never stop fishing. The more you fish the better your chances. The more you try the better your chances of succeeding. Unknown
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The worst thing in life is having parents that always stand against you and never with you. They discourage you, instill fear in you, hold you back, push you down and never encourage you to fly forward. When I have kids, they'll already be born with propellers with added wings. Even if one tells me they want to go learn how to ride lions in Africa, if their heart is driving that desire, I'd say "DO IT".If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live. I'd rather my kid die with a wild fire in his/her heart than with a malfunctioning or drained out fuse. Always allow your kids to keep humming with dreams and ideas that fuel their passions. Never tell them something is impossible. If you have a really strong determined kid, they'll go out there killing themselves trying to do the unachievable just to prove you wrong. And if you have a weak kid, they'll give up on life and settle for bagging Cokes and potato chips at your local grocery store. Suzy Kassem
You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.
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You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend. Curtis Tyrone Jones
I know I am brave because the thought of giving...
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I know I am brave because the thought of giving up scares me more than the thought of fighting Evy Michaels
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There comes a time in your life when you have to choose between giving up and staying strong, when situations will try to predict your fate, when friends will depart from you and your echo will be your only companion. When that time comes, remember just why you fought so hard to get to where you are. What is life that it should threaten your faith and who is man that you should clinch onto for happiness? You have a destination. Remember this!. Chinonye J. Chidolue
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Here’s to the “so-so-ing” it. Here’s to the working since I was 14 in a smoke clouded day. Here’s to saying I could stay until the forms were faxed. Here’s to driving home past dark and dozing off the road. Here’s to no over time. Here’s to the long line to management. Here’s to ALREADY DONE THAT! Here’s to quitting, saying I’m through, saying I can’t compete for your leftover lean cuisine. Here’s to art. Here’s to freedom. Here’s to saying God gave me every penny and knowing it’s true. Here’s to the next 40 years with you. Here’s to the new.– Adrianna Stepiano . Adrianna Stepiano
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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth. . Virginia Woolf
There comes a point where you no longer care if...
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There comes a point where you no longer care if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel or not. You’re just sick of the tunnel. Ranata Suzuki
By giving up what you are holding, you create emptiness...
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By giving up what you are holding, you create emptiness to receive. Debasish Mridha
Their heart grew coldthey let their wings down
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Their heart grew coldthey let their wings down Sappho
The difference between Success and failure is not giving up.
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The difference between Success and failure is not giving up. Steven Redhead
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How many of us stop short of success on purpose? How many of us sabotage our own happiness because failure, while miserable, is a fear we're familiar with? Success, however, dreams come true, are a whole new kind of terrifying, an entire new species of responsibilities and disillusions, requiring a new way to think, act and become. Why do we REALLY quit? Because it's hopeless? Or because it's possible.. Jennifer DeLucy
Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes...
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Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you. Rob Liano
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I believe the world is divided in three groups: givers, takers and the few that can balance both impulses. Giving and loving is a beautiful thing. It is the currency of compassion and kindness, it is what separates good people from the rest. And without it, the world would be a bleak place. If you are a giver, it is wise to define your boundaries because takers will take what you allow them to; all givers must learn to protect that about themselves or eventually, there is nothing left to give. Tiffany Madison
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Sometimes, you can be more than enough for someone, but they choose not to be in your life. Always remember that Satan works hard to keep people miserable by feeding their fears, so they stay in their comfort zone. The truth is some people value what is predictable, more than chemistry. Shannon L. Alder
Letting go is not about giving up, being lazy, or...
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Letting go is not about giving up, being lazy, or sacrificing yourself... Letting go doesn't have to mean losing; it can be about coming into a new, open, clean space from which you can create. Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble
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I cry even harder, thinking of how it could have been, of how I thought it would be. For the first time, I want to give up, to die, because suddenly everything is too much and there is no solution in sight. B.A. Paris
Every flower blooms at its own pace.
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Every flower blooms at its own pace. Suzy Kassem
It's hard to give up the being together with someone.
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It's hard to give up the being together with someone. Lois Lowry
When we can't dream any longer we die.
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When we can't dream any longer we die. Emma Goldman
I took a deep breath.
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I took a deep breath. "Are you free tonight?" There was a long, pregnant pause. "What about the man in the dream?" he finally asked. "There is no man in the dream. Richelle Mead
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Our minds become slaves to those we see as having total power to control us and to cause pain to us. We are quick to give up control of ourselves to those who have the power to rule us as long as they also have the power to feed us. This is the fundamental construct of a feudal society. Majid Kazmi
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All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us. . Kazuo Ishiguro
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He has no talent at all, that boy! You, who are his friend, tell him, please, to give up painting.—-- Manet to Monet, on Renoir--- Edouard Manet
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Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath. Kohta Hirano
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Before giving up, try hard. Debasish Mridha
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You think I don’t know pain?” Puck shook his head at me. “Or loss? I’ve been around a lot longer than you, prince! I know what love is, and I’ve lostmy fair share, too. Just because we have a different way of handling it, doesn’t mean I don’t have scars of my own.”“ Name one, ” I scoffed. “Give me one instance where you haven’t–”“ Meghan Chase! ” Puck roared, startling me into silence. I blinked, and he sneered at me. “Yeah, your highness. I know what loss is. I’ve loved thatgirl since before she knew me. But I waited. I waited because I didn’t want to lie about who I was. I wanted her to know the truth before anything else. So I waited, and I did my job. For years, I protected her, biding my time, until the day she went into the Nevernever after her brother. And then youcame along. And I saw how she looked at you. And for the first time, I wanted to kill you as much as you wanted to kill me. . Julie Kagawa
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I wake abruptly, my breath jagged and heart racing, my mouth stale, and I know immediately that's it. I'm awake. The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be. Paula Hawkins
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Sometimes my body wakes me up and says 'Hey, you haven't had pain in a while. How about pain?' And sometimes I can't breathe, and that's hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don't give up. Mattie Stepanek
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Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But it’s never too late to get it back. Kamand Kojouri
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I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day. Anthony Liccione
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Solving a complicated problem can be frustrating. You can have good problem solving skills, but sometimes a problem seems like it has no solution. Nevertheless, never give up. Eraldo Banovac
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Holding onto your dreams is better than holding onto your nightmares. Matshona Dhliwayo
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Beware of will power. It damages your giving-up skills. Vikrmn
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If you never learned to hold onto someone, how could it possibly hurt now to let them go? Shannon L. Alder
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Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts. Chris Bradford
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Anyone can fail at something they really don’t want. What really takes courage is going after something you want and then failing. There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight. Shannon L. Alder
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Don't let reality, get in way of your dreams. Anthony Liccione
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Teach your children that a person is more valuable than any treasure found on this earth, teach them to love, teach them to sing, and dance, teach them to be courageous, and tell them they will be victorious on anything they put their heart and mind to, teach them honesty, and to never give up hope. Martin Suarez
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It was me who had to carry myself over the finish line, and all I needed to remember when I felt like not trying was that that feeling wouldn't last forever. Jennifer L. Armentrout
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So many people die though they live, and it is not as if they don’t have life; they only refuse to keep breathing! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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You can't attack the giants in your life, if you are not aiming to strike and hit the target. You can't run a race in vain, if you have no plans to win or finish it. Start, strive and aim high...never give up. Your best is yet to come! Kemi Sogunle
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When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second. Shannon L. Alder
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The focus on our destiny and understanding our true self keeps us from not giving up Sunday Adelaja
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My life will end someday, but it will end at my convenience. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Failure for one is a source of creativity, build on it and a different story will puzzle itself. Unarine Ramaru
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Anybody can choose to relax but somebody must choose to pursue Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Tomorrow can take me, ” he said. “I don’t need today anyway. Shannon A. Thompson
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If you believe in something, then you shouldn’t give up on it. Harry Styles
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As long as there is life, there is a potential; and as long as there is a potential, there will be a success! You will sprout again when cut down! You will rise again even when you fall! Israelmore Ayivor
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Im dying everyday My breakfast are cigarettes and coffee My lunch is depression My snacks are regrets My dinner are memories and anger My night is non stoping tears Sleep is my death Waking up the next day and here we go again dying everyday Ali Hassan Hasan
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I have found that sometimes when a person gives up on 'humankind' they can often find trust and love in animal kind. André Chevalier Nikki Sex
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Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds. Richelle E. Goodrich
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There are moments when we all step away from the light... Gume Laurel III
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In the wake of my broken dreams In the dirt and the dust and the days that felt like weeks. I found the person that I’m meant to be‘ Cause when I felt like giving up When death was closing in I shut my eyes And black out the darkness with light from inside I’ve given more Than what I’ve got I’ve given all Of what I’m not I’ve watched this war consume all that we could become Facing my fears in the dark But if I die Before it’s done Please take these words My final thoughts The only way to shine your light is in the dark. Never let life kill your spark This is the fallout Yeah it’s the end of the world We’ll spread the noise to everyone and let them all know you heard A system meltdown It’s time we expose The 'cause of chaos is our own I’ve given more Than what I’ve got I’ve given all Of what I’m not I’ve watched this war consume all that we could become Facing my fears in the dark But if I die Before it’s done Please take these words My final thoughts The only way to shine your light is in the dark. Never let life kill your spark Never let life kill your spark Never let life kill your spark Facing my fears in the dark I’ve given more Than what I’ve got I’ve given all Of what I’m not I’ve watched this war consume all that we could become If I die Before it’s done Please take these words My final thoughts The only way to shine your light is in the dark. Never let life kill your spark. Crown The Empire
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Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d let them go. But now I look at you, and I dreamed about Maggie, and I see that I’ve been wrong. If you really love someone, Allie, I think you have to take them back. Jodi Picoult
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Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference? Mitch Albom
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My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping. Richelle E. Goodrich
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I ended up dropping out of high school. I'm a high school dropout, which I'm not proud to say, .. I had some teachers that I still think of fondly and were amazing to me. But I had other teachers who said, 'You know what? This dream of yours is a hobby. When are you going to give it up?' I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there . Hilary Swank
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I want to give up my bearings, slip out of who i am, shed everything, the way a snake discards old skin. Khaled Hosseini
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Or is what remains in me like a defeated army, Fleeing in disarray from victory already won? Bonhoeffer Dietrich
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You try hard, but you don't succeed. So you try harder, and harder.. But you still just don't succeed, you give it a try once more; only realising its never going to work out the way you want it to. But then again, you remember; you've tried so much. You've tried to please, you've tried to love and you've tried to care. You think to yourself, "Why should I keep on going?" You try so hard, what's the point. No one accepts you for who you are, no one sees you for who you are, no one takes the time to ask how you feel, no one takes the time to bother. But then there's you.. You try, and try. And you just give up hope, because its just so much easier!. Liam McGrath
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You think a man doesn't fall down, son? A real man falls down nine times and gets up ten. You think real men don't get scared? We do, all the time, especially when the people we love can be taken away from us. The key to manhood is being there, every morning when she wakes up, every night before she goes to bed. That's what a man does. It has nothing to do with how good you are with some shiny knives. And if you let her do this thing alone, then by God– . Ann Aguirre
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No matter what the odds say, be even with who you truly are. Unarine Ramaru
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The consequences of giving up on your dreams are bitter than the causes of your intentions to give up. Don’t give up! Israelmore Ayivor
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If giving up is to fail, then to hell with give up! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall,  for the  Lord upholds him with his hand. Anonymous
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The habit of giving up when the present task is half finished and try something else is one of the chief causes of failure. Christian D. Larson
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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
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For best results, apply regularly. Karen Salmansohn
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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
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Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life. Shannon L. Alder
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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
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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
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Never give up fighting against the universe because we exist in life through action, through fighting! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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The word 'quit' is only for those who aren't hungry enough for a successful life. Unknown
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I feel as though the end is never worth the pain of fearing You listen to the words I say without ever truly hearing I've noticed you are simply just another human being You look into my eyes and smile without ever truly seeing I no longer see the point in trying to be overbearing Because you told me that you loved me without ever truly caring Anissa Sorenson
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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
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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
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It was different to give something up than to see it taken away. The difference, Kestrel said, was choice. Marie Rutkoski
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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
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I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left. Unknown
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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
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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
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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
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Regrets begin the moment we're comfortable with settling. Andrena Sawyer
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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How easy it would be just to let go, to go willingly into all that wonderful energy. Adrienne Wilder
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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
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People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too. Donna Lynn Hope
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Don't you ever think of giving up! ! ! Charmaine J. Forde
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There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference. Bryant McGill
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You are not a better or wiser person simply because you’ve ceased to care. Clifford Cohen