Best 46 quotes in «not giving up quotes» category

She tells me about dreams. She says my dreams are helium and balloons, and I've made the mistake of letting go a few to many times, but I still got this one. Tied around my finger like a wedding ring because even though I don't believe in marriages, I'm gonna bring this one home.

The only reason to live is that we did not succeed.

She drove down from North Carolina to see me, and reminded me of scriptural lessons that tragedies and disappointments should be a source of increased patience, strength, wisdom, and a commitment to our Christian life. I rejected her premises at first, but Ruth finally convinced me to relegate my political and business ambitions to a secondary position of importance for a while and to assume some challenging religious commitments.

There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and worth the cherishing. If we despise any, we journey to despise ourselves. See all as beautiful, even if they choose to see themselves through you, as being less than so. We have the power to see for each, and be the reflection of what they may yet see.

People, give up on all sorts of things, Havers. But they rarely if ever give up on love.

Some people you don't give up on. Not because you can tell what they'll be or what will happen. Not because of that. It's because something inside you insists that you shouldn't---something knows more or knows better, stubbornly holds its ground, even while the the rest of the world and a million statistics and your own rational brain buzzes around you, chanting that you're a fool. And maybe they're right. Maybe you ARE a fool. But what if you're not? Can you give up without knowing if that voice was right all along? Where's the peace in that?

That's why you can't give up. Heroes don't give up.

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

Yaşamak insanların en büyük korkusu. Ölüm, sahip olduğumuz en büyük korku değildir; en büyük korkumuz yaşamak için risk almaktan korkmamızdır. Gerçekte kim olduğumuzu ifade ederek yaşayabilme riskini almaktan korkuyoruz. Sadece kendimiz olarak yaşamaktan korkuyoruz. Hayatımızı, başka insanların taleplerini, beklentilerini karşılamaya çalışarak yaşamayı öğrendik. Başka insanların bakış açılarına uygun olarak yaşamayı öğrendik. Çünkü kabul edilmemekten, başkası için yeterince iyi olamamaktan korkuyoruz.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

Difficulties can be overcome by not giving up.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

I gave up myself, but myself did not give up me; and so, I am still myself!

Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up.

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Nothing earthly will make me give up my work in despair.

The genius thing that we did was, we didn't give up.

We conquer by continuing.

We all start with zero. We all start at the beginning. Do not give up.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

In these times where it has seemed dark indeed where integrity appears solely buried in legend and lore, it is an opportunity in contrast to the shadows, to create miracles... by choosing first courage, then diligence, standing, opening our mouth and speaking the truth that in rare moments, may ignite the light.

Daemonic compulsiveness can kill as easily as it can save. The true novelist must be at once driven and indifferent. Van Gogh never sold a painting in his life. Poe came close with poetry and fiction, selling very little. Drivenness only helps if it forces the writer not to suicide but to the making of splendid works of art, allowing him indifference to whether or not the novel sells, whether or not it's appreciated. Drivenness is trouble for both the novelist and his friends; but no novelist, I think, can succeed without it. Along with the peasant in the novelist, there must be a man with a whip.

Holding onto your dreams is better than holding onto your nightmares.

Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind, the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that, and why I don’t want to look like this and be like that but still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.

We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!

Dare to live by letting go.

I asked, “When the Rebellions were at its peak doing nonsense, everyone was trying to keep away from the area, yet you were going in, why were you going into that area? Supt. Strachan answered quite frankly, Because I was not afraid. I felt like they are my people, they are my color. I don’t know of anyone born after me that I should be afraid of, that was how I felt. I knew I could’ve walk through Strachan’s Corner, sit down and felt at home, and their parents also accepted me. I came to the conclusion; these kids just need someone to show them some attention. They just wanted to belong, that was what a lot of them were looking for. So I said to myself, if I could assist them I would, and that was what I did. Supt. Allerdyce Strachan, the first female officer to rise to the rank of superintendent on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

[...] it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

Let go and go beyond living the dream, by dreaming the reality, into a reality beyond the dream.

More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.

My goal is not to upset the apple cart, but to make it more accessible.