1,952 Quotes About Giving-up

  • Author Emmanuel Jal
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    I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

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  • Author Elton John
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    I just go into the studio, look at the lyrics for the first time when I put them on the piano, and go. If I haven't got it within 40 minutes, I give up. It's never changed, the thrill has never gone, because I don't know what I'm going to get next.

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  • Author Elton John
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    I'm 57, I can't look like a 30-year-old. You try to hold age at bay, but there comes a point when you just have to give up gracefully.

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  • Author Erica Jong
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    Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.

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

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  • Author Iris Johansen
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    In the end, we all have to decide what we're willing to give up for payback. We all have parents or grandparents or children who will need us. Agonizing decisions sometimes. You have to weigh the memories and debt against what's being taken from you.

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