1,952 Quotes About Giving-up

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

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  • Author Deval Patrick
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    We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

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  • Author Dolly Parton
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    You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

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  • Author Dolly Parton
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    If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.

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  • Author Emo Philips
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    Writing jokes for others is like having babies for someone else. It's sad. Like the woman who gives up her baby but needs to be close so she secretly becomes the maid in the household.

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  • Author Ezra Pound
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    As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

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  • Author Gary Paulsen
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    This is going to be murder," Fransic whispered to Mr. Trimes. "Pure murder." "I'm glad to see your confidence returning, Mr. Tucket. Just a few minutes ago you were ready to give up. Now you're talking about killing him." "I meant it the other way." "Oh.

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  • Author Hugh Prather
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    Very seldom will a person give up on himself. He continues to have hope because he knows he has the potential for change. He tries again - not just to exist, but to bring about those changes in himself that will make life worth living. Yet people are very quick to give up on friends, and especially on their spouses, to declare them hopeless, and to either walk away or do nothing more than resign themselves to a bad situation.

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