1,952 Quotes About Giving-up

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?

You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

To the ego mind, surrender means giving up. To the spiritual mind, surrender means giving in and receiving.

Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

There's a false notion that success is a zero sum game. To win in our careers we have to give up family. To work hard we have to sacrifice sleep. To accomplish we must take (or borrow or steal) from somewhere else in our lives. It's just not the case.

For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen... together they are more than the sum of their parts.