1,952 Quotes About Giving-up

  • Author Jackie Evancho
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    I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.

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  • Author Jackie Evancho
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    My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.

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  • Author Jennifer Ehle
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    After 'The Real Thing,' I thought about giving up acting because it's difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you're an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That's what I thought, anyway.

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  • Author Juan Enriquez
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    When you go and you tour Europe, or you go and you tour Egypt, or you go and you tour Iraq, or you go and you tour Afghanistan, or India, or whatever. Governments get to a point where they're illegitimate because people just give up on them as far as being leaders who have their country's interests at heart.

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  • Author Marian Wright Edelman
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    The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.

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  • Author mary baker eddy
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    Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

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  • Author Meister Eckhart
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    There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.

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