1,952 Quotes About Giving-up

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now...

I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol.

I define power as control over one's life. Pay is not about power. Pay is about giving up power to get the power of pay.

[Success as panacea and trap:] The less a man is willing to give up a sex object, the more he'll be trapped into becoming a success object.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.

It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying.

If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.