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Giving Up Quotes (page 25)

William Goldman quote: "He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not..."
He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what. William Goldman
When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks. Bob Dylan
Idries Shah quote: "If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be..."
If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting. Idries Shah
Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education. I am older than you, have felt badly myself, and know, what I tell you is true. Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all you life. Abraham Lincoln
Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do onething. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let thebody tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body isnever tired if the mind is not tired. When you were youngerthe mind could make you dance all night, and the body wasnever tired... You've always got to make the mind take overand keep going. George S. Patton
Marcel Proust quote: "Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true..."
Men may thus have several sorts of pleasures. The true pleasure is that for which they give up another. Marcel Proust
Theodore Roethke quote: "Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a..."
Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt keeps breathing a small breath. Theodore Roethke
You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind. Ram Dass
Had a couple of drinks by myself. It was a mistake. Have I got to give up drinking, too? If I eliminate everything, how will I exist? I was somebody who loved Maurice and went with men and enjoyed my drinks. What happens if you drop all the things that make you I? Graham Greene
One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my beautiful thoughts and my love for the things God has made. But I find that the happiness springing from all things not in themselves sinful is much increased by religion. God is the God of the Beautiful—Religion is the love of the Beautiful, and Heaven is the Home of the Beautiful—-Nature is tenfold brighter in the Sun of Righteousness, and my love of Nature is more intense... George MacDonald
Pauline Kael quote: "An artist must either give up art or develop."
An artist must either give up art or develop. Pauline Kael
In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that the growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and that each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up even a particle of his unconsciousness. Ask those who have tried to introduce a new idea! Carl Jung
If anybody ever shuts you in Indiana...and you don't at least write some unconstrained something or other, I give up hope for your salvation. Ezra Pound
James Taylor quote: "Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever..."
Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young. James Taylor
All my friends and relatives have always taken a condescending tone to my writing, and never ceased urging me in a friendly way not to give up real work for the sake of scribbling. Anton Chekhov

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