You Give Up Quotes

Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?
- Jodi Picoult

So don't judge me, unless you've fallen asleep on a couch with your ill child, thinking this night might be her last.
Ask instead: would you do it?
Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love?
Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?
- Jodi Picoult

I didn't literally kill Indians. We were supposed to make you give up being Indian. Your songs and stories and language and dancing. Everything. We weren't trying to kill Indian people. We were trying to kill Indian culture.
- Sherman Alexie

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
- Woody Allen

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
- Robert Anthony

The funny thing about a lie is that once it has been said and believed, it lives and becomes. It can't be taken back. It sucks all the air from you until you give up and it takes over and you forget how to breathe on your own. It is like those parasitic relationships, but not like the shark and the little remora that politely cleans the shark's skin and sometimes attaches itself to its underbelly. No, it is more like a tapeworm eating someone from the inside out.
- Carrie Arcos

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.
- Bruce Barton

I once heard my mother tell my sister love only comes at a price, there's no way around it. You give up parts of yourself for love, she said. If that's true, I thought, the cost of our love had risen. And despite wanting to be as real to you as you were to me, I couldn't afford us any longer. We were beyond my means.
- Christopher Barzak

You're only poor if you give up. The most important thing is that you did something. Most people only talk and dream of getting rich. You've done something.
- Robert Kiyosaki

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?
- Ann Brashares

A man is what he has a passion about, Breeze said. 'I've found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll just end up miserable.
- Brandon Sanderson

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable.
- Brandon Sanderson

The hardest blessing you give up is silence.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Do you give up?" Shezmu bellowed.
"No!" I yelled. "No, we don't give up. We will name you. Just... Gosh, you're quite well muscled, arn't you? Do you work out?
- Rick Riordan

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
- Jim Carrey

Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.
- Forrest Carter

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
- Margaret Cho

The truth hung heavy in the air between us, a near tangible thing. I;d kill for you, give up everything I own for you...but I won't give you up.
- Sylvia Day

I'll kill for you, give up everything i own for you...but i won't give you up.
- Sylvia Day

I'd kill for you, give up everything I own for you.... but I won't give you up.
- Sylvia Day

Soon you give up, don't look for her anymore, either in the town or at night or in the daytime.
Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.
- Marguerite Duras

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy.... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
- Bob Marley

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
- Oriana Fallaci

If you think somebody cares about you and believes your life is worth saving, how can you give up?
- Geraldine Ferraro

Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
- Patrick Henry

Most people say that as you get old, you have to give up things. I think you get old because you give up things.
- Theodore F Green

Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.
- Joshua Hartzell

There's still a question I must put to you," said the cunger woman. "Can you give up Joshua to keep him?
- William H Hooks

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
- E Stanley Jones

I always thought love would be easy and slip into place when the moment is right. But, how far do you go for love? How much of your life do you give up for a single person? And how much do you let yourself change? When you stop being yourself, who will you become?
- Katie Kacvinsky

Yeah, I'll believe that the day you give up your lip balm."
I gasped. "Never. Without it my lips feel naked and alone." (Charity Rising)
- Deanna Kinney

There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. the will that never let's you give up
- Masashi Kishimoto

Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story.
- Gail Carson Levine

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
- Cormac Mccarthy

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
- Aaron Mcgruder

Revenge. They took too much. You give up and die, or learn how to take back.
- Karen Marie Moning

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
- Jim Morrison

Have you ever had one of those days where you give up on being really clean, and settle for being largely clean? Where you don't have time for the entire scrubbing and exfoliating regime, so you settle for the basics? Where brushing your teeth becomes the most rigorous part of your cleaning ritual? Yeah, welcome to Monday morning at St. Sophia's School for (Slightly Grimy) Girls.
- Chloe Neill

Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life.
- Brigitte Nielsen

When you makes movies, you usually make good money. But it is also a very tough job. Once you enter the public's eye, you have to be aware that you give up a huge part of your own life. And it is never a job from nine to five.
- Brigitte Nielsen

When you give up struggle, there's a kind of love.
- Joyce Carol Oates

When will you give up these mad adventures, and leave others to fight their own battles and to save their own lives as best they may?'
When your ladyship has ceased to be the most admired woman in Europe, namely, when I am in my grave.
- Emmuska Orczy

The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.
- John Osborne

I'm convinced that you never have to give up liberties to be safe. I think you're less safe when you give up your liberties.
- Ron Paul

You give up your childhood. You miss proms and games and high-school events, and people say it's awful... I say it was a good trade. You miss something but I think I gained more than I lost.
- Mary Lou Retton

When you give up,' said a slim older man whose home we rebuilt, 'you might as well lay down and die.' It was obvious that we weren't just giving people back their homes, but also restoring a sense of dignity.
- Howard Schultz

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
- Idries Shah

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

You love them, even though they're gone. In order to love you need to live, if you give up on life you can no longer love. You'd no longer have the capability to love them.
- Nicole Sobon

...But sometimes life made you give up what you loved most. Sometimes there were no compromises or bargains.
- Danielle Steel

Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.
- Danielle Steel

She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.
- Danielle Steel

It's horrible being ashamed of someone you care about; it eats away at you. And if you let it get to you, if you give up the fight and surrender, eventually that shame turns to hate.
- Tabitha Suzuma

At what point do you give up - decide enough is enough? There is only one answer really. Never.
- Tabitha Suzuma