Y Quotes
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“You don't give her up. You only go halves.”
Source: Little Women
“You don’t give up on democracy every time you lose a vote”, Ethel said crisply.”
Source: Winter of the World
“You don't give up on me and I don't give up on you.”
Source: Ten Thousand Tries
“You don't give up on people you truly love. Whether they are in your life or stand on the edge of your heart, you want them to be happy. This is the truest kind of love because it gives more than it ever receives.”
“You don’t give up when you can’t give up.”
I didn’t write that to sound deep.
I wrote it because it was the only thing keeping me alive.
My survival chant.
The only thing keeping me standing
when everything around me said “let go.”
I couldn’t give up.
I didn’t have the luxury to give up.
Not because I’m stronger than most—
but because I knew what was at stake.
If I gave up, the pain wins.
The patterns repeat.
The cycle continues.
And I refuse to pass that down.
So I told myself:
This ends with me.
The silence.
The suffering.
The struggle passed down like inheritance.
If I gave up,
then my future children—
and their children—
would be handed the very thing I was born into.
Chains I never asked for.
Wounds I never caused.
But still carried.
I chose to carry that weight,
not because I wanted to,
but because someone had to.
The word “give up” became a curse in my vocabulary.
An abomination.
A forbidden thought.
Because it’s easy to say you won’t give up.
It’s a whole different battle
to actually not give up—
to keep showing up
when no one claps,
no one helps,
no one sees.
Some are born into healing
because someone before them—
a parent, a grandparent,
maybe a great-grandparent—
chose to fight.
Chose to heal.
Chose to break the cycle.
And some of us?
We were born into the battle.
But even then—
we still get to choose.
Why not you?
Why not now?
What if no one before you ever stopped the pattern?
What if nobody handed you peace?
Then maybe—just maybe—
it’s meant to be you.
I did it.
Not because I had superhuman strength.
But because I refused to surrender.
Because I made giving up a sin.
Because I looked ahead
and saw a generation waiting for me to decide.
By pain.
By fire.
By blood.
By scars.
By God’s grace—
I broke the cycle.
And now,
I live to tell the story.”
“You don’t go around saying “Am I happy?” all the time, unless you’re human, of course.”
Source: Expecting Someone Taller
“You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do.”
Source: The Shadow Queen
“You don’t go into business just based on motivation. You go into business with the right tools, strategies and professional advice. Anything less than that and you will be found wanting.”
Source: Quotable Quotes For Business: Lessons For Success
“You don’t go out looking for happiness. It comes from within, from accepting who you are and living in the present.”
Source: Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories - Series II
“You don't go to Heaven when you die. You get there when you live!”
Source: Homecoming: Crossing the Bridge to the Soul
“You don’t graduate earth by dodging the hard stuff. You outgrow the self that buckles under it.”
Source: 9 Analogies of Consciousness
“You don't grieve love; you celebrate that you had it.”
Source: High Voltage
“You don’t grieve what was hollow.
You don’t ache for what never touched you.
Pain is not failure —
it is the residue of connection.
The echo of something that mattered.
The one who walks the Way
does not rush to mend the tear.
They place a hand beside it.
They let it breathe.
They let it speak
in pulses and silence.”
Source: The Tao of Grief
“You don't grow through successes, you grow through what you go through.”
“You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.”
Source: Betsy and Joe
“You don’t happen to think the first finished story in years is more important? It’s a cat, Jaik, it can fend for itself!” He jabbed a finger at me. “All right, first, you don’t know a thing about Sheeba. Second, why do your problems suddenly have to be my problems? I don’t even know you!” “But my stories know you!”
Source: A Story Spun in Scarlet
“You don't have a choice, I hear. Love just happens to you, whether you like it or not; otherwise there wouldn't be so many songs. Besides, people do all sorts of things that are bad for them. I ought to know.”
Source: Sword Catcher
“You don't have a heartbeat," I realized.
"Does that bother you?" He asked.
"No." I thought for a minute. "As long as you can feel things and care about things."
"It's a misconception that you need a heart to love," Asher whispered into my hair.”
Source: A Beautiful Dark
“You don't have a mommy," Gunnar proclaimed as he walked around Breccan. "Ok, I want my surrogate," Breccan said as he sped up to catch the other men. Darius came forward to walk in step beside Wharick and whispered in a discreet tone, "Please, let me kill him.”
Source: Magnificence
“You don’t have a self confidence issue, you have a self acceptance issue. Once you genuinely accept yourself, you don’t need to ‘be confident’ anymore, you can just ‘be’ yourself.”
“You don’t have a silver spoon in your mouth. You have a golden spoon in your palms. Use it and feed yourself”
Source: Shaping the dream
“You don’t have any control over anyone’s feelings.
You can’t make your parents feel proud of you.
You can’t make anyone like you.
You can’t make anyone love you.
You can make it easier for them, by sacrificing your time and energy, but you cannot MAKE THEM, you can only make it easier for them— and yet again, what have you gained? Nothing. You’re gambling. Putting trust coins into a slot machine hoping that love comes out.”
“You don’t have any friends, your sister dumped you, you’re a freak eater..and you’ve got some weird thing about Simon Snow."
"I object to every single thing you just said."
Reagan chewed. And frowned. She was wearing dark red lipstick.
"I have lots of friends," Cath said.
"I never see them."
"I just got here. Most of my friends went to other schools. Or they’re online."
"Internet friends don’t count."
"Why not?"
Reagan shrugged disdainfully.
"And I don’t have a weird thing with Simon Snow," Cath said. "I’m just really active in the fandom."
"What the fuck is ‘the fandom’?”
Source: Fangirl
“You don’t have any idea how hard it is, do you? Being a parent?[...]”
I shook my head. “Doesn’t matter. That’s not an excuse. As a matter of fact, that should have prevented both of you from ever acting as you did. If you’re responsible enough to become a parent, then you should be responsible enough to accept your kid no matter how they turn out. It doesn’t matter if they’re disabled or gay or not as smart as others or green or black or blue or whatever the hell they turn out to be. You have them, you love them. Always. Being a parent isn’t about getting to pick and choose what you want your kid to be. Being a parent means protecting your kid from anything that could ever harm him. Being a parent means you shelter, but you also make them stronger so one day they can stand on their own. [...]”
Source: Tell Me It's Real
“You don't have any limits because you belong to someone who is unlimited.”
“You don’t have any reason to be mad at me. You stole my life and I stole it back.”
Source: Crossbones
“You don't have anything to give me other than your sin”
“You don't have baths? How--- how?" She couldn't comprehend it.
"I don't know," Scott replied sheepishly. "I just never know what to do when I'm in them."
"I could show y---I mean, I could tell you what you need. Bubbles. Books. And candles." Heat pulsed around Dina's body. Had Scott heard her slip up?”
Source: Best Hex Ever
“You don’t have control over the money in your bank account. That's why the government hate Bitcoin and other blockchain-powered cryptocurrencies. Don’t forget that.”
“You don’t have five but seven elements in your body. Along with air, sky, water, fire and soil; you have soul and emotions. You have all metals in you from iron to zinc to copper to whatnot. You have vision and senses. You have powers of attraction, static charge, and magnetic fields. You have atoms in you.”
Source: Smiling Brahma
“You don't have forever. You have 24 hours each day to live by your values. People remember you only for what was most important in your life.”
“You don't have the experiences you need to succeed. There are people out there who you have what you don't have, speak up, seek for help and you'll surely get it.”
“You don't have the power to punish me when I have given you the power of forgiveness”
“You don't have the right to be called a man, if you don't have respect for a woman.”
“You don't have the right to be called a man, if you not have respect for a woman.”
“You don't have the right to blame others for your own mistakes..”
“You don't have the right to complain about your life if you're not willing to change it”
Source: Feel At Home: Home Staging Secrets for a Quick and Easy Sell
“You don't have the right to make that call, not after all this time. I can barely breathe when you're near me, but I'll surely suffocate if I have to lose you. How can you ask me to do that?" She turned her face away. "I'm stronger than you think." She looked back at him. "And I'll do my own fixing.”
Source: Malevolence
“You don’t have the right to reproduce, unless you are doing your part to reduce carbon emission. Reproduction is an animal tenet but for it to be a human right, the human must carry out the duties that go along with reproduction, that is to make sure the newborns actually have a healthy world to live in, not one infested with disease and geopolitical conflicts.”
Source: Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism
“You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.”
Source: Sisterhood Everlasting
“You don’t have to accept every advice. You must carefully think about it in your quiet moment.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You don’t have to act strong when you are strong.
It is only those who are strong enough to risk being broken that are truly unbreakable.”
Source: Forever and One Day
“You don't have to agree with a person completely, to love them.”
Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets
“You don't have to agree with everything others believe, in order to realize they are human. My teacher (GC), in his childish naivety, used to believe a lot of things that are sheer nonsense, but I still love him. When you love, you accept, when you lack love, you judge. Besides, he is the one who set me on fire for the world.
You see, disagreement and discrimination are two different things. And we gotta focus on eliminating discrimination, not disagreement. We gotta focus on being human, not on being superior to each other. Somos todos idiotas - we are all idiots. The sooner we realize this, the sooner we can behave wise.”
Source: Divane Dynamite: Only truth in the cosmos is love
“YOU DON’T HAVE TO ALWAYS TAKE SIDES!
Did you know, that it is entirely possible to disagree with BOTH self-proclaimed nationalists & those deemed anti-nationals, BOTH right-wing & left-wing hardcores, BOTH ultra-religious people & atheists, BOTH vegans & meat-eaters, BOTH CrossFitters & non-CrossFitters, BOTH ‘cardio’ & ‘non-cardio’ folks, AND BOTH ‘low-carbers’ & ‘high-carbers’?!
It’s called THINKING FOR YOURSELF! It gives you an identity. It‘s a highly pleasurable job too; it involves telling people off. I highly recommend it!”
“You don’t have to announce greatness—confidence does the talking.”
Source: Your Business Venture: The Prep. The Pitch. The Funding.
“You don’t have to answer every question that comes to your mind because some questions are like matryoshka dolls; once opened, new ones come out!”
“You don't have to apologize for loving someone or wanting a life that no longer fits your blueprint. The beginning phase of reclaiming your life always starts with apologizing to yourself, then apologizing to others for wasting their time because of your fear based decisions. The truth is when we eliminate fear we often find the real path we were meant to be on.”
“You don't have to ask me twice, Princess, and you never have to beg.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“You don’t have to attend every argument you are invited to.”
Source: The 6 Pillars of Intimacy: The Secret to an Extraordinary Marriage