Best giving-up & age Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm looking for trouble. A lot of people get to be a certain age and they just kind of lose interest or they give up. But I'm looking for trouble.”

People Giving Kind Age Certain Interest Loses Trouble Giving Up

Author:John Mellencamp

“In early childhood, children develop a set of symbols that 'stand for' things they see in the world around them... Children are happy with symbolic drawing until about the age of eight or nine... when children develop a passion for realism. Our schools do not provide drawing instruction. Children try on their own to discover the secrets of realistic drawing, but nearly always fail and, sadly, give up on trying.”

World Giving Trying Children Age School Passion Secret Failing Childhood Giving Up Eight Drawing Nine Symbols Realistic Instruction Realism Symbolic Early Childhood

Author:Betty Edwards

“If a man is to become fully himself - and this is not something that happens automatically just because you arrive at a particular age - he is going to have to give up some things in the process. Be it drugs, infidelity, childishness, lying, fear of intimacy, violence - none of these things contribute to being a man”

Ifs Men Giving Happens Age Lying Process Violence Particular Drug Giving Up Intimacy Infidelity Childishness

Author:Rod Stryker

“When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.”

Way Giving Years Age Felt Parent Born Cry Arms Giving Up Decided Asking Suicide Legs Graves Commit Worried My Future Arms And Legs Asking Why Born This Way Loving Parents

Author:Nick Vujicic

“There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory.”

Giving Children Age Faces Death Dies Waiting Sweet Victory Giving Up Angel Shadow Saint Ghost Anguish Bosoms

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like hes a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that youre on your way into the grave.”

Ifs Men Way Giving Feels Years Looks Made Age Film Guy Becoming Giving Up Percent Graves Coming Of Age Admitting Becoming A Man

Author:Kevin Bacon

“My mum said that as you age you have to smell good and be clean and don't hate anybody because that makes you older. Um I don't agree. I think that of course you have to smell good and be clean but there's much more that you have to do. Don't complain, exercise, be be strong, um work, be creative, be related to the world, have causes, fight for them passionately. I think all those things are important. I I'm not going to give up and just smell good.”

Thinking World Giving Said Important Age Hate Fighting Courses Strong Causes Creative Exercise Giving Up Agree Clean Smell Complaining Related Mum Be Creative Don't Hate

Author:Isabel Allende

“I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.”

People Thinking Giving Important Dream Age Young Creative Giving Up I Realized Pursue Be Creative Not Giving Up Young Age

Author:Josh Peck

“Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.”

People Ifs Giving Firsts Light Age Asks Giving Up Passing Passings Ask Me Not Giving Up Torches Listen To Me Listen To Yourself

Author:Gloria Steinem

“There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.”

Giving Stills Age Sex Power Giving Up Fairs Birthday Flirting Flirty Supposition

Book:A Johnson Sampler

Source: A Johnson Sampler

“At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.”

Giving Age Able Young Giving Up My Friends Hanging Out Young Age

Author:Victoria Justice

“One of the things I did during my 17 years as a psychiatric social worker was go around and find people with mental crutches, and every time I found one, I kicked those goddamn crutches until they flew. You know what happened? Every single one of those people has been able to walk without the crutches better, in fact. Were they giving up anything intrinsically valuable? Just their irrational reliance upon superstitions and supernatural nonsense. Perhaps this sort of claptrap was good for the Stone Age, when people actually believed that if they prayed for rain they would get it.”

“You have to explain to little children 'why' and you also have to listen to them and believe me, they will reason with you, they're unbelievable! So you can learn from everyone at any age. Life is about listening, leaning and never giving up. As long as you're here on earth, you're here for a purpose and it's not about you it's about what you can do to better the world you live in. And that's why I'm here, to help someone else up.”

World Giving Believe Children Long Reason Helping Age Earth Purpose Listening Giving Up Believe In Me Unbelievable Never Giving Up

Author:Leah Chase

“Everybody comes up with this term lucky-"Oh, she's so lucky." Even though I was lucky, I had a lot of struggle before that. I said I was going to give up everything at age 25 and get into event management because nothing was going for me. I used to have a lot of nervous breakdowns.”

Giving Age Term Struggle Lucky Giving Up Management Nervous Breakdown So Lucky Nervous Breakdown

Author:Freida Pinto

“Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.”

Men Giving Age Known Please Giving Up Crucial

Author:Joyce Maynard

“Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

“At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations and pondering all those big questions about the existence of God and the nature of evil and the mystery of death, questions which seemed more important than anything else in the would until a few years passed and some real questions had been dumped into your lap, like how to earn a living, and why people fell in and out of love, and how long you could carry on smoking and then give up without getting lung cancer.”

“Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again”

Ifs Love Giving May Real Light Age Love Is Darkness Terrible Despair Giving Up And Love Deeper Not Giving Up Love And Courage Real Courage

Author:David Clement-Davies

“The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.”

Giving Age Giving Up Luxury Vanity

Book:TransAtlantic

Source: TransAtlantic

“In my experience, getting rich takes focus, courage, knowledge, expertise, 100 percent of your effort, a never-give-up attitude and of course a rich mind-set.”

Giving Mind Age Courses Effort Secret Attitude Rich Focus Giving Up Percent Never Giving Up Expertise Get Rich Mind Set

Author:T. Harv Eker

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