“Fighting teaches you a lot about yourself. When you fight you are in a situation where failure can happen. This chance of failure forges your character in many ways and makes you realise how mentally tough you have to be as a fighter. This mental toughness will transfer into your everyday life, giving you drive and a clear concise attitude, where giving up is not an option” WayGivingCharacterHappensFightingChanceAttitudeSituationTeachClearGiving UpToughEverydayFighterMmaRealisingAbout YourselfEveryday LifeTransfersToughnessGiving Up Is Not An OptionConciseMental ToughnessMentally Tough Author:Daniel Hudson
“A lot of people complain about yesterday. We have no power to change yesterday. But this very day, 30 years later, is what we can control and decide. Change yourself, take baby steps, and stay determined for ten years. I thank the times of change and everyone’s complaints. Because when everyone is complaining, that is your chance, an opportunity. It’s only in times of change that someone can be clear of what he has and wants, and what he needs to give up.” PeopleWantNeedsGivingYearsOpportunityChanceStepsClearBabyTenGiving UpDeterminedComplainingYesterdayComplaintsChange YourselfPower To ChangeBaby Steps Author:Jack Ma
“When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates.” GivingSelfChristianBeliefClearMoralityGiving UpOneselfSpiteLatterAgain And AgainEvidentChristian Morality Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are those, of course, who claim we must give up freedom in exchange for economic progress. Well, pardon me, but anyone trying to sell you that line is no better than a three-card-trick man. One thing becoming more clear every day is that freedom and progress go hand in hand. Throughout the developing world, people are rejecting socialism because they see that it doesn't empower people, it impoverishes them.” PeopleMenWorldGivingTryingWellsHandsThreeCoursesLinesClearProgressOne ThingEconomicBecomingGiving UpClaimsSellsTricksSocialismCardsDevelopingEmpoweringPardonHand In HandBecoming MoreRejectingPardon MeEconomic ProgressCard Tricks Author:Ronald Reagan
“Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and more than a billion people are barely able to afford to eat - it would somehow be good for the planet to clear rain-forests to grow palm oil, or give up food-crop land to grow biofuels, solely so that people could burn fuel derived from carbohydrate rather than hydrocarbons in their cars, thus driving up the price of food for the poor. Ludicrous is too weak a word for this heinous crime.” PeopleWorldGivingWritingAbleGrowsPoorClearLandCarCrimePlanetsPoliticianGiving UpRainWeakNotesSpeciesDareOilBe GoodBillionsDrivingForestsFuelSatirePalmsCropsVanishingCarbohydratesBiofuelsHydrocarbonsHeinous CrimesPalm Oil Author:Matt Ridley
“It will take an unprecedented act of courage, on a grand scale. You may have to do something virtually unknown in the annals of human history. ... You may have to give up some of your most sacred beliefs. ... let me make something clear.” GivingHumansMayBeliefClearGiving UpLet MeSacredScalesHuman HistoryUnprecedentedActs Of Courage Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“Just because your direction has never been clear to you does not mean that you must give up.” GivingMeanDoeClearGiving Up Author:Timothy Treadwell
“Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects.” GivingShouldMeanReasonGovernmentEnergyClearInternetGiving UpProjectsAlternativesPetBubblesVentureSteersVenture CapitalAlternative Energy Author:James Surowiecki
“I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!” GivingMayArtFallPerfectClearGiving UpSkinsLet MeCleverTeethEvolveFurnitureChipsSwedish Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldnt give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.” GivingChildrenI CanClearGiving UpMy ChildrenRevealing Book:The Awakening Source: The Awakening
“Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.” IfsWantGivingWritingUseWorryClearCommunicationGiving UpAssumingCommunicateSentencesTelephones Author:Richard Hugo
“When a patient says he feels stuck and confused, and through good intentions he struggles to become loose and clear, he only remains chronically trapped in the mire of his own stubbornness. If instead he will go with where he is, only then is there hope. If he will let himself get deeply into the experience of being stuck, only then will he reclaim that part of himself that is holding him. Only if he will give up trying to control his thinking, and let himself sink into his confusion, only then will things become clear. (64)” IfsThinkingGivingFeelsTryingStruggleClearGiving UpRemainsIntentionPatientStuckConfusionConfusedTrappedGood IntentionsStubbornness Author:Sheldon B. Kopp
“The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it. 2. If you known where you want to go, you're already half way there. Know what you desire but, more imporantly, why you desire it. Then go. 3. hopes and dreams and heart's desires require a clear path-get out of your own way 4. Place hope carefully in your own hands and in the hands of others 5. Persist, if necessary 6. That said, most importantly-know when you've reached an end, Quit, give up, do it with courage. Giving up is not failing-it's the chance to begin again.” IfsKnowsWayWantGivingHeartSaidEndsDreamHandsDesireChanceHalfKnownPathClearFailingGiving UpSixQuittingPersistHopes And DreamsBegin AgainHalf Way Author:Deb Caletti
“Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be under a confusion of communication. I did not come here to ask for your sister’s hand. I came to tell you I will marry Hero, with or without your permission, Your Grace. She has lain with me more than once. She may well be carrying my child. And if you think that I’ll give up either her or our babe, you have not done nearly enough research into my character or history.” IfsThinkingGivingWellsMayChildrenDoneEnoughCharacterHandsSeemsEyeAsksClearGraceCommunicationArmsHeroGiving UpResearchConfusionMy ChildrenPermissionDesksBabeOutraged Author:Elizabeth Hoyt
“When praying for the Lord's will about something questionable, don't give up if you don't receive clear leading after one prayer; just keep on praying until God makes it clear.” IfsGivingPrayerLordClearPrayingGiving UpDon't Give UpQuestionable Author:Curtis Hutson