“The people who ultimately reach their goals are those who don't give up. Instead of wallowing in self-pity or frustration - or throwing in the towel altogether - they explore what didn't work and course-correct.” PeopleGivingSelfCoursesGoalGiving UpPerseverancePityFrustrationThrowingDon't Give UpSelf PityTowelsWallowingThrowing In The Towel Author:Lauren Mackler
“Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.” WayGivingLongCoursesImpossibleGiving UpObstaclesDiscouragedImprobableDon't Ever Give Up Author:Evanna Lynch
“Someone once told me a story about long term relationships. To think of them as a continent to explore. I could spend a lifetime backpacking through Africa, and I would still never know all there is to know about that continent. To stay the course, to stay intentional, to stay curious and connected - that's the heart of it. But it's so easy to lose track of the trail, to get tired, to want to give up, or to want a new adventure. It can be so easy to lose sight of the goodness and mystery within the person sitting right in front of you.” ThinkingKnowsWantGivingHeartPersonsLongStillsStoriesCoursesEasyTermLosesMysteryFrontsAdventureGoodnessGiving UpSittingSightTiredLifetimeTrackConnectedCuriousLong TermContinentsTrailsBackpackingLong Term RelationshipNew Adventure Author:Joy Williams
“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
“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.” ThinkingWorldGivingSaidImportantAgeHateFightingCoursesStrongCausesCreativeExerciseGiving UpAgreeCleanSmellComplainingRelatedMumBe CreativeDon't Hate Author:Isabel Allende
“Spiritual leaders say that as a matter of course prosperity will come when you are pursuing the right things with your life. To feel truly prosperous, you may have to leave the corporate world for good simply because prosperity and freedom go hand in hand. For some people this means having to give up a substantial amount of their income, at least for a certain period of time.” PeopleWorldGivingFeelsMayMeanMatterHandsSpiritualCertainCoursesLeaderAmountPeriodsGiving UpProsperityIncomeCorporateRight ThingProsperousHand In HandSpiritual LeaderCorporate World Author:Ernie J Zelinski
“Be persistent and never give up. I had to deal with facing stereotypes and had a lot of people doubt me and my ability to drum, but I didn't let it phase me. You just have to believe in yourself. And of course, PRACTICE.” PeopleGivingBelieveCoursesAbilityDealsPracticeDoubtGiving UpBelieve In YourselfPhasesStereotypeBelieve In YouNever Giving UpPersistentDoubt Me Author:Jess Bowen
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.” PeopleGivingShouldMayMeanRealValuesCoursesLostGrowthStepsSecuritySafeDemandGiving UpOppositesPatternsSurrenderFamiliarTemporaryNew Words Author:Gail Sheehy
“If we feel that any habit or pursuit, harmless in itself, is keeping us from God and sinking us deeper in the things of earth; if we find that things which others can do with impunity are for us the occasion of falling, then abstinence is our only course. Abstinence alone can recover for us the real value of what should have been for our help but which has been an occasion of falling. ... It is necessary that we should steadily resolve to give up anything that comes between ourselves and God.” IfsGivingFeelsShouldHas BeensRealHelpingEarthValuesFallCoursesCan DoHabitGiving UpShould HaveDeeperPursuitOccasionsResolveShould Have BeenSinkingAbstinenceImpunityReal Value Author:William Ralph Inge
“Sometimes, of course, the artist does give up, saying, in effect, "I've done enough". Prospero declares that the revels are ended, and breaks his staff - his author retires to Stratford. At the very end, Mann did something similar. Interestingly, in both instances, death came quite quickly after that.” GivingDoeEndsSometimesDoneEnoughArtistCoursesBreakEffectsGiving UpInstanceRetiringStaffProspero Author:Philip Kitcher
“Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him, you realize that he actually respected and knew about the theatricality and he'd rather take a ship by threatening and having the power of his personality and the threat of the oncoming danger to sway the ship to just acquiesce and just give up their cargo and so none of his crew got hurt and they would just take their bounty and he wouldn't have to kill anybody, but of course he earned that reputation, so he was no saint.” GivingCoursesRealizingHurtTeachDangerPersonalityGiving UpThreatSaintShipsReputationTallCrewThreateningBountyLarger Than LifeCargoJust Give UpGot Hurt Author:Ray Stevenson
“Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it's giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you'd be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you've taken.” IfsWayGivingTryingYearsLittlesLife IsCoursesGoalStepsTakenBabyTerribleGiving UpAddSeriesAddictionIllnessTinyAmazedStrideBaby Steps Author:Hoda Kotb
“Perseverance means to continue in a given course until we have reached a goal or objective, regardless of obstacles, opposition, and other counterinfluences...Perseverance is a positive, active characteristic...It gives us hope by helping us realize that the righteous suffer no failure except in giving up and no longer trying.” GivingTryingMeanHelpingSufferingCoursesGivenGoalRealizingGiving UpPerseveranceObstaclesActiveObjectivesCharacteristicsOppositionRighteousLdsNo Failure Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin
“Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?” IfsThinkingGivingShouldMightActionCoursesUnderstandingDifferencesChanceDecisionCasesKnowingFateGiving UpOptimismChaosTerrorGet UpCheerHere And NowPessimistFutility Author:Salman Rushdie
“"With any major decision there are cautions and considerations to make, but once there has been illumination, beware the temptation to retreat from a good thing. If it was right when you prayed about it and trusted it and lived for it, it ...is right now. Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Certainly don't go to that being who is bent on your destruction of your happiness. Face your doubts. Master your fears. 'Cast not away therefore your confidence.' Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.” IfsGivingHas BeensFacesCoursesDecisionDoubtMastersRight NowGiving UpMajorsDestructionPressureGood ThingsCastsTemptationConsiderationTrustedBentRetreatCautionIlluminationDon't Give UpBeauty Of Life Author:Jeffrey R. Holland
“He was giving up on keeping me alive, letting nature–or rather mob justice–take its course. When he returned, and I was dead, he wouldn't hold anyone responsible. He would not mourn. All this I could hear in those three words.” GivingThreeCoursesJusticeAliveGiving UpResponsibleMournThree Words Author:Stephenie Meyer
“When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!” GivingFeelsHardSeemsCoursesMinutesBearsPeriodsGiving UpNever Giving UpWorth Reading Author:Rumi
“I'd loved in so many bodies, but never one I loved like this. Never one that I craved in this way. Of course, this would be the one I'd have to give up. The irony made me laugh, and I concentrated on the feel of the air that popped in little bubbles from my chest and up through my throat. Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body, making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer? I couldn't remember one.” WayGivingFeelsLittlesMadeBodyWould BeRememberCoursesSimpleLaughingAirGiving UpLaughterSpeciesFeel GoodIronyChestsThroatBubblesBreezeHealer Author:Stephenie Meyer
“ll K Hamilton Some days the lion eats you, but some times you shove your arm down it's throat and pull it's visera out through it's mouth and kill it. Of course, sometimes it bites your arm off, and then eats you, but you tried, that's what counts. Some days it's not about winning, but about fighting. If you don't try, the lion will most definetely eat you. But sometimes when you put your all into something, and don't give up even when the odds are so against you, you surprise the lion and yourself, and you win.” IfsGivingTryingSometimesFightingCoursesWinningArmsGiving UpMouthsSurpriseThroatLionsBitesOddsDon't Give UpHamilton Author:Laurell K. Hamilton
“Why did she give up wine for Lent? Polly was more sensible. She had given up strawberry jam. Cecilia had never seen Polly show more than a passing interest in strawberry jam, although now, of course, she was always catching her standing at the open fridge, staring at it longingly. The power of denial.” GivingShowsCoursesGivenInterestGiving UpStandingWinePassingPassingsDenialStaringSensibleCatchingGiven UpJamStrawberriesFridges Author:Liane Moriarty
“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.” GivingMindAgeCoursesEffortSecretAttitudeRichFocusGiving UpPercentNever Giving UpExpertiseGet RichMind Set Author:T. Harv Eker