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Ifs Giving Matter Giving Up Just Give Up

“I am sincerely grateful to everyone who did not let me pass my auditions. If I had gotten in too easily, I wouldn't have worked as hard. Thanks to them, I've gained more strength and I've learned what it means to never give up.”

Ifs Giving Mean Hard Giving Up Let Me Grateful Thanks I've Learned Auditions Never Giving Up Sincerely

Author:IU

“So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing”

Ifs Needs Giving Mind States Moments Next Waiting Enjoy Giving Up Standing Sorry Present Moment State Of Mind Next Time Snaps Slipping Saying Sorry

Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Even if there comes a time when you do not hear my voice, do not give up. Do not despair. Do not stop fighting for your freedom until you have victory!”

Ifs Giving Fighting Voice Victory Despair Giving Up Not Giving Up There Comes A Time Your Freedom Do Not Give Up

Author:Muammar al-Gaddafi

“If you give up on your dreams, what's left?”

Ifs Giving Dream Left Giving Up Your Dreams Starving Risk-taking Chance And Risk Risks And Taking Chances Starving Yourself

Author:Jim Carrey

“The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Given Acting Giving Up Vulnerable Privileged Moaning

Author:Paddy Considine

“If you know that something is true and just, and you give up, thats when you fail.”

Ifs Knows Giving Failing Giving Up

Author:Andrew Forrest

“If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love.”

Ifs Giving Kindness Fields Flower Giving Up Resilience Brilliant Bread Literacy Elation

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“If I had to give up performing, it wouldn't bother me too much. But I couldn't live without my writing. I put all my feelings, my very soul, into my writing. I tell the world in my songs things I wouldn't even tell my husband.”

Ifs World Giving Writing Soul Feelings Song Work Too Much Husband Giving Up Bother Performing My Husband

Author:Dolly Parton

“If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an asshole because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic.”

Ifs Giving Stills Drug Giving Up Excuse Junkie

Author:Jerry Stahl

“The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.”

Ifs Giving Shows Giving Up Get Better Don't Give Up Bad Times

Author:Louis C. K.

“You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.”

Ifs Giving Reason Use Might Faith Realizing Accepting Plans Giving Up Slips

Book:I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Source: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

“We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.”

Ifs World Giving Country Whole Young Giving Up Whole World Ireland Estates Not Giving Up

Book:The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection

Source: The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection

“In prayer one must hold fast and never let go, because the one who gives up loses all. If it seems that no one is listening to you, then cry out even louder. If you are driven out of one door, go back in by the other.”

Ifs Giving Seems Loses Prayer Doors Cry Listening Letting Go Giving Up Driven Hold Fast Never Let Go

Author:Jane Frances de Chantal

“Great photography comes about at the right time but it also needs the right cut that enhances that precise moment. Photography must feed on both contents and form, if it gives up the one for the other it is not going to last.”

Ifs Needs Giving Moments Lasts Form Cutting Giving Up Photography Precise Right Time Great Photography

Author:Augusto De Luca

“If it hurt me to have to give up a painting I figured it had to hurt them to write the check. That's how I came up with the price for my work.”

Ifs Giving Writing Hurt Painting Giving Up Checks It Hurts Hurt Me

Author:Keariene Muizz

“I don't want to get married ... I'm certainly not going to give up the work I've wanted to do all my life for the sake of it, any more than I'd expect my husband, if he were a doctor or a lawyer, for example, to give up practising medicine or law in order to marry me.”

Ifs Want Giving Wanted Law Order Marriage Example Husband Giving Up Married Doctors Medicine Sake Lawyer My Husband Marry Me

Author:Gwethalyn Graham

“For me white privilege has turned out to be an elusive and fugitive subject. The pressure to avoid it is great, for in facing it I must give up the myth of meritocracy. If these things are true, this is not such a free country; one's life is not what one makes it; many doors open for certain people through no virtues of their own.”

People Ifs Giving Country Life Is Certain White Virtue Doors Subjects Giving Up Racism Pressure Privilege Myth Elusive White Privilege Fugitive Meritocracy Free Country

Author:Peggy McIntosh

“We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself.”

Ifs Want Giving Mind Ideas Hands Given Waiting Giving Up Silly Do It Yourself Make Up Your Mind Folding Waiting On God

Author:Marcus Garvey

“God won't permit temptation beyond your strength. It is true that temptations come to all, but God will give you the graces you need to withstand them, if you ask him to and if you are willing to cooperate with his grace...In God's presence, consider: Do I put up a fight when temptations beset me, or do I give up quickly and surrender myself to them without a struggle? Do I rely on God's grace to conquer temptations, or am I conquered by them?”

Ifs Needs Giving Fighting Asks Struggle Grace Willing Giving Up Surrender Gods Will Temptation Conquer Rely Permit God's Grace God's Presence

Author:Patrick Madrid

“If you don't have a passion, you'll give up.”

Ifs Giving Passion Giving Up

Author:Steve Jobs

“My philosophy is "Where is it written that at 40 you give up all your toys?" If I'm still having a great time doing something, I'm going to keep on doing it.”

Ifs Giving Stills Philosophy Written Giving Up Toys Great Times

Author:Guy Fieri

“Jesus offered a single incentive to follow himto summarize his selling point: 'Follow me, and you might be happy-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be empowered-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have more friends-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have the answers-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be better off-or you might not. If you follow me, you may be worse off in every way you use to measure life. Follow me nevertheless. Because I have an offer that is worth giving up everything you have: you will learn to love well.'”

Ifs Way Giving Wells May Use Might Jesus Answers Offers Giving Up Selling Nevertheless Better Off Incentives Empowered Follow Me

Author:Samir Selmanovic

“As long as we see abusers as victims, or as out-of-control monsters, they will continue getting away with ruining lives. If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.”

Ifs Want Giving Long Giving Up Victim Monsters Luxury Get Away Exploitation Abusers

Book:Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“If we want abusers to change, we will have to require them to give up the luxury of exploitation.”

Ifs Want Giving Giving Up Luxury Exploitation Abusers

Book:Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Source: Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game. I always, always get my picture taken with my mouth wide open and a tortilla chip sticking out of it!”

Ifs Giving Games Taken Giving Up Mouths Wide Nba Chips Never Giving Up Mexican Picture Taken Mexican Food Sticking Out Tortillas Nachos

Author:Eva Longoria

“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

“To be in the music industry, to be in any kind of entertainment industry, you really, really have to be passionate about it and love it and persevere, because if that passion isn't there, it's easy to give up. If you really want it, the ambition is there, it'll come. It's definitely harder work than some people think.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Giving Kind Passion Easy Industry Giving Up Ambition And Love Harder Passionate Entertainment Persevere Music Industry Entertainment Industry Easy To Give Up

Author:Alexandra Chando

“How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret.”

Ifs Knows World Giving Mind Humans Force Secret Know How Ready Bears Limits Giving Up Blow Concentration Human Mind Power Of The Mind Ready To Give Up

Book:Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature

Source: Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature

“This generation has a responsibility to reshape the world. Start the task even if it will not be fulfilled in your lifetime. Even if it seems hopeless now, never give up. Offer a positive vision, with enthusiasm and joy, and an optimistic outlook.”

Ifs World Giving Seems Joy Responsibility Vision Generations Offers Giving Up Tasks Lifetime Optimistic Enthusiasm Hopeless Fulfilled Outlook Never Giving Up This Generation

Author:Dalai Lama

“Take a random group of 8-year-old American and Japanese kids, give them all a really, really hard math problem, and start a stopwatch. The American kids will give up after 30, 40 seconds. If you let the test run for 15 minutes, the Japanese kids will not have given up. You have to take it away.”

Ifs Giving Years Hard Problem Running Kids Given Groups Minutes Giving Up Tests Math Seconds Given Up Math Problems

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Feminists have to question, not just all of Western culture, but the organization of culture itself, and further, even the very organization of nature. Many women give up in despair: if that's how deep it goes they don't want to know.”

Ifs Knows Want Giving Culture Despair Giving Up Organization Western Feminist Western Culture

Book:The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

Source: The dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution

“These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it’s about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help. But ultimately it’s about not giving up. People are led to believe that if it’s not perfect then just ditch it and change it, these days. That’s a mistake.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Believe Helping Perfect Mistake Promise Giving Up Compromise These Days Not Giving Up Not Perfect

Author:Simon Le Bon

“If you can no longer think about the future, and you once dreamed of everlasting love, don't give up the dream, find it again.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Dream Giving Up Everlasting Don't Give Up Lasting Love Everlasting Love

Book:Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson

Source: Four Short Plays by Lanford Wilson

“Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.”

Ifs Want Giving Jesus Giving Up

Author:Eric Ludy

“I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Giving Moments Wanted Dies Knowing Design Tomorrow Giving Up Clothes Wake Up

Author:Ayumi Hamasaki

“Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.”

Ifs Giving Writing Trying Effort Giving Up Masterpiece

Author:Lauren Tarshis

“If you love anything better than God you are idolaters: if there is anything you would not give up for God it is your idol: if there is anything that you seek with greater fervor than you seek the glory of God, that is your idol, and conversion means a turning from every idol.”

Ifs Giving Mean Greater Giving Up Glory Conversion Idols Not Giving Up Idolatry Glory Of God Fervor

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you - I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.”

Ifs World Love Giving I Can Ends Lasts Names Left Memories Wife Love You Giving Up Let Me Breaths Breathe Take Me Devoted Life And Love Forsake Let Me Go

Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“In our competitive world we're taught to never quit trying, never give up, and never give in - so we don't hear much about surrendering. If winning is everything, surrendering is unthinkable. Even Christians would rather talk about winning, succeeding, overcoming, and conquering than yielding, submitting, obeying, and surrendering. But surrendering to God is the heart of worship.”

“A lot of people give up, but you cant stop me. If you close the door, Ill just jump out the window.”

People Ifs Giving Doors Giving Up Window Ill Cant

Author:Diane Warren

“My opinion has always been this, that you ought to never give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might just as well look you up this morning.”

Ifs Men Giving Wells Looks Long Use Might Lasts Night Left Opinion Morning Air Son Ought Giving Up Authority Picks Claims Breaths Rate Handle Bread My Son Stolen Never Giving Up Last Night Loan

Author:Halldór Laxness

“Go with your instinct and your gut. It sounds cliché, but never give up and just keep on. If you really believe in it, you have to just dive in and go for it.”

Ifs Giving Believe Sound Giving Up Instinct Guts Never Giving Up

Author:Alexander Wang

“Basically that you can do anything. If you pool your resources,and just give up the idea that you're going to act like a normal person or sleep, if you want it hard enough and do it well enough, it happens. A lot of really talented people either sort of get crushed under the wheel of the movie studio system or desperately try and get their next gig in TV. I understand why, because we've all got to put food on the table and the brass ring is out there, we'd all like to be making the Emmy-winning shows and the blockbusters and all that, but at the same time you could be doing stuff yourself.”

“I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poverty, she became a drudge; if she married wealth, she became a doll. Had I married at twenty-one, I would have been either a drudge or a doll for fifty-five years. Think of it!”

Ifs Thinking Men Giving Years Has Beens Young Girl Felt Wealth Freedom Marriage Poverty Five Giving Up Married Twenties Five Years Fifty Dolls Twenty One Housekeepers

Author:Susan B. Anthony

“Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?”

Ifs Giving Writing Doe Different Science Next Tomorrow Promise One Day Giving Up Mathematics Series Smoking Giving Up Smoking

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.”

Ifs Giving Ideas Language Born Cases Giving Up Structure Philosopher Defined Acquire Users Linguistics Relativism Linguists

Author:Donald Davidson

“I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.”

Ifs Giving Has Beens Book Joy Reading Memories Fields Giving Up Advantage Gold Pursuit If I Could Occupation Reading Books Explorers Misers

Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“If you don't give up your hopes and dreams, then there will always be a good ending.”

Ifs Giving Dream Giving Up Don't Give Up Hopes And Dreams Shinee Good Endings

Author:Choi Minho

“I'm idealistic so my life outlook is to never give up. Even if something seems absolutely impossible, I will run as hard as I can go.”

Ifs Giving I Can Hard Seems Running Impossible Giving Up Outlook Never Giving Up Idealistic

Author:Choi Minho

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