Explore Quotes on Giving Up

There's an importance of keeping an open mind. The brain is programmed to protect us, and that can mean imposing limits on what it thinks we can or should do. Constantly push at those limits, because the brain can be way too cautious.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. Unfortunately, some people don't get to the other side... They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

I'm here to tell you that a champion is someone who has fallen off the horse a dozen times and gotten back on the horse a dozen times. Successful people never give up.

I don't promote giving up. I promote fighting and winning.

There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.

Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.

The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

Good things come slow, especially in distance running.

Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.

The human spirit is indomitable. No one can ever say you must not run faster than this or jump higher than that. There will never be a time when the human spirit will not be able to better existing records.

To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.

I want my time spent running to serve as a reward.

You can not retain a true and clear vision of wealth if you are constantly turning your attention to opposing pictures, whether they be external or imaginary.

There are a lot of guys out there now who know they are not working as hard as other people. I can't fathom how they think.

God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.