Quotes on Giving Up

Remember that unjust critisism is often a disquised compliment.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

If you imagine that you will be able to achieve your ideal by ingeniously planning out a timetable with a pen on a piece of paper, you had better give up hope at once.If you are not prepared for discouragements and disillusions;_x000D_ if you will not be content with a small result for a big effort, then do not begin. Lie down again and resume the uneasy doze which you call your existence.

The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. Similarly, when you give up this bodily dress at death you do not change. You are just the same, an immortal soul, a child of God.

Where constraint breaks people, and mediation makes fools of them, the seduction of power is what makes them love their oppression. Because of it, people give up their real riches for a cause that mutilates them; for an appearance that reifies them; for roles that wrest them from authentic life; for a time whose passage defines and confines them.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

We may not know when or how the Lord's answers will be given, but in His time and His way, I testify, His answers will come. For some answers we may have to wait until the hereafter. This may be true for some promises in our patriarchal blessings and for some blessings for family members. Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

Never give up your power to another person.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.