Quotes on Not Giving Up

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

The best way out is always through.

Propose theories which can be criticized. Think about possible decisive falsifying experiments-crucial experiments. But do not give up your theories too easily-not, at any rate, before you have critically examined your criticism.

We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Prayer gives us strength for great ideals, for keeping up our faith, charity, purity, generosity; prayer gives us strength to rise up from indifference and guilt, if we have had the misfortune to give in to temptation and weakness. Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don’t know anything. I mean, I can break something down, but ultimately I don’t know anything when I start work on a new movie. You start stabbing out, and you make a mistake, and it’s not right, and then you try again and again. The key is you have to commit. And that’s hard because you have to find what it is you are committing to.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over them would not occur ... protecting the global environment is directly related to securing peace. Those of us who understand the complex concept of the environment have the burden to act. We must not tire, we must not give up, we must persist.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.