Giving Up Quotes
Lines that reject giving up, in sport, policy, and everyday life.
These quotes largely push back against giving up, from a boxer's refusal to quit despite knockouts to a racing driver's reputation for persistence. One line also uses giving up as a metaphor for budget compromise. See Acting quotes for related determination themes.
Playing a rookie at quarterback tells the other players that you're giving up the season.
To cut the federal budget without cutting entitlements is like giving up chocolate-chip cookies and then deciding it's OK to eat the ones that don't have any nuts.
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I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.
About Quotes
Google attempted to run a search engine in China, and they ended up giving up.
Those who are not giving up their nefarious activities even in the holy month of Ramzan, should their activities not be called unholy?
Acting Quotes
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in...
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes.
I have a theory that burnout is about resentment. And you beat it by knowing what it is you're giving up that makes you resentful.
Allegedly Quotes
I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Trump's proposed policies.
After giving up softball, I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought I would try bobsled, but I wasn't really sure what would happen. I thought my athletic career was over.
I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it were going to be ultimately in his best interest.
I was 25 when I'd told my parents that I was giving up steady work as an electrician to become an actor. They couldn't have been less enthusiastic if I'd proposed starting a commercial newt-breeding operation in the bathroom.
Attempted Quotes
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Whether in sport, politics, or personal resolve, these quotes treat giving up as something to be actively resisted. Continue with Attempted quotes for more on effort and risk.
