Welcome to the world of Giving Up Quotes, a collection of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes that revolve around the theme of perseverance, determination, and the art of never giving up. Life often presents us with challenges and obstacles that can make us feel like surrendering is the only option. However, it is in these moments that the power of resilience and persistence shines the brightest. Whether you’re looking for words of encouragement, motivation, or simply a reminder that you’re not alone in your struggles, you’ve come to the right place.
On this page, you’ll find a treasure trove of quotes that capture the essence of not giving up, even when the going gets tough. These quotes can serve as your daily dose of inspiration or be the perfect addition to your social media posts, presentations, or personal artwork. Feel free to copy them, pair them with beautiful images, or enhance them with stylish fonts to share with your friends and followers. Let these quotes be your beacon of hope and resilience in your journey through life’s challenges. So, without further ado, explore the world of Giving Up Quotes below
For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard – that whole side of it, the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control of it. Michelle Pfeiffer
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist. Stephen Stills
You have moments when you sulk, when you crib and cry and feel that, ‘why me and why all these things are happening with me.’ We are only human. It’s about facing your fear and not giving up because you are the only person who will support yourself at the end of the day and if you dont do that than nobody else will. Vaani Kapoor
Winning is fun… Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you’ve done is the point. Pat Summitt
I was sure we would never see the adoption of the Euro. Countries giving up their currencies for a common tender was, it seemed to me, completely out of tune with currency being a carrier of people’s cultural identity, celebrating national heroes and events, as it had been for hundreds of years. John Naisbitt
Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights. Alan Moore
When you’re scared, you’re still hanging on to life. When you’re ready to die, you let it go. A sort of emptying out occurs, a giving up on the world that seems oddly familiar even if you’ve never done it before. Sebastian Junger
The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that’s a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying. Callie Thorne
If you mind tells your body you can’t do it, you will quit. If your body is giving up, but you think you can carry on, you will naturally keep putting one foot in front of the other. Ant Middleton
I’m hungrier than all of them. They didn’t put in the effort that I did to get the title. So I don’t care what it takes – I’m not giving up that title. I worked too hard to get it, and I’m not going to lose it. Stipe Miocic
There were some situations where I was giving up everything I had for the band and I just expected everybody else to feel the same way. I realized I was just kidding myself. Jerry Only
I was almost giving up because the chemo was so intense and aggressive that there were moments I had to find the inner strength within myself. Taboo
Giving up is something a Lauda doesn’t do. Niki Lauda
Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up. Daniel Pipes
That the object of the Brahmins in giving up beef-eating was to snatch away from the Buddhist Bhikshus the supremacy they had acquired is evidenced by the adoption of vegetarianism by Brahmins. B. R. Ambedkar
I wish the press were paying more attention to the erosion of the Constitution and the slippery slope that we’re getting into, by giving up the right of the Congress to talk about when and how and where we go to war. Barbara Lee
We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. Evo Morales
Many think that the price of discipleship is too costly and too burdensome. For some, it involves giving up too much. But the cross is not as heavy as it appears to be. Through obedience, we acquire much greater strength to carry it. James E. Faust
We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice. Jim Mattis
I had parents who believed I could do anything – and I know how that made me feel. I think both my parents, having careers in the medical profession, feel they are helping people on a daily basis, and that was inculcated in me as a value. I had to struggle with giving up the idea of becoming a doctor myself. Reese Witherspoon
I gave up coffee. It’s almost worse than giving up a lover. Sandra Bullock
I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding. David Antin
In 1906, just as we were definitely giving up the old shed laboratory where we had been so happy, there came the dreadful catastrophe which took my husband away from me and left me alone to bring up our children and, at the same time, to continue our work of research. Marie Curie
I hate the Communists and have for many years and don’t feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this. Elia Kazan
Playing a rookie at quarterback tells the other players that you’re giving up the season. Troy Aikman
If you said, ‘I’m giving up smoking,’ people would put on a parade. If you said, ‘I’m going to eat more healthily,’ people would say, ‘Good for you.’ If it’s drinking, the first reaction is, ‘That’s so boring. You’re going to be so boring.’ Kate Garraway
I actually have this fantasy of giving up my cell phone. Julia Stiles
Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up. Colin Powell
I’m not giving up acting, I’m definitely not going to stop. Shane West
It is everyone’s prerogative to retire. But it’s like giving up on life as far as I’m concerned. Roger Taylor
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. Anna Quindlen
I don’t give in and I don’t believe in giving up. This comes naturally to me, I know no other way. Dia Mirza
The nice girl thinks she’s giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she’s depleted. Sherry Argov
I wore a padded bra every single day and night from the age of 14 until I was 31. Giving up padding was my New Year’s resolution. I had known for ages that wearing a stuffed bra was a form of hiding my real body. Sara Pascoe
I ain’t giving up on myself, so if you give up on me, I ain’t got nothing else to say for you. Future
When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That’s when the sparkle started for me. Mary Karr
I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn’t something that you should do. Jessica Lynch
After ‘The Real Thing,’ I thought about giving up acting because it’s difficult to have a rich life outside your work when you’re an actress, a private life that can survive being picked up and put down. That’s what I thought, anyway. Jennifer Ehle
I feel I could be a role model to other Hispanic gymnasts interested in the sport, but I also want them to understand the importance of being focused, determined, and not giving up, despite all the struggles. Laurie Hernandez
There is a huge difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn’t work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up. True success comes from failing repeatedly and as quickly as possible, before your cash or your willpower runs out. Jay Samit
The only real failure is giving up. Scooter Braun
I don’t think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost – certainly not to the point of giving up – but there’s something to be said for a book that isn’t instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading. John M. Ford
I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It’s a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility. Alan Dean Foster
If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I’m saying is common sense. It’s very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values. Ai Weiwei
Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant, selfish, petty, fat, spoilt, stupid car abusers into giving up their addiction and walking. Giles Coren
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. Marissa Mayer
My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times. Jeremy Lin
Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and escape is not possible, giving up short of dying and making the best you can of the new situation is also good for your genes. Keith Henson
With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you’re particularly tired, but most of the time, you’re fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you’re better off just giving up and admitting that you’re not going to, so forget about it. Deirdre O’Kane
My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly. Pancho Villa
You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head. Allison Anders
Between 2018 and 2020, I contemplated giving up the sport at various points. Ravichandran Ashwin
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, ‘You know what? I’m giving up, I don’t care.’ And then you go to bed and you wake up and it’s a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again. Nicole Scherzinger
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. Marilyn vos Savant
The industrial thing came about mainly through giving up trying to write pop songs in the early ’90s. I don’t think I was ever very good at pop music and as soon as I stopped trying, and started to write more the things I loved, it became much heavier and more aggressive. Gary Numan
It’s a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can’t really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that. Garry Marshall
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power. Katherine Dunn
Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up. Ann Cotton
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times. Mark Twain
I felt so out of place at the Miss India pageant. I had just come back from America, and I was told I needed to lose my American accent and learn the Queen’s English, so I had to enunciate my vowels and speak well and eloquently. Giving up a New York accent is pretty hard. Priyanka Chopra
I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, ‘Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.’ Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
I think giving up people is a difficult thing. Sissy Spacek
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. Drea De Matteo
For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking… giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move. Edward T. Hall
If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you’re weak or that you’re a failure because you can’t seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results. Amy Morin
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I’m not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else’s job. I just can’t think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer! Garth Brooks
Ageing doesn’t mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn’t mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers. Twiggy
What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what’s thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going. Patrick Swayze
As a writer, you can’t allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. Augusten Burroughs
I’m not giving up politics entirely – I’m just giving up leadership of a political party. Nigel Farage
Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times. Aimee Mullins
There will be times when you just can’t seem to land an acting job, and you feel like giving up. Don’t! The only way to realise that dream is to keep working hard for it. Sam Claflin
We are not giving up on the Coyotes in the Greater Phoenix Area… The team has got a number of options and is going to pursue them, so nobody should think that team is moving other than out of Glendale. Gary Bettman
Giving up cannot be an option. Greta Thunburg
The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough. Victoria Arlen
I would say that I’ve been lucky. Being blessed and not really ever giving up. Babyface
I could have gone professional, but I’m not giving up on my dream. Rau’Shee Warren
What’s worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up – and when I don’t believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me. Marc Jacobs
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. Thomas A. Edison
To play at the highest level requires tremendous effort, concentration and above all, never giving up. Joachim Low
My parents always enforce the idea of never giving up upon all of my siblings and me, and I think that’s something that will stick with me my whole life. Nathan Chen
Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I’m not giving up. Pete Earley
I’m a believer in finding a passion, hard work and definitely not giving up on your dream. La La Anthony
The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise – a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness. Lakshmi Mittal
I don’t believe in giving up. Though there are a lot of obstacles, heartaches and disappointments, you shouldn’t allow these things to break you. Mumtaz
I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I’ve realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn’t make you give up half of yourself. Kehlani
There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That’s what I’m all about. Sonita Alizadeh
Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up. Mark Zuckerberg
Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable. Joe Biden
Do I believe in giving up? No, I don’t. David Boreanaz
A fascinating reaction of the human brain when we fail to meet a goal is that it tells us to throw caution to the wind and make things even worse, which ultimately leads to us giving up. Fabrizio Moreira
Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one’s resolve to retaliate. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I’ve been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It’s very important to give back as a youth. It’s as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant. Queen Latifah
My mother was in the Army Reserve for six years. She taught me the importance of following rules, finishing what I start, never giving up, leadership skills, teamwork, staying positive, motivated and how to pack the military way when I’m traveling! Laurie Hernandez
You gain nothing from giving up. Robert Kubica
Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism. Lucille Roybal-Allard
I think the biggest sacrifice I had to make was giving up time and missing out on things. Not going to college and getting the college experience. Or missing important holidays. All my time was spent in the studio. Poo Bear
Taxpayers should not be coerced into giving up their privacy rights just to file their taxes. Melissa Bean
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. Ayumi Hamasaki
Life is a series of baby steps along the way and if you add up these tiny little steps you take toward your goal, whatever it is, whether it’s giving up something, a terrible addiction or trying to work your way through an illness. When you total up those baby steps you’d be amazed over the course of 10 years, the strides you’ve taken. Hoda Kotb
