Gave Up Quotes
218 quotes by 202 authors
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in…
— Russell Baker
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I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.
— Sara Blakely
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I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.
— Sandra Bullock
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I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
— Johnny Carson
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to…
— Eric Clapton
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I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.
— Bob Wickman
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Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.
— Tris Speaker
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Tempus never left a problem for another to solve. Tempus never let the pain or difficulty of an undertaking persuade him not to pursue a…
— Janet Morris
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The reason I don't play golf is because I was a caddie when I was 13. Women never gave up a golf ball that was…
— Art Buchwald
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We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot. No…
— Shaquille O'Neal
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I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.
— Harry S. Truman
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American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated…
— Dave Barry
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I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The…
— Graham Coxon
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In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol and it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
— George Best
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Not to open the hunting season on the pretext that there is no game would be as if one gave up celebrating Christmas because there…
— Maurice Grimaud
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I think competing is more important than winning. There have been a lot of times when I've teed it up and I didn't win but…
— Juli Inkster
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The McCarthy period came along...and many of the other scientists who had been working on these same lines gave up. Probably saying "Why should I…
— Linus Pauling
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The only thing that I have done that is not mitigated by luck, diminished by good fortune, is that I persisted, and other people gave…
— Harrison Ford
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I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then,…
— John Lennon
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I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went…
— Willie Nelson
Who Wrote These Gave Up Quotes
202 authors contributed a total of 218 Gave Up Quotes, led by these top contributors: