Giving Up Quotes — Page 28

Literary Critic and Essayist

“A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.”

Country Hands Giving Up

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David Adam

Author

“Soils could also be giving up their carbon stores: evidence emerged in 2005 that a vast expanse of western Siberia was undergoing an unprecedented thaw. The region, the largest frozen peat bog in the world, had begun to melt for the first time since it formed 11,000 years ago. Scientists believe the bog could begin to release billions of tonnes of methane locked up in the soils, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The World Meteorological Organisation recently reported the largest annual rise of methane levels in the atmosphere for a decade.”

Believe Years Giving Up

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C. S. Lewis

Writer, Scholar

“Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.”

Real Self

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Benjamin Franklin

Inventor, Statesman, Author

“Those who give up their liberty for more security neither deserve liberty nor security.”

Giving Up Liberty

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Dale Carnegie

Author, Speaker

“Do the very best you can.”

Success Giving Up Fear

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Dolly Parton

Singer, Songwriter, Actress

“You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.”

Long Attitude Giving Up

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Douglas Adams

Writer, Humorist

“Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the apple. Surprise surprise, they eat it and he leaps out from behind a bush shouting "Gotcha". It wouldn't have made any difference if they hadn't eaten it.' 'Why not?' 'Because if you're dealing with somebody who has the sort of mentality which likes leaving hats on the pavement with bricks under them you know perfectly well they won't give up. They'll get you in the end.”

Giving Up Garden Apples

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Confucius

Philosopher

“I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above it. One who really hates wickedness will practice goodness in such a way that wickedness will have no chance to get at him. Is there anyone who has devoted his whole strength to doing good for even as long as a single day? I have not seen anyone give up such an attempt because he had not the strength to go on. Perhaps there is such a case, but I have never seen it.”

Hate Practice Giving Up

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Confucius

Philosopher