quotes about giving up

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~William James Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. ~William James



There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare. ~Finley Peter Dunne



Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. ~Robert Peel



Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. ~Romans 12:21



If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. ~Doug Larson



What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult. ~Sigmund Freud



Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting. ~Peter Finley Dunne, Mr. Dooley's Opinions, 1900



We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: "The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.



I'm an incorrigible punster. Do not incorrige me. ~Author Unknown (Thanks, Bob)



And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? ~Rainer Maria Rilke



Firefighters - your worst nightmare is just another day at the office. ~Author Unknown



You can't call it a sport. You don't run, jump, you don't shoot, you don't pass. All you have to do is buy some clothes that don't match. ~Steve Sax



I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. ~Winston Churchill



I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1909



Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. ~George Eliot



If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves. ~Elbert Hubbard



The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. ~Robert Graves



The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. ~Chief Luther Standing Bear