Abandon Quotes

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
George Washington

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
Pope John Paul II

Easter, Song, Despair

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya

Work, Failure, Working

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
Harold Bloom

Work, Live, Wish

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.
Albert Camus

Love, Die, Impossible

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison

War, Death, Science

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Charles Stanley

Leadership, God, Design

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hope, Future, Enemy

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Self, Destiny, Sometimes

You must stick to your conviction, but be ready to abandon your assumptions.
Denis Waitley

Ready, Conviction, Stick

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone de Beauvoir

Sex, Woman, Words

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Nothing, Give, Through

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Money, Working, Rich

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
Arthur C. Clarke

True, Idea, Youth

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.
George W. Bush

Free, Order, System

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
Harriet Van Horne

Love, Cooking, Entered

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.
Nicolaus Copernicus

Work, Fear, View

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
Patti Smith

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Dante Alighieri

Hope, Here, Enter

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.
Michael Enzi

Marriage, Family

The people who abandon Jihad fall a victim to humility and degradation.
Abu Bakr

Humility, Fall, Victim

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
Aaliyah

Work, Sacrifice, Put

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.
George Weinberg

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
Marco Rubio

Government, Big, President

Believe it or not, lots of people change their majors and abandon their dreams just to avoid a couple of math classes in college.
Danica McKellar

Change, Dreams, College

I think each role takes a little from you and circles around you for the rest of your life. I don't think you ever abandon any of them.
Nicole Kidman

Life, Around, Rest

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.
Simon Mainwaring

Good, Democracy, Living

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.
David Byrne

Music, Down, Start

I've always been afraid of video games - not afraid that I wouldn't like them, but that I would like them too much, and that after mere seconds in front of any particularly bright and absorbing game, I would abandon all ambition, turn into a mouth-breathing zombie, and develop a wide, sofa-shaped rear end.
Susan Orlean

End, Game, After

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Rebecca West

Passion, Soul, Duty

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