There’s no question about life not being as smooth-sailing as we would like it to be; there are plenty of times where we will find ourselves questioning everything we are doing and thinking about giving up.
But that’s just the reality; we can either push ourselves to move forward or take a step back and see if what we are doing is worth it or not.
Many people would think that giving up is not an option, but sometimes, letting go is what’s best for you.
If you are in a sticky situation in your life right now, here are some “maybe it’s time to give up” quotes that’ll hopefully help you see clearly what you need to do.
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Maybe It’s Time To Give Up Quotes
1. “Don’t ever give up. Don’t ever give in. Don’t ever stop trying. Don’t ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off. But never, ever, ever give up.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
2. “There is a time for departure, even when there’s no certain place to go.” — Tennessee Williams
3. “Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went mad now?” — Douglas Adams
4. “Even if our life circumstances take a while to reflect our inner decisions, once decisions are made, everything in our life will move in the direction of aligning with that.” — Donna Goddard
5. “It’s okay to give up; however, once you do, remind yourself to get back up.” — Shaa Zainol
6. “It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.” — Paulo Coelho
7. “Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.” — Cameron Conaway
8. “A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back — you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future.” — Jodi Picoult
9. “How long should you try? Until.” — Jim Rohn
10. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” — Herman Hesse
11. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” — Guy Finley
12. “Psychologically, the worst feeling ever is not knowing whether to wait or give up.” — Nitya Prakash
13. “When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn’t really feel like a sacrifice.” — Kiera Cass
14. “I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.” — John Green
15. “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” — Mark Twain
16. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coehlo
17. “There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.” — Frank Herbert
18. “I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.” — Joanne Harris
19. “Giving up is not an option. You have to keep fighting for what you want, even if it seems impossible”
20. “A man is like a novel: until the very last page, you don’t know how it will end. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be worth reading.” — Yevgeny Zamyatin
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21. “This time, for the first time, I saw the possibilities in giving up. I even found hope in it.” — Jay Asher
22. “Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” — Ann Landers
23. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energy moving forward together towards an answer.” — Denis Waitley
24. “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve or would’ve happened…, or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.” — Tupac Shakur
25. “Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living…if you want to get anything significant accomplished.” — Steve Jobs
26. “There’s a trick to the ‘graceful exit.’ It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up rather than out.” — Ellen Goodman
27. “Sometimes a door appears in front of you; You keep trying to open it and get in! However, if you give up the door, the road before you suddenly opens!” — Mehmet Murat ildan
28. “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” ― Jeffrey McDaniel
29. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” — C. Joybell C.
30. “The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell.” — Aaron B. Powell
31. “Sometimes the sparrow felt tired, sometimes he even felt like giving up, but that was when he spoke the happiest.” — Michael James Payne
32. “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again; this time more intelligently.” — Henry Ford
33. “Letting go helps us to to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.” — Melody Beattie
34. “Sometimes it’s better to end something and try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible.” — Karen Salmansohn
35. “Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.” — Mark Cuban
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36. “Never give up, and never give in. The truth always finds a way to be told.” — Shannon L. Alder
37. “If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.” ― Deb Caletti
38. “We all need someone to be there for us when things get tough. But sometimes, we need to be there for ourselves. If a relationship is no longer working, it might be time to walk away.”
39. “Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” ― Mandy Hale
40. “There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.” — Kate DiCamillo
41. “Letting go is hard but being free is beautiful.” — Wilder Poetry
42. “One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” — B. Nicole
43. “I miss your smile… but I miss mine more.” ― Laurel House
44. “She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn’t always have to get it right. It’s okay to look back, even as you move forward.” — Jennifer E. Smith
45. “It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you’ll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.” ― Greg Behrendt
46. “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” — Steve Maraboli
47. “No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.” ― Alexandra Elle
48. “You know you can’t give me what I need. And even though you mean so much to me, I can’t wait through everything.” — A Day to Remember, “If It Means A Lot To You”
49. “To truly love is to have the courage to walk away and let the other person who wishes to be free go no matter how much it hurts.” ― Taylor Swift
50. “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” — Nicholas Sparks
51. “You think you can change a guy, that he’ll be different with you, that you’ll finally be the one to tame him… and before you know it, you’re alone in your underwear at nine o’clock on a Saturday night, crying to Adele songs, eating ice cream straight from the gallon, and wondering what the hell is the matter with you that you fell for such a goddamned man-child after he explicitly warned you not to.” — Julie Johnson
52. “We still talk like every day. But we don’t talk in the same way that we used to, I’ll move on and forget you. We could never see eye to eye.” — Neck Deep, “A Part of Me”
53. “I loved him, every inch of his being, but I realized one day; if loving him meant losing me, then loving him was not enough anymore.” ― Nikki Rowe
54. “You are allowed to let go of all those that do not set you free anymore.” — Dhiman
55. “There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you have had enough.” — Joanne Reed
56. “When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.” — Shannon Alder
57. “It’s not worth losing your soul to win a guy.” — Daniel Nayeri
58. “When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.” ― Kim Sowol
59. “All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.” — Havelock Ellis
60. “To those who are never there, let them go.” — Nitya Prakash
61. “I will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I deserve better than that; I am better than that… goodbye.” ― Steve Maraboli
62. “If you’re looking for a happy ending and can’t seem to find one, may be it’s time you start looking for a new beginning instead.” — Ritu Ghatourey
63. “You really don’t have to burn any bridges to let go… You don’t have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and move on.” — Marta Mrotek
64. “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” — Deborah Reber
65. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” — Shannon L. Alder
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66. “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up, but you don’t give up.” — Chuck Yeager
67. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
68. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
69. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” — Earl Nightingale
70. “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” — Thich Nhat Hanh
71. “If you can’t do anything about it, then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.” — Tony Gaskins
72. “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
73. “In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain the old pain.” — Mary Manin Morrissey
74. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.” — Martin Luther King Jr
75. “In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” — Deepak Chopra
76. “Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.” ― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Sword
77. “Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” — Dave Mustaine
78. Sometimes it is necessary to destroy all attachments in order to win over yourself.” — Elif Shafak
79. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” — Dale Carnegie
80. “The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” — Steve Maraboli
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81. “It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” — Albert Einstein
82. “If you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small.” — Joel Osteen
83. “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” — Winston Churchill
84. “Never, ever, ever give up! Chances are if you feel like giving up, you’re right on the edge of your breakthrough.” — Mandy Hale
85. “We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” — Joseph Campbell
86. “The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.” — Alyson Noel
87. “Some people are meant to stay put, and some people are meant to go. But running is different than going. When you’re running, you spend the whole time looking over your shoulder. To go forward, you gotta look forward.” — Gretchen Anthony
88. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” — Joel Osteen
89. “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” — Elbert Hubbard
90. “I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.” — Gayle Forman
91. “The price of anything is the amount of time you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
92. “Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It’s the one that makes the sweetest sound.” — Simon Sinek
93. “If you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.” — Steve Jobs
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94. “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” — Vince Lombardi
95. “Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” — Conrad Hilton
96. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” — James A. Michener
97. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” — Thomas Edison
98. “When you give up on life, never give up on yourself because there is so much for you to keep on giving!” — Oprah Winfrey
99. “You should never give up your inner self.” — Clint Eastwood
100. “More often than not, at the end of the day, you realize that your initial idea was wrong, and you have to try something else. These are the moments of frustration and despair. You feel that you have wasted an enormous amount of time, with nothing to show for it. This is hard to stomach. But you can never give up. You go back to the drawing board, you analyze more data, you learn from your previous mistakes, you try to come up with a better idea.” — Edward Frenkel
101. “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” — Mandy Hale
102. “You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond.” — Debbie Reynolds
103. “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” — Tim Notke
104. “You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” — Roy T. Bennett
What’s Your Favorite “Maybe It’s Time To Give Up” Quote?
Contrary to popular notions, giving up isn’t a sign of weakness—there are plenty of times in life wherein it is viewed as a strength.
Not many people don’t have the strength to let go and find a path that would work better for them. Not many people realize that not giving up even when things are already getting toxic is just sapping the life out of them.
Which one of these “maybe it’s time to give up” quotes resonated with you best?
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