P. D. James Quotes

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Once you give up, you know you're done.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

You should despair and run away.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

Discouragement, if pursued, is the exercise of an option: to turn from creative to noncreative mental activity, to turn from what is present to what is over, to turn from that which builds to that which destroys.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

To go back means defeat.

It's tough to say this, but sometimes it's better if you are losing because then you don't expect anything.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

It is always disappointing to obviously concede.

No one can really relate to somebody who has given up entirely.

I'm never going to run this again.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.

I don't want ever to be champion again.

I think any time someone's dreams are crushed, there's the people who can fight to still try and fulfill those dreams and then there's the people who just give up.

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.