Top 197 Abandoning Quotes & Sayings

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.

The conspiracy theory of society... comes from abandoning god and then asking: "Who is in his place"

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

The hijrah to Allah includes abandoning what He hates and doing what He loves and accepts.

If there's any advice I have to give, I would say it's that. If you're looking for a way to get closer to your kids, there ain't no better way than to grab 'em and read. And if you put them in front of a computer or a TV, you are abandoning them. You are abandoning them because they are sitting on a couch or a floor and they may be hugging a dog, but they ain't hugging you.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

Those few members who desert the cause are abandoning an oasis to search for water in the desert.

We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

Abandoning a task that is futile and pointless is not giving up.

One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.

If we are to remain mission focused, as we must be if we are to be relevant in an uncertain age, the abandoning those things that do not further the mission is a leadership imperative.

We cannot have four more years apologizing to our enemies and abandoning our friends.

True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

"I tell you," he [Milosevic] continued, "Izetbegovic has earned Sarajevo by not abandoning it. He's one tough guy. It's his". These words were probably the most astonishing and unexpected of the conference.

Change your practices without abandoning your core values.

Choosing one path means abandoning others - if you try to follow every possible path you will end up following none.

I looked through a lens and ended up abandoning everything else.

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others.

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

Dance is my passion and love, and I am not abandoning it for anything.

One can't allow oneself to be bullied into abandoning one's dream.

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.

Forty percent of Americans describe themselves as conservative, 36% independents, and 20% liberal. And these independents are abandoning the Democrat Party in droves. And a key point, they're abandoning the Democrat Party without the Republican Party giving them any reason to go to them. They're just abandoning the Democrats because they don't like what they see.

In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.

You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you are too into comfort. 'Comfy'-that's one of the worst words!

Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream

Only when legislators judge that the risk of continuing to support Trump outweighs the risk of abandoning him will they begin to jump ship.

I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

If you had a Starbucks that never sold coffee, you wouldn't keep the site open. It's not that we're abandoning sites, but we're saying, 'Let's go where there's HIV, focus our resources there.'

Early on, my abandoning father had set the pattern of my love life on the loom of my subconscious.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.

Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write entirely.

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

With his mind free from the inflow of thoughts and from restlessness, by abandoning both good and evil, an alert man knows no fear.

In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

To me consensus seems to be - the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects.

Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.

If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

You're abandoning a lot of ideas when you're too into comfort.

I don't feel like so many other celebrities' kids, who hate their parents for abandoning them.

If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to.

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

I'm staying," Henry said, annoyed. "Why?" "Because, if I leave, it would be like abandoning two mentally challenged people in a nuclear waste dump.

The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'

[A-listers] ended up abandoning Hillary [Clinton] more than they abandoned [Donald] Trump.

...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as hopeless - abandoning the possibility of really expressing yourself to the nations of the world. Abandoning the idea of being a prophet with honor and dignity, and abandoning the glory of poetry and just settling down in the muck of your own mindYou really have to make a resolution to write for yourself, in the sense of not writing to impress yourself, but just writing what your self is saying.

Not enough gets said about the importance of abandoning crap.

Abolishing ICE means abandoning our borders and leaving them open to anyone. That's just irresponsible and certainly not in the best interest of the American people and their security.

I stay away from the studio too long, I feel like I'm abandoning myself.

What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.