Quitting Quotes

• When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Hate
  • Actors
  • Firsts

• Every time I act on a fear, I feel disappointed in myself. I have a lot of fear. If I can quit all fear in my life and all guilt, then I tend to be much, much more living up to my standards. I've never seen a person fail if they didn't fear failure.

  

  Sebastian Thrun
  • Feels
  • Failing
  • Disappointed

• Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Military
  • Easy
  • Draws

• Motivation remains key to the marathon: the motivation to begin; the motivation to continue; the motivation never to quit.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Running
  • motivation
  • Marathon

• Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining

  

  Michael Arrington
  • Hard
  • Cry
  • Whining

• He that dies this year is quit for the next.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Death
  • Years
  • Next

• A man who knows how to mix pleasures with business is never entirely possessed by them; he either quits or resumes them at his will; and in the use he makes of them he rather finds a relaxation than a dangerous charm that might corrupt him.

  

  Charles de Saint-Évremond
  • Pleasure
  • Dangerous
  • Might

• Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.

  

  Katie Uhlaender
  • Trying
  • Options
  • Plates

• I’ve lost someone, too,” he reminded her. “It’s not the same!” She squeezed the bridge of her nose, trying to stifle her tears. “I was so mean to him. I quit the piano! I blamed him for everything, and I didn’t say more than a few words to him for three years! Three years! And I can’t get those years back. But maybe if I hadn’t been so angry, he might not have gotten sick. Maybe I caused that extra… stress that did all this. Maybe it was me!

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Trying
  • Mean
  • Angry

• It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.

  

  Chris Gardner
  • Failure
  • Failing
  • Quitting

• At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit.

  

  Caleb Followill
  • Writing
  • Quitting

• The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

  

  Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine
  • Office
  • Performing
  • Cameras

• I listened for the voice I knew so well, the one I always heard at the beginning. Good girl, Macy! You're doing great! You know the first steps are the hardest part! They were. Sometimes I felt so out of sync, it was all could do not to quit after a few strides. But I kept on, as I did now. I had to, to get to the next part, this part, where I finally caught up with Wes, my shadow aligning itself with his, an dhe turned to look at me, pushing his hair our of his eyes.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Girl
  • Sometimes
  • Hair

• The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Waiting

• Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice?

  

  George Washington
  • Destiny
  • Ambition
  • Prosperity

• For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. When I finally started working out to be healthier, I saw a transformation. I've even quit weighing myself so I don't obsess over the numbers.

  

  Judy Reyes
  • Wanted
  • Results
  • Transformation

• I have never made statements like, 'I'm quitting TV' or 'I'm quitting Bollywood.' I have always wanted to strike a balance between the two.

  

  Mona Singh
  • Always
  • Wanted
  • Between

• If you quit being cunty, the whole world will stop being against you.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • World
  • Quitting

• Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

  

  Evan Harris
  • Art
  • May
  • Virtue

• I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

  

  George Ella Lyon
  • People
  • Knows
  • Quitting

• Our band is different in the sense that we all are involved with a lot of different projects. It's hard to say when we'll record again, but we're not calling it quits right away.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Different
  • Band
  • Calling

• Every member must work or quit. No honorary members.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Members
  • Quitting
  • Honorary

• I didn't go and quit anything. I remained who I am, so I don't know if anybody wants to criticize. I'm still me.

  

  Reginald Arvizu
  • Knows
  • Stills
  • Criticize

• Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

  

  Richard M. Nixon
  • Failure
  • President
  • Defeated

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