Quitting Quotes
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It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.
Chris Gardner
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I figure I wrote 37 songs in 20 years, and that's not exactly a full-time job. It wasn't that I was writing and writing and writing and quit.
Tom Lehrer
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We pursue exercise even though empirically we see no benefit from the energy we're spending and we're hurting. So empirically we should quit. The why is exactly the same thing. You persist even though there are some short-term stresses and even though there is some uncertainty.
Simon Sinek
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I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
Hedy Lamarr
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History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.
Steve Israel
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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
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When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit.
Simon Sinek
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I worked for this company that repossessed cars. Sure enough, the day after I quit, they repossessed my car, but that would probably be my strangest job to date. You have to work your way up to become a hardcore repo man.
Romany Malco
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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
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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
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He that dies this year is quit for the next.
William Shakespeare
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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
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Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.
Ethel Waters
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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
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The life upon which youth fancies itself entering is very different from the life which age refuses to acknowledge it is on the eve of quitting.
George Whyte-Melville
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Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.
Mike Ditka
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Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
Robert W. Service
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I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.
Carrie Nation
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I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.
Carter Burwell
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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
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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
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As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting.
Sue Johanson
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Every member must work or quit. No honorary members.
Charles Grandison Finney