Quitting Quotes
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I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset when you're young. If I was starting in comedy today and if it didn't work the first time, I'd probably quit. But I kept at it, kept at it.
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Never quit, you have to resist to the utmost. 'Til you drop, like a Samurai
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I was never that kid that wanted to be in politics. What happened was, I graduated with a degree in accounting. I came back home to the family business. I saw how hard it was to make a dollar, and how easy it was for the government to take it. And my mom said, "Quit complaining about it. Do something about it."
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Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
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I may play the fool at times, but I'm more than just a pretty blond boy with an ass that won't quit.
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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.
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As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting.
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The irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit job we don't like. You don't always have to quit, and quite frankly, option two is to try to help others solve the problem that you are struggling with.
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I make a lot of pots in a year's time and some of them are good and some of them are mediocre and some of them are bad. If they're really bad and I'd be ashamed of them, I throw them out, but if they're mediocre and they'll serve the purpose for which they're designed, that is, a mixing bowl or a soup bowl or a plate or whatever, I sell them. And this income from the sale of these pots permits me to go on and make other pots. It's even more important now that I've quit teaching, because I do not have a teacher's salary to fall back on.
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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.
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You will train always for a hundred terrific reasons. Quit and it will be for no good reason at all.
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Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.
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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.
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People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?
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Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women.
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We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.
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Sarah Palin, who with 17 months remaining in her single term as Alaska's governor quit the only serious office she has ever held, is obsessively discussed as a possible candidate in 2012. Why? She is not going to be president and will not be the Republican nominee unless the party wants to lose at least 44 states.
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When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.
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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.
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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.
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As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.
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Remember that although they may speak a different language, they are still the same kind of people as the folks you know at home, have the same mental processes, are just as kindly and just as friendly. Remember that, quit talking and start over again - in pantomime.
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I never quit. I never quit.
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As soon as you start to get tired, as soon as you start to get behind, as soon as your coach starts yelling at you, a lot of doors open up to quit; you got to find that one reason to stay in that battle, one reason to stay in the fire and fight.
