Top 80 Quits Quotes

#1. 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

#2. People have two deaths: the first at the end of their lives, when they go away, and the second at the end of the memory of their lives, when all who remember them are gone. Then a person quits the world completely.

Raghu Karnad

#3. He begins to die, that quits his desires.

George Herbert

#4. Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.

Tommy Lee

#5. Labor never quits. We never give up the fight - no matter how tough the odds, no matter how long it takes.

George Meany

#6. I have never seen a client make a serious effort to confront his abusiveness unless somebody required him to do the work. The abuser who truly enters counseling voluntarily, with no one holding anything over his head, quits within a few sessions, unless he finds a counselor he can manipulate.

Lundy Bancroft

#7. Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true

Pete Maravich

#8. Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.

Forrest Griffin

#9. Some people become hypercritical when stressed.
Then again, he hadn't been stressed last week. She giggled, remembering how he'd instructed her on the proper way to fold hand towels. Talk about nitpicky. Perhaps this would be a good time to call it quits.

Cherise Sinclair

#10. When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

#11. We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Jane Austen

#12. Napoleon Hill also said, "A man is never whipped until he quits in his own mind." The

Christy Rutherford

#13. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

Hariom Sisodia

#14. Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.

Harry S. Truman

#15. No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.

Edgar Guest

#16. I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#17. I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#18. You can't defeat an individual that never quits.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#19. The only meaningful statistic in warfare is when the other side quits.

Karl Marlantes

#20. A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.

LaDene Mayville

#21. When somebody is ignoring, I ignore him too. When somebody is kicking or punching me I also do that, but with the differences that I do that on him. The rule is called Equal, but it's famous with "quits"!

Deyth Banger

#22. Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.

Andy Andrews

#23. The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

Jaime Escalante

#24. When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Angie Stone

#25. 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-Evremond

#26. Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.

Lucretius

#27. I guess I'm just afraid of whats going to happen. Because you can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

Adam Rapp

#28. Unless Chase Bank quits I prophesy blood violence

Allen Ginsberg

#29. A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

Richard M. Nixon

#30. I shed a tear when I meet somebody who always quits. Reliable people are so rare in this world.

Bauvard

#31. No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Napoleon Hill

#32. A black belt is a white belt who never quits!

Renzo Gracie

#33. I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even at that point. It's not really until you're locked that you can call it quits.

Noah Hawley

#34. A man isn't finnished when he is beaten he is finnished when he quits

Richard M. Nixon

#35. A [person] who Never quits is never defeated.

Fred Thompson

#36. The writing is clean. I really wouldn't have changed a word. Most of it is true, too, except that the hero quits drinking and the girl grows up. On the last page, the couple gets married, which is a nice way for a love story to end.

Melissa Bank

#37. When a rich man dies it is more complex than when a poor man dies. A rich man doesn't simply quit living. He quits being rich, too.

Elliott Chaze

#38. We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

Alexandre Dumas

#39. The lights disappear,
The elevator shudders,
Stalls,
Quits.
All in the same nanosecond.

All that exists is darkness so thick I can't think,
And Travis so close I can't breathe.

Elana Johnson

#40. About to quit." "Why?" He laughed. "Everybody quits - you'll quit. Nobody worth a shit can work here.

Hunter S. Thompson

#41. Has it ever happened that a murderer just before committing his crime gets a message stating, 'Life is about loving', and stops in his tracks, or a banker reads 'No greater sin than cheating', and quits his job? So,

Twinkle Khanna

#42. Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you're not having fun, then it's probably time to call it quits and try something else,

Richard Branson

#43. Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

Chuck Palahniuk

#44. We had scar-tissue
romance and ours was
a relationship of saying
goodbye - every time
we fought, every time
we fucked, and every time
we called it quits, before
picking up our knives
again

Phil Volatile

#45. But just as I was ready to call it quits, I got the necessary money from a third party, who had been instructed by Bing to help me out, without letting me know where the help came from.

Bob Crosby

#46. The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation.

Larry Niven

#47. Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits

David Jeremiah

#48. In at least one way we are atypical bloggers. That's because we just keep on posting. The typical blogger, like most people who go on diets and budgets, quits after a few months, weeks, or in many cases, days.

Stephen J. Dubner

#49. The mind gives up a lot sooner than the body, making it tough to know if you're really in trouble or if you're just making excuses, calling it quits before you've reached your full potential.

Kara Richardson Whitely

#50. I figure when you come to a crossroads, you have a choice: right turn, left turn, straight ahead. Or you can just pull over to the side of the road and call it quits. But if you've got a good stretch of road up ahead and someone fun to travel it with, why stay stuck in the galdern ditch?

Chris Grabenstein

#51. Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Alexander Pope

#52. You are not an athlete because of what you can do, but because of who you are: a team player, someone who never quits, who strives to be his personal best, and who believes in fair play.

Rosemary Rawlins

#53. It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#54. 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

#55. I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

Michael Jordan

#56. When pain can't bless, heaven quits us in despair.

Edward Young

#57. Those who refuse to grow, those who only finish school and call it quits regret through life.

Sunday Adelaja

#58. If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

#59. It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada ... The rest just quits!

Paterson Ewen

#60. If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.

Bob Woodward

#61. Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life. We're quits: stupid to draw up a list of mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#62. As an artist, if your work doesn't inflame at least part of the audience, then you might as well call it quits and sell insurance ... The world needs more boundary pushers, not more boundary creators.

Alys Arden

#63. If you want to call it quits, just tell me. Man up and say it to my face. Don't just skulk around.

J.M. Richards

#64. When wise man quits learning,
he will be more senile onwards.

Toba Beta

#65. Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

Horace

#66. The desire for carnal possession quickly cools, whereas the desire to own land never quits the heart of man.

Gabriel Chevallier

#67. The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our guardian angel quits his charge of us.

Owen Feltham

#68. He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.

George Herbert

#69. I'm no werewolf, and I'm tired of hearing the word. I'm a Changeling, okay? And either you trust me or we call it quits right here. It was Travis's turn to fold his arms, as if he was daring her to convince him.

Dani Harper

#70. Hate quits when it is tired; love quits when it has won.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#71. There is such malice, treachery, and dissimulation, even among professed friends and intimate companions, as cannot fail to strike a virtuous mind with horror; and when Vice quits the stage for a moment, her place is immediately occupied by Folly...

Tobias Smollett

#72. He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.

John Lancaster Spalding

#73. It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.

Farrah Fawcett

#74. I miss my 'Facts of Life' family. But I had been preparing myself to leave the show for some time before we called it quits.

Kim Fields

#75. Writing turns everybody into wussies. Everybody quits.

Paul T. Scheuring

#76. The love boat has crashed against the everyday
You and I, we are quits
And there is no use listing mutual hurts, sorrows, and pains.

Vladimir Mayakovsky

#77. There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

Jean Baudrillard

#78. A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

Napoleon Hill

#79. I enjoy hating musicians far more than I enjoy appreciating them. As far as I'm concerned, when someone becomes a rock star, he quits being a person.

Chuck Klosterman

#80. My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.

Ndamukong Suh

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