Top 100 Quitting's Quotes
#1. Quitting's not hard. Deciding to quit is hard. Once you make that mental leap, the rest is easy."
"Really? Was that how you quit me?
Gayle Forman
#2. It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
Seth Godin
#3. Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.
John Tesh
#4. Everyone should at least try to do the thing he wants to do. Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now ... it's like quitting before you start.
Jacqueline Susann
#5. When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.
Sarah Dessen
#6. You don't raise $15 million by accident. I'm asking him to come forward and quit claiming he doesn't know what's going on in his own campaign.
Steve Rauschenberger
#7. It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments
Franz Beckenbauer
#8. I'm not leaving you. We still have a chance."
"How?"
Kayson's voice echoes his hopelessness. He's already given up.
"Hey, as long as we are still breathing, we still have a chance. If you quit, then you're quitting on me too.
Brandy Nacole
#9. If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.
Khaled Hosseini
#10. Remember that quitting is always an option, and it's the only one that guarantees a predictable result. Stay in the fight and everything is at risk. Quit and you know what will happen NOTHING!
Jim Bouchard
#11. And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit.
William Faulkner
#12. Fighting is like life. You can do everything to a tee. You can show up and fail. That's no reason to quit.
Frank Mir
#13. A common greeting was 'Well, Gillette, how's the razor?' If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.
King C. Gillette
#14. I've been trying to quit smoking weed and it's really hard quitting pot. It was actually easier to become a vegetarian because your friends never show up at your house with a sack of beef.
Brian Posehn
#15. So keep your chin up, boy, forget the pain. I know you'll make it, if you try again. There's no use in quitting, when the world is waiting for you.
Roger Hodgson
#16. So many amazing opportunities arise when a chapter of our life ends. When we resign from a job that we weren't happy in, or even get fired, it's actually a blessing because a better experience is waiting to happen. It's all about perspective.
Miya Yamanouchi
#17. Whatever your quitting point, I challenge you to test God's truth and faithfulness by saying, God, I'm going to proceed, trusting you to empower me to crash through this quitting point and come out in one piece on the other side.
Bill Hybels
#18. I quit the Knicks so I know what quitting is, I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision and I quit.
Jeff Van Gundy
#20. It becomes part of a person's second nature; he belongs to the church, like he belongs to his family, and he does not quit his family because someone in it turns out to be a rascal.
Sterling M. McMurrin
#21. Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.
Billy Sunday
#22. It's impossible for me to lose because I won't quit!
Bob Proctor
#23. It can get really messy inside my head, and it's usually just because everybody can get really self-centered at some point. And so what usually keeps me from quitting is that my reasons for quitting are just lame. I wouldn't want anybody else to talk to myself the way that I talk to myself.
Brie Larson
#24. Just focus on being the best possible version of yourself and quit worrying about your thighs, there's nothing wrong with them.
Jennie Runk
#25. Microserfs (1995) p28 'He's thinking of quitting [Microsoft] to be a pixelation broker, going around to museums to digitize their paintings
Douglas Coupland
#26. It's not being homeless that matters. It's about who you are. Keep striving and you become somebody. Quit and you also become somebody.. but not the same person.
Robert Kiyosaki
#27. That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually ... I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one.
Bill Hicks
#28. People automatically associate quitting with failure, but sometimes that's exactly what you should do. If you already spent too much time on something that wasn't worth it, walk away. You can't get that time back. The worst thing you can do now is waste even more time.
Jason Fried
#29. Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit.
Harold Town
#30. A top aide to Donald Trump says he quit the campaign this weekend because of Trump's public feuds, but Trump said he was fired. When asked what he was fired for, Trump said, 'Quitting!'
Jimmy Fallon
#31. There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit ... retire!
Groucho Marx
#32. There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses, right?
Alan Moore
#33. Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'
John Muckler
#34. Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There's no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.
Carly Patterson
#35. I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage.
Glennon Melton
#36. All I am saying is that sometimes you're doing quite a lot by not doing anything. You're not quitting. You just keep going. That's the pioneer spirit.
Rinker Buck
#37. Toughness isn't about you and what you want, it's about not quitting because others need you.
Marc MacYoung
#38. What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.
Marc Jacobs
#39. Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit -
It's the keeping your chin up that's hard.
Robert W. Service
#40. It's not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.
Richard Bach
#41. If there's one thing that Trump does, he never quits.
Bob Woodward
#42. It's not so hard to become the best painter in Canada ... The rest just quits!
Paterson Ewen
#43. For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.
Magic Johnson
#44. If you're planning on quitting, first make sure it's not for one of these reasons:
Fear
Discomfort
Anger
Self-pity
Someone's negative opinions
Past failures
Unrealistic expectations
Charles F. Glassman
#45. We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment.
Barack Obama
#46. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando
#47. It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.
Fran Tarkenton
#48. If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#49. If a person did all the work of a slave but had the option of quitting at any time without being physically restrained or punished, we would not call him a slave - and this violence was often a regular part of a slave's life.
Steven Pinker
#50. Respect Dhoni's decision to quit. We should respect his incredible contribution to Indian cricket. Can't measure in words. Probably his quitting came one Test early.
Sunil Gavaskar
#51. I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.
Morgan Freeman
#53. I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.
Colonel Sanders
#55. I quit being a VS model to be a Proverbs 31 wife.
Kylie Bisutti
#56. I guess it was the first time I really thought about leaving. I don't just mean Iron Maiden, I mean quitting music altogether. I just thought, 'Nothing is worth feeling like this for.' I began to feel like I was a piece of machinery, like I was part of the lighting rig.
Bruce Dickinson
#57. If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.
Milton Berle
#58. The only reason I have the career I have is that I didn't quit.
Mariska Hargitay
#59. We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.
Hank Williams Jr.
#60. I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
Barbara Cook
#62. The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.
Ben Fountain
#64. This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.
Mikey Way
#65. To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
John Ashcroft
#67. Men before you have quit smoking - you can too!
Edward Young
#68. Your expression dog paddles the entire
meeting but your daydream
ricochets between the prospect of quitting
and painting your room.
Lori Lamothe
#69. In reality, quitting Facebook is much more problematic than the company's executives suggest, if only because users cannot extract all the intangible social capital they have generated on the site and export it elsewhere.
Evgeny Morozov
#70. We're not quitting until I'm satisfied you know what you're doing," he said in a low voice.
"Until we're both satisfied," she corrected.
Killing. Him.
Roxanne Snopek
#71. The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)
Michael Ben Zehabe
#72. Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.
Benjamin Franklin King Jr.
#73. Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.
Syed Ather
#74. After quitting my job with Sea Rock, I became a Mukta Arts flunky.
Ronit Roy
#75. Persistence is victory. Just . . . keep . . . going. It doesn't matter if things aren't going the way you thought they would or if you're facing a disappointment. The only defeat is in quitting. If you keep going, you're winning.
Mara Schiavocampo
#76. Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.
Mike Ditka
#77. The only rule I have is to quit while it's still hot. Never write yourself out. Always quit when it's going good. Then it's easier to take it up again. If you exhaust yourself, then you'll get into a dead spell and you'll have trouble with it.
William Faulkner
#78. A woman's body doesn't quit just because her heart breaks.
Margaret Maron
#79. I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able.
Maxfield Parrish
#80. It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.
Will Rogers
#81. Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because it's scary.
Tyler Farr
#82. That's life (that's life), I tell you I can't deny it
I thought of quitting, baby, but my heart just ain't gonna buy it
And if I didn't think it was worth one single try
I'd jump right on a big bird and then I'd fly
Frank Sinatra
#83. It's impossible to get to the end if you quit in the middle.
Christine Caine
#84. People who smoke cigarettes, they say "You don't know how hard it is to quit smoking." Yes I do. It's as hard as it is to start flossing.
Mitch Hedberg
#86. There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
Cormac McCarthy
#87. Whenever the press quits abusing me, I know I'm in the wrong pew.
Harry S. Truman
#88. No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit.
Joyce Meyer
#89. Oprah's quitting in 2011. Now we know why the Mayans ended their calendar in 2012
Craig Ferguson
#90. The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit
Napoleon Bonaparte
#91. You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.
Meg Cabot
#92. When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.
Graham Parker
#93. I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting ... " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing
David Hasselhoff
#94. The urge to quit is strongest just before breakthroughs occur. Those are the times when it's most important to stay focused and committed. You will encounter the urge to quit many times. Get over it. Quitting is not an option; always be prepared to give it one more day.
Matthew Barnett
#95. I'm glad you're quitting the bar."
"You are?"
"Yeah. I've never liked you working there, and I miss you at the weekend."
"Why didn't you say anything?"
"Because you seemed happy. It's sort of my life mission to make sure you stay that way," he teased.
Samantha Young
#96. It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.
Acharya Mahapragya
#97. There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.
Penelope Trunk
#98. It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well.
Laurent Jalabert
#100. Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.
David Goggins
