Top 100 Quotes About Quitting
#1. quitting. But now, only ten days out, I was done. I wanted
Cheryl Strayed
#2. Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.
Andy Hertzfeld
#4. 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
#5. Don't ever, ever quit. Recognize that stopping now, regrouping to try a new approach isn't quitting. If you quit you'll regret it forever
Rudy Ruettiger
#6. Quitting Facebook would be like partially erasing myself. Quitting Twitter would constitute further erasure. Pretty soon, I'd be invisible. I was never on Instagram or Tumblr, which I guess means I never completely existed in the first place.
Meghan Daum
#7. Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.
Alex Chilton
#8. Quitting is not an option. I will not let anyone on this team quit.
Herman Edwards
#9. 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
#10. It took me years to realize that I could do all kinds of drastic acts like quitting jobs, relationships, towns (or all of the above), but what showed up at the next job, relationship, & town was still ME.
Summer Pierre
#11. 18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".
Joe Satriani
#12. 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
#13. Quitting is for sissies, pansies, and people who never get published.
A. Campbell
#14. For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.
Meat Loaf
#15. 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
#16. We learn to endure to the end by learning to finish our current responsibilities, and we simply continue doing it all of our lives. We cannot expect to learn endurance in our later years if we have developed the habit of quitting when things get difficult now.
Robert D. Hales
#18. I've sort of become the poster boy for quitting your job and following your dreams.
John Tesh
#19. I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.
Art Linkletter
#20. When you feel like quitting at a particular goal, ignite your determination , rekindle your focus and add more courage ; for quitters are never winners .
Osunsakin Adewale
#22. 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
#23. Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.
John Grisham
#24. Think about all the time, brainpower, and social or political capital you continued to spend on some commitment only because you didn't like the idea of quitting.
Steven D. Levitt
#25. 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
#26. Sarah Palin has decided not to run for President and go straight to the quitting part.
Andy Borowitz
#27. If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. Chinese Proverb
Scott Lynch
#28. Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.
Lynn Johnston
#30. but he just keeps showing up in my head, forcing me to work harder whenever I feel like quitting, forcing me to be better.
Randy Pausch
#31. I guess if everything went tits up, having no work whatsoever, obviously you have to do something else. At the moment I don't see myself quitting, but I'm open minded about it.
Max Irons
#32. In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.
John Bytheway
#33. I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.
Dolly Parton
#34. It is never that I never failed and did not think of quitting, I tried quitting and failed in that too!!
Himmilicious
#35. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando
#36. At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light of Earth.
Victor Hugo
#37. There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today
Lord Chesterfield
#38. Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.
Clifton Adams
#39. Quitting is an essential life tool, but nobody wants to be called a "quitter." Society values persistence and celebrates heroes who reach their goals against all odds. Sometimes fear of failure keeps you going even when your goal is unrealistic.
Anonymous
#40. It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.
Christy Turlington
#41. I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.
Christine Lahti
#42. A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
Doris Lessing
#43. 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
#44. Quitting a job doesn't jump-start a dream because dreams take planning, purpose, and progress to succeed. That stuff has to happen before you quit your day job.
Jon Acuff
#45. 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
#46. Emily gazed long on the splendours of the world she was quitting, of which the whole magnificence seemed thus given to her sight only to increase her regret on leaving it; for her, Valancourt alone was in that world; to him alone her heart turned, and for him alone fell her bitter tears.
Ann Radcliffe
#47. Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations
Seth Godin
#48. If I had to choose Reaganomics or 13 staffers quitting, I think for the average working American, Reaganomics was a much better deal.
Newt Gingrich
#50. If you do whatever it takes to accomplish your goals to live the life you desire, It will be worth it. I promise! But if you find some excuse to justify quitting your journey, you will regret it. This is also a promise! -gbb
Glenn Brandon Burke
#51. If you quit every time things don't go your way, then you'll be quitting all through your life.
Evander Holyfield
#52. Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.
Jim Carrey
#53. Quitting smoking is rather a marathon than a sprint. It is not a one-time attempt, but a longer effort
Aristotle.
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. I search for love frantically... and quitting at the last moment by making excuse for myself that I've tried
Acha Salim
#57. I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting.
Evan Dando
#59. 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
#60. Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina
#61. If quitting smoking seems hard right now, it is exactly what you should start doing
Eleanor Roosevelt
#62. Before I let myself question my loyalty to my people, I'm quitting music. I didn't do this to be by myself.
Fetty Wap
#63. The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
Baron De Montesquieu
#64. I want to quit, I want to quit, I want to quit. And when I'm done quitting, I'd like to quit again.
Andie Mitchell
#65. When everything seems worse, impossible to achieve, thinking about giving up, quitting? Remember why started first? Trust yourself, tap yourself and say if you cannot make it, no one is going to. Look back, the whole team believes in you, go for it and be a CHAMPION.
Vivek Thangaswamy
#66. If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.
Howard Staunton
#68. As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting.
Sue Johanson
#69. 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
#70. The rewards of tomorrow are safely hidden in the belief of never quitting and not giving up on yourself today
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#71. The first day without you is painful in a way that is almost exquisite. I imagine quitting smokers must feel like this, or crash-dieters - the early determination, where the loss of what you have given up is replaced with the adrenaline of denial.
Louise Doughty
#72. There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses, right?
Alan Moore
#73. That down feeling, quitting, was far worse than suffering it out to the end, because that decision to quit haunts you and bleeds over into your outlook on everything else, just as not quitting buoys you for all else.
Diana Nyad
#74. The perfect day for quitting is not real. It will never come, so might as well start today
Samuel Johnson
#75. Wayne came over to the bench one day after seeing (Zdeno) Chara, and said 'That's why I'm quitting.'
John Muckler
#77. 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
#78. In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.
Magic Johnson
#79. Blake Landon was my drug, my obsession-a habit I had no intentions of ever quitting.
Meredith Wild
#80. When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
Danger Mouse
#81. In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.
Albert Einstein
#82. At a very young age, I wrote down the goals that I had so I could always see what I wanted to accomplish. And I would look at that goal sheet and think "I still want to do this."So I'd decide "I'm not quitting."
Michael Phelps
#83. The only thing that will guarantee your failure is quitting. Those who win in this life are not those who never fail. Winners are those who never quit.
Noel Jones
#84. Even when quitting seems like the best option, theres always a reason to keep going.
Hope Solo
#85. It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting-it was a dirty word ...
Deb Caletti
#86. I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.
Saffron Burrows
#88. If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.
Ernie Pyle
#89. If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.
Bill Rancic
#90. Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit
Abraham Maslow
#91. I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
Sally Kirkland
#92. You have to learn to overcome those feelings when somebody is negative about a production you love or if that production doesn't do well commercially. After 'Gone With the Wind', I felt older. I even thought about quitting the business.
Jill Paice
#93. Toughness isn't about you and what you want, it's about not quitting because others need you.
Marc MacYoung
#94. While determination builds character, quitting is habit forming.
Frank Sonnenberg
#95. But now when I think about that night, I think about something my stepdad once said when my mom yelled at him for quitting AA. He just told her in this sad, quiet voice, Sometimes the sickest part of me just seems like the truest part.
Anna North
#96. 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
#97. Quitting internet porn is the equivalent of removing refined sugar or trans-fats from your diet. It is simply the elimination of a form of entertainment that no one had until recently, and everyone got along without.
Anonymous
#98. I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?
Jill Konrath
#99. A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong.
Russell Brand
#100. 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
