When To Quit Quotes

#1. Well, it is a good thing he died young. Most men don't have the good sense to know
when to quit this earth. At least your husband didn't drag on and on like some do.

Karen Hawkins

#2. Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

James Taylor

#3. We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

Sharif Abdullah

#4. It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

Will Rogers

#5. People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

George Allen

#6. I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.

Meredith Brooks

#7. The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.

David Lee Roth

#8. We miss a lot in life because we don't know when to quit, what to leave out.

Ethel Waters

#9. The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

Paulette Jiles

#10. After 87 pictures in 47 years, I knew when to quit.

Joel McCrea

#11. To make him important in one's life requires an overactive imagination. Unfortunately, mine never knows when to quit.

Carrie Fisher

#12. You were always an underdog in a videogame, but always guaranteed to win if you just kept plugging away, learned the moves, knew when to Save and when to Quit.

Danny Wallace

#13. I've always admired your rather formidable will, your refusal to back away from difficulties, but sometimes strength isn't about perseverance. Sometimes it's about knowing when to quit.

Jennifer Donnelly

#14. What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. Hospitality is gold in this City; you have to be clever to figure out how to be welcoming and defensive at the same time. When to love something and when to quit. If you don't know how, you can end up out of control or controlled by some outside thing like that hard case last winter.

Toni Morrison

#16. A voracious gambler does not gamble until he wins, but until he loses everything, and a smart one knows when to quit.

M. T. Panchal

#17. Are you committed to the craft, or will you quit when it gets too hard?

Jeff Goins

#18. I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

Gretchen Carlson

#19. My message is to never quit, never give up. When you have a little trouble here and there, just keep fighting. In the end, it will pay off.

Gabby Douglas

#20. When I quit The New York Times to be a fulltime mother, the voices of the world said I was nuts ... But if success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your soul, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

#21. My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

Rob Zombie

#22. I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.

Will Rogers

#23. There are times when we should, remember, the strange courage, of the second-rate who refuse to quit, when the nights, are black and long and sleepless, and the days are without, end.

Charles Bukowski

#24. I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

Wendy Liebman

#25. I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

Karen Marshall

#26. I'm going to miss him like hell when he's gone," she eventually continued. "It's going to rip half my soul out. If you weren't here for me, I would fucking give up and die the minute he quit breathing.

Tymber Dalton

#27. All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Babe Ruth

#28. Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do.

Anna Pavlova

#29. When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

Loni Anderson

#30. Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.

Martha Beck

#31. I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job.

Eric Bana

#32. 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

#33. The reason I quit being a sales manager over twenty years now is because I hate elevator pitches. I want to write stories and show people what's in them when they read them, not tell them all about it ahead of time.

Kurt Busiek

#34. I quit my job in the bank when I was 19. I took a chance. I went to Milan to study opera and singing. My father really supported me economically.

Marcello Giordani

#35. I was 16 when I quit gymnastics and decided to start acting. I started booking immediately after. I was very lucky and fortunate, but I also did the hard work. Half of it's hard work and half of it's luck. It's been working out so far. Fingers crossed for the future.

Nina Dobrev

#36. We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Joyce Meyer

#37. Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.

Franklyn Ajaye

#38. When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

Hubert H. Humphrey

#39. Winners never quit, and quitters never win. Once you give up, you'll have to start all over again. Success take time, especially when you need it. The one is patient remains undefeated.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#40. Rorschach: Used to come here often, back when we were partners.
Dreiberg: Oh. Uh, yeah ... yeah, those were great times, Rorschach. Great times. Whatever happened to them?
Rorschach: [exiting] You quit.

Alan Moore

#41. As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

Mariska Hargitay

#42. I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.

Jack Nicklaus

#43. 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

#44. (sergeant thinking about an excellent detective who's threatening to quit)
For a squad sergeant, having Worden working for you was like having sex: When it was good it was great and even when it wasn't so hot, it was still pretty damn good.

David Simon

#45. You ever wonder if it's really not more complicated than that?" I ask. "That maybe everyone else is right, and people like you and me just need to quit looking for stuff to be depressed about?" She looks up, and then back at her dirt, dismissing this stupidity without comment. When

Matthew Norman

#46. When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives.

George Foreman

#47. When you want to quit a 'bad habit, think about what 'good' it's doing in your life.

Trishna Damodar

#48. I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

Lance Armstrong

#49. Kind of where you end up your ride on a horse is so important. It's a little bit like when you guys were younger & you were dating, that last two minutes of the date can be a real deal breaker. With these horses it's the same thing you know? You got to quit on a good note.

Buck Brannaman

#50. When I tell a woman you really need to quit your soul-sucking job, she goes home, and she can tell her husband, 'I need to quit,' and he's like, 'O.K., let's do it.'

Martha Beck

#51. Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.

Dane Cook

#52. 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

#53. When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all.

George Carlin

#54. I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

George Ella Lyon

#55. We can talk about it all we want. But there comes a time when you just have to get it done and quit talking about it. There's been a lot of talk here and not enough doing.

Todd Helton

#56. Anyone can quit, but it takes a strong, committed person not to quit when times are tough.

Pat Summitt

#57. You realize you're going to have to quit doing that? Can't exactly convince the other ladies of the court that my husband's committed to knocking me up when you can see him starring in Ass Commando 7 for thirty-nine ninety-five.

Vaughn R. Demont

#58. Baseball players quit playing and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. Football players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?

George Archer

#59. When life pushes you to quit something, just do it without any questions for that happens in two cases - either life has something better than that in store for you or that thing is going to harm you beyond repair soon.

Namrata

#60. When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you?

Ricardo Viana Vargas

#61. Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.

Bear Bryant

#62. Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Ross Perot

#63. I believe I've still got lots and lots to do. When I left Herman's Hermits in 1973, I said one day I'm gonna be in a Broadway show, and I thought it would be in 1974. Then, it took me ten years to do it, but I didn't ever quit.

Peter Noone

#64. If the deaf are to hear, the sound has to be very loud. When we dropped the bomb, it was not our intention to kill anybody. We have bombed the British Government. The British must quit India and make her free.

Bhagat Singh

#65. I felt my throat start to close up, and I didn't think I was getting enough oxygen. I was scared, and I thought about quitting. But you don't want to quit when you've trained so hard and long for one race.

Deena Kastor

#66. Colin Farrel was recently asked about prostitutes and he said, It's like ordering a pizza. Really? What restaurant is he going to? All I ever get is a pizza ... I guess in some ways it is - when it's delivered, it's never quite as hot as you hoped it would be.

Jay Leno

#67. A man loves a woman so much, he asks her to marry - to change her name, quit her job, have and raise his babies, be home when he gets there, move where his job is. You can hardly imagine what he might ask if he didn't love her.

Gabrielle Burton

#68. No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Richard Petty

#69. There were many times during our career when he could've quit and done something else. But he knew that his power was with the Grateful Dead. He didn't want to go solo. Jerry was a groupist. He loved to group.

Mickey Hart

#70. I think music changed when Bruce Springstee came on the scene. I think if it wasn't for Bruce Springstee, music would have gone in a very scary direction. We may have gotten to where disco music ruled - and I would've had to quit.

Jeff Baxter

#71. One lies there," I thought, "who will soon be beyond the war of earthly elements. Whither will that spirit -- now struggling to quit its material tenement -- flit when at length released?

Charlotte Bronte

#72. When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Joyce Meyer

#73. When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

Don Rickles

#74. If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

Dave Brubeck

#75. It's when you feel worse, that's when your character comes out and the last thing you want to do is quit.

Paul T. Scheuring

#76. If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.

Eugene H. Peterson

#77. It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.

Gail Sheehy

#78. There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

Chris Cornell

#79. Jesus," Dante interjected when the heavy quiet in the vehicle seemed endless. "All this touchy feely is making me itchy to kill something. How about we quit jerking each other off and go blow the roof off this mutha?

Lara Adrian

#80. You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

Sugar Ray Robinson

#81. Here's an assignment for you: Write it down. Write down under what circumstances you're willing to quit. And when. And then stick with it.

Seth Godin

#82. I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.

Macaulay Culkin

#83. I squeezed the controls to brace myself so I wouldn't shiver with the chill of wanting. Normal people got that feeling when they quit smoking cigarettes. I had gotten it then too.
Normal people did not get that feeling when faced with danger.

Jennifer Echols

#84. When life's surface reality seems to get too challenging and you can't think your way out of your reality, quit thinking. Simply drop into the space between thoughts where your unlimited potentiality resides.

Sue Ziang

#85. I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.

Sonja Sohn

#86. When your own mind tells you to quit, you must ignore your negative thoughts and press on.

Robert Kiyosaki

#87. Never Quit ... Never ever Quit ... You might feel weak when there is someone stronger and more skilled than you are, but if you don't quit there is a chance to prove your determination ... but quitting makes you lose already ...

Swetha Dhanagari

#88. But I've mellowed over time, which is what all wine drunks and dope smokers say when trying to justify why they quit trying.

Chuck Klosterman

#89. What will I do with myself when I retire? When I quit my job, I do not want to quit living. Can I possibly be of use when retirement day comes, or will I just be taking up space?

John Anthony West

#90. Quit pretending to be humble when you are really just a self-abusing, emotional, drama junkie.

Bryant McGill

#91. You will enjoy the fulfillment of your potential when you develop it. And the way to do that is by keeping at it, refusing to quit and never giving up.

Joyce Meyer

#92. One of the happiest days of my life was when I quit waiting for "happily-ever-after" to come find me and proclaimed joy in the just now season of life. And the next season. And the next.

Vicki Courtney

#93. Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Jackie Robinson

#94. The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, 'Ow, I gotta get out of the way,' but not enough to say, 'I quit.'

William Shatner

#95. There are plenty of things I wish I'd known when I decided to quit my position at IBM and work on the idea that later became TaskRabbit. Maybe that's why one of the things I cherish most about being a founder and CEO is the opportunity to offer advice to new entrepreneurs.

Leah Busque

#96. An entrepreneur's ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.

Donald J. Trump

#97. When it looks impossible and you are ready to quit, victory is near!

Tony Robbins

#98. I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#99. Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

Jerome Cady

#100. When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter - to quit paradise for earth - heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine - taste the hashish.

Alexandre Dumas