Never Quit Quotes - Page 7

• Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Running, Focus

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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.

  Ethel Waters

  Mom, Regret, Business

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• One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

  Lil Wayne

  Quitting, Skater, Skateboarder

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• You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

  Cynthia Weil

  Believe, Doors, Long

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• I am for peace and all kinds of ways because the total reality is that you never quite, at least in my experience, you never quite get to be peaceful in the profession that we have all chosen. It's a constant yearning, a constant reaching out for the unreachable. And so you never quite find peace within yourself. You are always questioning yourself and challenging yourself and feeling that you would fall short.

  Helen Mirren

  Fall, Reality, Challenges

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I never gave up. I never quit. I've been a leader all my life, from elementary school to president of my class to excelling at college. I had a dream, and my dream sustained me. I wasn't going to let anything stand in my way. I was like a meteorite. I wanted to become a star. It's been quite a journey.

  Jenifer Lewis

  Dream, School, Journey

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• Even though people about us choose the path of hate and violence and warfare and greed and prejudice, we who are Christ's body must throw off these poisons and let love permeate and cleanse every tissue and cell. Nor are we to allow ourselves to become easily discouraged when love is not always obviously successful or pleasant. Love never quits, even when an enemy has hit you on the right cheek and you have turned the other, and he's also hit that.

  Clarence Jordan

  Love, Jesus, Hate

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• That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming.

  Joseph Barbera

  Dream, Order, Racist

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Military, Fighting, Enemy

  Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (2010). “Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it, you'd be unhappy because you'd never be able to reach it. You can incrementally improve your life, but you never quite experience the glamour. You never quite get to your utopia, or whatever it is. And once you realize that you can be quite Buddhist about it, and say, "Well, okay, I'm just going to keep detached from it all."

  Momus

  Buddhist, Progress, Unhappy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

  Alex Haley

  Time, Humble, Trying

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• I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, Mad, Contradiction

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• That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

  Meredith Monk

  Honesty, Voice, Clarity

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• I'm definitely a frustrated musician, though it's more in terms of wishing I was a better guitar player and songwriter. But I've never regretted becoming an actor instead. I think it's been a more pure form of self-expression for me. I luckily found something that I could aspire to be good at, whereas I never... I think I'd never quite reach that level of artist that I enjoy in the music world.

  Cillian Murphy

  Artist, Player, Thinking

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have experienced an earthquake of the soul. You've been torn asunder, invested with an ancient, incomprehensible magic. It's the one thing that we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Earthquakes, Soul, Magic

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• Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

  Diane Keaton

  Diane Keaton (2011). “Then Again”, p.97, Random House

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• Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end.

  Chuck Aaron

  Giving Up, Aviation, Quitting

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• You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

  Peter Shaffer

  Imagination, Leave Me Alone, Strikes

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• Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.

  Dave Chappelle

  Years, Quitting, Seven

  "Dave Chappelle Knows 'There's Not Too Many People That Don't Think I'm Crazy'" by Lesley Messer, abcnews.go.com. June 11, 2014.

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• He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.

  Geoff Dyer

  Errors, Tunes, Keyboards

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• The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.

  Philip Hensher

  Character, Independent, Unique

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• I never quit my job until I had my next job.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Jobs, Next, Quitting

  "How liberal Ashton Kutcher became a conservative darling". www.foxnews.com. August 22, 2013.

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• I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

  Martin Scorsese

  Desire, Stories, Satisfied

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal, but with a near infinite capacity for folly. . . . He draws blueprints for Utopia, but never quite gets it built. In the end he plugs away obstinately with the only building material really ever at hand--his own part comic, part tragic, part cussed, but part glorious nature.

  Robert McNamara

  Animal, Men, Hands

  "McNamara in Context" by Errol Morris, www.nytimes.com. July 8, 2009.

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• Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

  Sam Neill

  Regret, Frightening

  "Fictional character: Cliff Buxton". "The Dish", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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