Quitting Quotes - Page 27

• Every ship is a romantic object, except that we sail in. Embark, and the romance quits our vessel, and hangs on every other sail in the horizon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Romantic, Envy, Romance

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• What I am anxious to do is to secure my legislation.... What I want to do is to get through that, and if I can point to a record of usefulness of that kind, I am entirely willing to quit office.

  William Howard Taft

  Office, Want, Records

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• If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

  Ingrid Weir

  Trying, Firsts, Succeed

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• If it isn't going to matter to you in 5 years, quit stressing about it. (Also, quit b*tching about it. It might matter when you're all alone in 5 yrs because you're annoying now.)

  Ingrid Weir

  Stress, Years, Might

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• To quit religion is to start walking in the space! Don't be afraid, you don't fall into the void, because you can hold onto God and science!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fall, Science, Space

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• All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.

  Bobby Knight

  Running, Morning, Kids

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• 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

  People, Smoking, Cigarette

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• I stopped smoking weed for my kids. One day, we were driving and you could smell it from somewhere. My daughter asked what the smell was so I told her it was a skunk. Then she said, 'Sometimes Daddy smells like that!' to me and my wife. So I knew I had to quit.

  Mark Wahlberg

  Daughter, Weed, Kids

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• I didn't quit drinking because I was a bad drunk. I quit because I was a spectacular drunk. It got to be like a video game, where you get to the highest level and it's not even a challenge any more.

  David Feherty

  Drinking, Games, Drunk

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• 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

  Mother, School, Rejection

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• The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

  Coleman Barks

  Religious, Religion, Individuality

  Coleman Barks (2010). “The Essential Rumi - reissue: New Expanded Edition”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• They asked me why I don't quit drinking, I told 'em I'm not a quitter.

  The Weeknd

  Drinking, Ems, Quitter

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2012

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• If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.

  Eric Thomas

  Want, Habit, Reinventing Yourself

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• When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities. When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They're less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.

  Steve Goodier

  Giving Up, Difficult Situations, People

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• To say, “I've been converted and that's that,” is to say you have decided to quit growing. If life is about anything, it is about growing. The day I quit changing and learning is the day I die.

  Steve Goodier

  Growing, Life Is, I Quit

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• I've put pencil to paper... and I've said I would cut spending, and I've said exactly where. Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Hate, Taken

  Rand Paul during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• I think we ought to quit sending [help] to countries that burn our flag.

  Rand Paul

  Country, Thinking, Flags

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The Australian sense of humor is very dry, sarcastic, and very undercover. Like if I tell any jokes in America, people just think I'm serious! So I just quit telling any jokes whatsoever.

  Heath Ledger

  Sarcastic, Thinking, America

  "Remembering Heath Ledger" by Prairie Miller, newsblaze.com. January 23, 2008.

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• Marijuana does not lead to harder drugs. People will get bored of the pot and move on down the line to stronger drugs to get the high they need. They either stay with pot or quit.

  Steven Machat

  Moving, Marijuana, People

  "A Cannabis Crusader Brings the Fight for Legal Weed to America’s Heartland". Interview with Stacey Chillemi, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2016.

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• God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.

  LeCrae

  Running, Race, People

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• God has blessed me in many ways. Money is not the greatest blessing you can have, but I literally had absolutely nothing. The first message that I preached at Life in the Word, I had to borrow a suit from my pastor's wife, because I didn't have any decent clothes, and I was driving a 20-year-old car. We went through a lot of years of having nothing, sleeping in McDonald's parking lots, because we didn't have money to stay all night in a hotel. But, like anybody else who works hard and is diligent and doesn't quit and doesn't give up, there is a day the blessings come.

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving Up, Blessed, Sleep

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• I don't want to quit. I've always said that Clint Eastwood is one of my best friends. I've known Clint for many years and we have almost a jokey relationship about retirement. I always say: "OK Clint, are you ready to retire this year?" And he always says: "No, are you?" So, I'm waiting for the phone call where Clint says he's hanging up his spurs. That's never going to happen. If it doesn't happen for Clint, it won't happen for me.

  Steven Spielberg

  Retirement, Phones, Years

  "War Horse - Steven Spielberg interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I hate complaining about paparazzi, I hate complaining about being recognised, because if I ultimately didn't want to be an actor or in the public eye, I would quit doing what I do. That's not the reason I do it, but I love the work so much that it's worth it.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Hate, Eye, Complaining

  "The Star of Africa". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. January 24, 2007.

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• History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Wonderful, Deals, Ideology

  Interview with Nicole Sealey, mosaicmagazine.org. September 6, 2013.

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• Even the worst job has its benefits and so does being a professional literary agent, and - I know I said this at the time but I still believe it - the worst job is the one that you know is wrong for you, but you still do it. You're afraid to quit.

  John Hodgman

  Jobs, Believe, Doe

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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