Quitting Quotes - Page 33

• My friend is an idiot. He smokes three packs of cigarettes a day. He won't quit, either. His big excuse is, "Why should I quit smoking? Anything could kill me. I could be walking down the street one day and i could be hit by a bus." Maybe if you quit smoking you could cross the street a hell of a lot faster.

  Gregg Rogell

  Smoking, One Day, Three

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• We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

  Mark Batterson

  Giving Up, Miracle, Praying

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• 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

  Thinking, Self, Sometimes

  Glennon Doyle Melton (2013). “Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• One thing that will make you quit smoking is sitting across from Keith Richards all night. I don't mind being ugly, but I sure don't want to look like that.

  Kid Rock

  Night, Smoking, Mind

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• If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.

  Milton Berle

  Payroll, Ifs

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• When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's the whole reason that I did a solo career. And that's, you know, when I told Fleetwood Mac I was going to do that, they were of course terrified that I would do that record and then that I would quit.

  Stevie Nicks

  Careers, Three, Band

  "Stevie Nicks: 'When We Walk Into The Room, We Have To Float In Like Goddesses'". Interview with Ann Powers, www.npr.org. March 17, 2013.

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• Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him "the mind of Christ," the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Humility, Godly

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• Losers are winners who quit,...even if you lose...you still win...if you don't quit.

  Cus D'Amato

  Winning, Loser, Winner

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• There are two sure ways to fail: never get started and quit before you succeed. Many companies promote the language of risk-taking and innovation but are so concerned with short term profit goals that their culture discourages innovation (trying new things) and abandons promising projects too soon. It shouldn't require exceptional moral courage to try new things and stick with them.

  Michael Josephson

  Two, Goal, Risk

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• I won't quit on a player who doesn't quit on himself.

  Charlie Manuel

  Player

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• A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

  B. F. Skinner

  Disappointment, Errors, Might

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• Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.

  Barbara Sher

  Dream, Jobs, Real

  Barbara Sher (2010). “I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It”, p.53, Dell

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• The University of California has been selected as the poster child of animal abuse at laboratories. It's been shown that the tactics are more effective if you just hit one person over and over and get them to quit what they're doing.

  Jerry Vlasak

  Children, Animal, California

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• I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.

  Larry Clark

  Years, Ideas, Down And

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• Every member must work or quit. No honorary members.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Members, Honorary

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• Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Running, Memories, Bus Stops

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• Great people are just ordinary people with an extraordinary amount of determination. They simply don't know how to quit. They just keep on 'keepin' on'.

  Rick Warren

  Determination, People, Ordinary

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• People who go to work to be a part of the cause don't go home. They are home. Now - who wants to quit?

  Simon Sinek

  Home, People, Want

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• It's awful to have a depression, but it's a great thing to have a depression mentality because it means that we are not speculating, we are not living beyond our means, we don't quit our job to take a big risk because we know we might not get another job. There is something stable about a country, a society built on those values.

  Seth Klarman

  Country, Jobs, Mean

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• Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.

  Albert Goldbarth

  Tired, Sleep, Shoes

  Albert Goldbarth (1991). “Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology : Poems”, p.118, University of Georgia Press

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• 'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

  Willie Aames

  Giving Up, Thinking, Vocabulary

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• Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.

  Muhammad Ali

  Morning, Soul, Sunrise

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

  Will Rogers

  Want, Audience, Knows

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• This is my 51st year, but I'm not ready to quit. I definitely didn't think when I first started back in 1963 that I'd be doing this for 50 years, but how many guys can say they do it? When retirement comes, I'm not sure when it is, but I'll be ready for it.

  Verne Lundquist

  Retirement, Thinking, Years

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• 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

  Regret, Decision, Emotion

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