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• I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end. I never made enough money from comics to be able to take a break and do something else. Now I just can't stand comics. . . . I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

  Julie Doucet

  Art, Drawing, People

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• Brethren, do something; do something, do something! While societies and unions make constitutions, let us win souls. I pray you, be men of action all of you. Get to work and quit yourselves like men. Old Suvarov's idea of war is mine: `Forward and strike! No theory! Attack! Form a column! Charge bayonets! Plunge into the center of the enemy! Our one aim is to win souls; and this we are not to talk about, but do in the power of God!'

  Charles Spurgeon

  War, Winning, Men

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• I was quitting…As I was taking those steps I was saying, ‘Somebody please stop me.’ Lionel Taylor, our receivers coach, said, ‘Hold up a minute,’ and he sat down in the car and we talked. I don’t know what we talked about but I was glad we talked because I went back. And that’s when it started.

  Joe Greene

  Car, Steps, Minutes

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• I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.

  Dolores Huerta

  Children, Kids, Shoes

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• This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn't quit until they made it happen.

  Tim Maleeny

  Running, Writing, Successful

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• If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.

  Warren Buffett

  Trying, Investing, Firsts

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• Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Three, Week

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• That's what I'm gonna do: quit gradually...I'm gonna lose one lung; little while later I'm gonna lose the other one.

  Bill Hicks

  Littles, Lungs, Loses

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• As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.

  Cal Ripken, Jr.

  Long, Three, Lines

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• We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Bending, Yoke, Bows

  Elisabeth Elliot (1989). “On Asking God why”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

  Barry Sanders

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

  Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

  Football, Age, Late

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• If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Soccer, Ideas

  "Sir Alex Ferguson hits out at United fans' criticism of Glazers" by Andy Hunter, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2010.

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• The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Simple, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.32, Penguin

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• Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Dream, Reality

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.38, Penguin

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• If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.

  Sister Nivedita

  Struggle, Reality, Sacred

  Sister Nivedita (2016). “Swamiji and His Message”, p.37, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.

  Laura Furman

  Tasks, Impossible, Resurrection

  Laura Furman (2011). “The Mother Who Stayed: Stories”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.

  Anna Benson

  Dream, Media, Annoyed

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• There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Thinking, Shopping, Justice

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• Zeroth law: You must play the game
  First law: You can't win
  Second law: You can't break even
  Third law: You can't quit the game.

  C.P. Snow

  Winning, Law, Games

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• I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

  Sue Wicks

  Respect, Team, Believe

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• The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.

  Bennett Madison

  Summer, Mother, Beach

  Bennett Madison (2013). “September Girls”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• I had piano lessons when I was a kid, like most people. And hated them, like most people. And quit, like most people.

  Carter Burwell

  Children, Kids, Piano

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• If you never quit, youll never fail.

  Robert Kennedy

  Never Quit, Failing, Ifs

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• Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

  Edwin Louis Cole

  World, Failing, There Is No I In Team

  Edwin Louis Cole (1993). “Real Man”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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