Quitting Quotes
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
You've got quite a good voice, the problem I have is this looks to me like 10 years ago. (Quote by - Simon Cowell)
It's bad now, quite honestly, but it's getting to a point where we can make a difference. (Quote by - Homer)
We are not that flash, me or the missus [Madonna]. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance. (Quote by - Guy Ritchie)
It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you. (Quote by - Claudia Lady Bird Johnson)
I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting. (Quote by - Evan Dando)
Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for centuries!-Lestat (Quote by - Interview with the Vampire)
No man ever quite believes in any other man. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. (Quote by - Ella Fitzgerald)
I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar. (Quote by - Christine Lahti)
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first … Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. (Quote by - Richard Milhouse Nixon)
Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
Never quit. It is the easiest cop-out in the world. Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it. When you do attain it, set another goal, and don't quit until you reach it. Never quit. (Quote by - Bear Bryant)
I've a full-length triple-panel mirror in which I can see every possible angle, and I spend quite a lot of time in front of it. (Quote by - Loretta Young)
The intensity of the quake was quite strong enough - but the shoddy materials may have caused even more deaths. (Quote by - Bushra Gohar)
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive injury. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel Chapin)
I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing. (Quote by - Silvia Colloca)
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. (Quote by - Anita Koddick)
Defeat does not finish a man, quitting does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday. (Quote by - Roselle Mercier Montgomery)
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. (Quote by - Conrad Hilton)
If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic. (Quote by - Jack Lemon)
A quitter never wins and a winner never quits. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. (Quote by - William Howard Taft)
I just didn't quite have it. (Quote by - Tiger Woods)
Never give up on anybody. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back (Quote by - Marianne Moore)
One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting. (Quote by - Mariah Carey)
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
You can never quit. Winner never quit, and quitters never win. (Quote by - Ted Turner)
Winners never quit and quitters never win. (Quote by - Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi)
I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever. (Quote by - Barbara Cook)
A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. (Quote by - Richard M. Nixon)
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. (Quote by - Henry Youngman)
We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week. (Quote by - Willie Nelson)
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. (Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well. (Quote by - Laurent Jalabert)
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. (Quote by - Walt Disney)
She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
I've never been one to quit and I'm not about to quit now. I'll keep competing and preparing as if I was the starter. (Quote by - Casey Paus)
We're not quite so bumbling and hopeless as you like to think. (Quote by - Nigel Kneale)
Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off. (Quote by - Bryan Ferry)
It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments, (Quote by - Franz Beckenbauer)
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. (Quote by - Bill Clinton)
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? (Quote by - Lewis H. Lapham)
With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person. (Quote by - Kate Beckinsale)
Quite frankly Ted, the very mention of the word ‘Republican' seems to have negative connotations for the Americans in our studio. (Quote by - Frank Luntz)
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)
Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have. (Quote by - John Tesh)
It matters if you just don't give up. (Quote by - Stephen William Hawking)
For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting. (Quote by - Meat Loaf)
We're vulnerable on that one, ... They've done quite a job on me as 'favoring the rich' in our tax policies. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes (Quote by - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.)
Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does. (Quote by - Richard Nixon)
When you blame others, you give up your power to change. (Quote by - Douglas Noel Adams)
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. (Quote by - Arnold Palmer)
The sight of him did something to me I've never quite been able to explain. He was more than tremendous strength and speed and beauty of motion. He set me dreaming. (Quote by - Walt Morey)
It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling. (Quote by - Will Smith)
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it. (Quote by - Raymond Holliwel)
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired you quit when the gorilla is tired. (Quote by - Robert Strauss)
A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job (Quote by - Zig Ziglar)
Quite simply, condoms are cool, and using them is cooler. We want to make it trendy, hip and cool to use condoms, (Quote by - Bill Roedy)
The reaction to me out on the stump was quite hostile. (Quote by - Tony Banks)
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. (Quote by - Michael Jordon)
Our political differences, now matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions. (Quote by - John McCain)
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. (Quote by - Napolean Hill)
The Fed has been kind of on autopilot here for quite a while, ... Now all of a sudden they're going to have to start doing some work. I don't think a robotic response is appropriate here. (Quote by - Brian Bethune)
I would rather quit while I was ahead. There's no need in overstaying your welcome. (Quote by - River Phoenix)
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter. (Quote by - Steven Pearl)
To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible. (Quote by - Jan Morris)
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. (Quote by - Vince lombardi)
Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin. (Quote by - Andy Hertzfeld)
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Relaxed Empiricism -- I only believe something to be true if someone I know quite well tells me if happened. (Quote by - Bill Bailey)
Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future. (Quote by - Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli)
No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
With a lift of his chin, and a bit of a grin/ Without any doubting or "quit it,"/ He started to sing, as he tackled the thing/ That couldn't be done, and he did it. (Quote by - Edgar A. Guest)
This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is. (Quote by - John McEnroe)
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. (Quote by - Charlie Brown)
Some people fold after making one timid request. They quit too soon. Keep asking until you find the answers. (Quote by - Jack Canfield)
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. (Quote by - Alfred Hitchcock)
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can. (Quote by - Cary Grant)
The future... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done. (Quote by - Edward Young)
After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirins. (Quote by - Fred Allen)
I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Fight the tendancy to quit while you're behind. (Quote by - Dave Weinbaum)
She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them. (Quote by - Robert Lynd)
It stuck with me for quite a while, (Quote by - Bobby Valentine)
The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit. (Quote by - David Lee Roth)
I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice. (Quote by - Queen Victoria)
I won't quit skating until I am physically unable. (Quote by - Tony Hawk)
I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. (Quote by - J. D. Salinger)
All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot (Quote by - Dr. Seuss)
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Of all the stratagems, to know when to quit is the best (Quote by - Chinese Proverbs)
Nothing quite new is perfect. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him. (Quote by - Howard Staunton)
You always say "I'll quit when I start to slide," and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid. (Quote by - Sugar Ray Robinson)
Jesus Christ would be quite interesting, but Bart Simpson would be brilliant. (Quote by - Steve Harmison)
Cool, and quite English, imperturbable. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day. (Quote by - W. Earl Hall)
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 touch. (Quote by - H. Ross Perot)
Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years. (Quote by - Conan O'Brien)
I quit, and then I started again, and then I quit, and then I started again. (Quote by - Brad Pitt)
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Quitting is never an option. The cows have to be milked come Hell or High Water. (Quote by - Robert Schuller)
Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do. (Quote by - Baltasar Gracian)
When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath - or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help! (Quote by - Friedrich von Schiller)
They are a scrappy team and they didn't quit. They battled the whole way. (Quote by - Tom Petty)
This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well. (Quote by - Mikey Way)
The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
Quit while you're ahead (Quote by - Proverb)
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission. (Quote by - Robert Burns)
During that one stretch the middle opened up quite a bit more. It was difficult to create shots, but it was possible, not impossible. (Quote by - Betsy Rietema)
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado. (Quote by - Mary Cheney)
When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. (Quote by - Leo Burnett)
Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. (Quote by - Paul Eldridge)
I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase. (Quote by - Sally Kirkland)
I quite agree with you, sir, but what can two do against so many? (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. (Quote by - Patrick Henry)
The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it. (Quote by - Bear Bryant)
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. (Quote by - W. C. Fields)
A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. (Quote by - Homer)
I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through…whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it. (Quote by - Vernon Howard)
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit. (Quote by - Robert Schuller)
I've banged my head quite a bit. I liked Iron Maiden, Ozzy, AC/DC. And of course, Ratt and Poison. (Quote by - Cameron Diaz)
It's been quite a roller coaster ride, but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives.For that I give thanks. (Quote by - Christina Aguilera)
I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air. (Quote by - Carry Nation)
Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
All that nose twitching becomes quite addictive after a while. It was hard to switch off (Quote by - Nicole Kidman)
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. (Quote by - Marlon Brando)
Butterflies... not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. (Quote by - Elizabeth Goudge)
I felt quite connected with Carlos before I met him. (Quote by - Tim Burton)
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. (Quote by - Lance Armstrong)
If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war. (Quote by - Ernie Pyle)
Quitting doesn't enter my mind. (Quote by - Jimmy Buffett )
Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition. (Quote by - Charles Williams)
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. (Quote by - William Osler)
I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up. (Quote by - Dane Cook)
Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever! (Quote by - Eliot Ness)
If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever said it (Quote by - Tom Lehrer)
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. (Quote by - Charles Simic)
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. (Quote by - Christopher Isherwood)
We said 'You're going to have to quit this. It's gonna get you. You just don't win with heroin. You die or you go to jail. There's no middle ground. There's no other options,' (Quote by - Tom Petty)
Champions don't quit. (Quote by - Mike tyson)
It's always too early to quit. (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
God Almighty hates a quitter. (Quote by - Samuel Fessenden)
Disclaimer: If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it. (Quote by - T. Lehrer)
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting. (Quote by - Sue Johanson)
I think the ears are a strange look for me. Quite big. But I loved the hair down to my shoulders. It felt right. I'm thinking of letting my hair go. (Quote by - Billy Boyd)
It's always too soon to quit! (Quote by - Norman Vincent Peale)
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. (Quote by - Babe Ruth)
It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat. (Quote by - Fiorello LaGuardia)
Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did. (Quote by - Alex Chilton)
I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul. (Quote by - Douglas MacArthur)
It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying. (Quote by - Christy Turlington)
Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small–never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. (Quote by - Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill)
The first thing you ought to do when you find yourself in a hole is quit digging. . . . Instead they are looking for a bigger shovel. (Quote by - Bill Clinton)
Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
I'm not a slave to objectivity. I'm never quite sure what it means. And it means different things to different people. (Quote by - Peter Jennings)
Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the idea is quite staggering. (Quote by - Arthur Charles Clarke)
I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure. (Quote by - Tommy Cooper)
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. (Quote by - Lance Armstrong)
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. (Quote by - John Dewey)
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. (Quote by - Elizabeth II)
