Never Quit Quotes - Page 12

• If you never quit, you're never beaten.

  Ted Turner

  Persistence, Quitting, Beaten

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• I can never quite trust anybody anymore.

  Cat Stevens

  I Can

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• My goal is to never quit.

  Andrew McDermott

  Goal, Quitting

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• You never quite stop loving someone when you're in that deep.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Loving Someone, Stop Loving Someone

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• The spell of power never quite releases its hold.

  Isaac Asimov

  Power, Release, Spells

  Isaac Asimov (2004). “Second Foundation”, p.139, Spectra

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• When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling like a ghost. Eating to take up space, eating to give yourself the feeling that you have weight here, you belong here, you are allowed to be yourself -- but never quite believing it because you don't sense yourself directly.

  Geneen Roth

  Being Yourself, Believe, Space

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• I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Self, Hatred, Ignorant

  "Minority Report". The Nation, October 19, 1992.

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• We all start in this medium because of the magic and the challenge is to keep it going.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Artist, Challenges

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• Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Creativity, Soul, Progressive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1404, Delphi Classics

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• Once you grow accustomed to being famous, you do not realize it, but you are never quite your humble, honest self. No matter how tightly you keep the lid on, there is some watered stock of vanity inside. You are always in danger of the thing's coming off and of giving yourself an air or two. No man or woman was ever so distinguished that this exhibition did not make him ridiculous, especially to those of meaner minds.

  Corra May Harris

  Humble, Men, Air

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  Easy is not a option..No days off..Never Quit..Be Fearless..Talent you have Naturally..Skill is only developed by hours and hours of Work

  Usain Bolt

  Skills, Fearless, Days Off

  FaceBook post by Usain Bolt from Jan 28, 2014

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• You must not only have competitiveness but ability, regardless of the circumstance you face, to never quit

  Abby Wambach

  Faces, Quitting, Circumstances

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• The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Atmosphere, Genius, Body

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2006, Delphi Classics

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• Priests, magistrates and ladies never quite take off their gowns.

  Honore de Balzac

  Gowns, Priests, Magistrates

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• That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Loyalty, People, Matter

  Shirley Hazzard (2004). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, p.175, Macmillan

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• Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Believe, Faults, Merit

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Enlightenment

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• Wail not too wildly for expiring Love: The Love that dies was never quite alive.

  Richard B. Garnett

  Love, Alive, Dies

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• all the French speak French - even the children. Many Americans and Britishers who visit the country never quite adjust to this, and the idea persists that the natives speak the language just to show off or be difficult.

  Olivia de Havilland

  Country, Children, Ideas

  Olivia de Havilland (2016). “Every Frenchman Has One”, p.31, Crown Archetype

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• Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

  Alex Turner

  Song, Writing, Perfection

  Source: www.gq.com

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• ... there was a part of me that wanted to be liked, and despite all my years of reporting, I never quite adjusted to the role of skunk at the garden party.

  Andrea Mitchell

  Party, Garden, Years

  Andrea Mitchell (2006). “Talking Back: To Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels”, p.210, Penguin

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• At the heart of good education are those gifted, hardworking, and memorable teachers whose inspiration kindles fires that never quite go out, whose remembered encouragement is sometimes the only hard ground we stand upon, and whose very selves are the stuff of the best lessons they ever teach us. Most of us, no matter how long ago it's been, can name our kindergarten teacher. Our first music teacher. Our junior high algebra teacher. Good teachers never die.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Education, Teacher, Encouragement

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• You never quite know where your emotions will take you.

  Jacob Vargas

  Emotion, Knows

  "Jacob Vargas from Sons of Anarchy: Making the Most of Pain, Chaos, and Love". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

  Martin McDonagh

  Actors, Dynamics, Stuff

  "Martin McDonagh on the violence and camaraderie of his Seven Psychopaths". Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 11, 2012.

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• I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.

  Hallie Ephron

  Writing, Preparation, Fiction

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