Never Quit Quotes - Page 4

• We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Gratitude, Quitting

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count of Monte Cristo”, p.19, Xist Publishing

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• I will never quit. My nation expects me to be physically harder and mentally stronger than my enemies. If knocked down i will get back up, every time. I will draw on every remaining ounce of strength to protect my enemies and to accomplish our mission. I am never out of the fight.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Military, Fighting, Enemy

  Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson (2010). “Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

  Martin Scorsese

  Desire, Stories, Satisfied

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work

  Napoleon Hill

  Morning, Giving Up, Writing

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.92, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

  Alex Haley

  Time, Humble, Trying

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• The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

  Dodie Smith

  Funny, Family, Heart

  Dear Octopus (1938) p. 120

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• Nature never quite goes along with us. She is somber at weddings, sunny at funerals, and she frowns on ninety-nine out of a hundred picnics.

  Alexander Smith

  Nature, Ninety Nine, Funeral

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.102, tredition

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• Never quit politicking and never underestimate your opponent.

  Gus Franklin Mutscher

  Political, Politics, Opponents

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• The Humbling is not vintage Roth, despite its compelling premise. The bizarre series of episodes -- mostly sexual encounters with women -- which make up this short novel don't play to Roth's strengths. (...) The Humbling disappoints because it avoids these universal implications, and veers off into a baroque world of the unique and fantastic, never quite deigning to make its world concrete or to give its characters the honour of an independent will.

  Philip Hensher

  Character, Independent, Unique

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• He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to.

  Geoff Dyer

  Errors, Tunes, Keyboards

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• You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

  Peter Shaffer

  Imagination, Leave Me Alone, Strikes

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• Never quit. Never give up. Fly it to the end.

  Chuck Aaron

  Giving Up, Aviation, Quitting

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• American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

  Harvey Pekar

  Ongoing, Splendor, Autobiography

  Interview with Shawna Ervin-Gore, www.darkhorse.com.

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• The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Tragedy, Enough

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.80, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• If youve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

  Tim Burton

  Loneliness, Successful, Feelings

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• There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.

  Christian Wiman

  Home, Ambition, Anxiety

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• Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all.

  Monica Dickens

  Joy, Riding, Complicated

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• Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

  Diane Keaton

  Diane Keaton (2011). “Then Again”, p.97, Random House

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• I never quite understand why we watch the news. There doesn't really seem much point watching somebody tell you what the news is when you could quite easily listen to it on the radio...

  John Hurt

  Watches, News, Radio

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• There are 2 rules in life:
  Number 1- Never quit
  Number2- Never forget rule number 1.

  Duke Ellington

  Numbers, Quitting, Never Forget

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• I've been delighted by Cannes and Toronto but I keep saying I don't know how good we're going to be received in America because that's where it's most challenging

  William Hurt

  America, Challenges, Toronto

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• And every job that I had was a stepping stone to my next job and I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Jobs, Opportunity, Looks

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• I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

  Julie Christie

  People, Marry Me, Structure

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• We did 'Erin Brockovich,' we did 'Man on the Moon,' we did 'Living Out Loud,' but now I'm going to keep going.

  Danny DeVito

  Moon, Men, Loud

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• Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution.

  Daniel Dennett

  Talking, Issues, Long

  Daniel Clement Dennett (1989). “The Intentional Stance”, p.350, MIT Press

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