Quitting Quotes - Page 14

• Don't give up, what've you do; eyes front, head high to the finish. See it through!

  Edgar Guest

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Eye

  Edgar Albert Guest, “See It Through”

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• Cease your insults to God, quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame, lying, and cowardly excuses. Enlist!

  Charles Studd

  Lying, Blood, Lame

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• When it comes to mountains there are two kinds of people; those who walk half way up & quit & those who conquer it which one are you?

  Ricardo Viana Vargas

  Two, People, Addiction

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• No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

  J. Frank Dobie

  Cowboy, Duty, Hardest

  J. Frank Dobie, John D. Young (1998). “A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young”, p.99, University of Texas Press

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• At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

  Sandy Adams

  School, Air, Age

  "House passes GOP version of Violence Against Women Act renewal" by Kate Bolduan, www.cnn.com. May 16, 2012.

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• If the day ever comes when I can swallow defeat, I'll quit.

  Toe Blake

  Defeat, Ifs, I Can

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• Playing octaves was just a coincidence. And it's still such a challenge, like chord versions, block chords like cats play on piano. There are a lot of things that can be done with it, but each is a field of its own. I used to have headaches every time I played octaves, because it was extra strain, but the minute I'd quit I'd be all right. But now I don't have headaches when I play octaves.

  Wes Montgomery

  Block, Cat, Play

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• But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Forever, Champion

  "Every Second Counts". Book by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins Copyright, www.today.com. 2003.

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• I didnt quit movies. They quit me.

  Jane Powell

  Jane Powell (2014). “The Girl Next Door...And How She Grew”, p.81, Untreed Reads

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• The only way I will leave this job will be because of results. I'm too stubborn to quit because of criticism - too stubborn.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Jobs, Criticism, Stubborn

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• They [Greenpeace] forgot their original purpose and turned into a big, rich bureaucracy, more interested in fund-raising than in saving lives, so I got fed up and quit... they're a bunch of wimps.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Wimps, Purpose

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• I always tell my husband, 'That's it, I quit, I've done all I wanted,' and he's just like, 'Yeah, yeah. Sure.'

  Helen Mirren

  Husband, Live Your Life, Done

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Quitting is unthinkable and pain is just weakness leaving the body

  Karl Marlantes

  Pain, Leaving, Weakness

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.21, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Throughout the history of game development, the game control mechanism has become more and more sophisticated, ... Perhaps those who have quit gaming or who have never played games look at the game controller and think it's too difficult to play, even before they dare to touch it.

  Satoru Iwata

  Thinking, Games, Play

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• If someone does offer you a job, say 'yes.' You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing.

  Stephen Colbert

  Wisdom, Jobs, Yes You Can

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• If they want to come out and watch me paint or dig potatoes or mend fences, I don't care. I don't do interviews not because I have anything to hide, but when you retire, the word has a meaning to me. It's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work. You develop an attitude where you can do what you please.

  Tom T. Hall

  Attitude, Journey, Watches

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• My new year's resolution is definitely to quit smoking. I need to do it.

  Zayn Malik

  New Year, Years, Smoking

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• A past President, bullied and sandbagged by a monkey posing as a newscaster, finally lashed back....The nation's marketplace of ideas is being poisoned by a propaganda company so blatant that Tokyo Rose would've quit....As with all the other nefariousness and slime of this, our worst presidency since James Buchanan, he [President Bush] is having it done for him, by proxy. Thus, the sandbag effort by Fox News Friday afternoon.

  Keith Olbermann

  Friday, Past, Ideas

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• I don't know why songwriters struggle. They have to, I guess. If you're a young songwriter, quit struggling. It makes you look bad.

  Tom T. Hall

  Struggle, Looks, Young

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• I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice, should suffer the full penalty of Egyptian law against medical innovation; as I would consign to the pillory, the wretch, who out of regard to his character, that is, to his fees, should follow the routine, when, from constant experience he is sure that his patient will die under it, provided any, not inhuman, deviation would give his patient a chance.

  Thomas Beddoes

  Death, Character, Science

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• When you view marketing from the vantage point of the guerrilla, you realize that it’s your opportunity to help your prospects and customers succeed. They want to succeed at earning more money, building their company, losing weight, attracting a mate, becoming more fit, or quitting smoking. You can help them. You can show them how to achieve their goal. Marketing is not about you. It’s about them. I hope you never forget that.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Opportunity, Views, Goal

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• I fell into this business by accident. It wasn't something I ever aspired to be: an actress. It just happened. It has evolved into an insane passion... a creative outlet. But nothing more. It's my hobby... one of the ways I express myself as an artist. And the day it becomes a job... a career... I will quit...

  Shailene Woodley

  Jobs, Passion, Artist

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.

  Lynn Johnston

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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• The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified... and pick yourself.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Giving, Waiting

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• Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

  David Goggins

  Want, Moments, That Moment

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