Quitting Quotes - Page 18

• Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.

  Herbert Hoover

  Thinking, Doctors, Patient

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• A Winner's Blueprint for Achievement BELIEVE while others are doubting. PLAN while others are playing. STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. COMMEND while others are criticizing. PERSIST while others are quitting.

  William Arthur Ward

  Believe, Sleep, Talking

  William Arthur Ward, “Believe while others”

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• A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

  Tom Peters

  Excellent Work, Excellence, Lines

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.10, Vintage

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• If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should do is quit being moral. Screw the rights of nature. Nature will have rights as soon as it get duties. The minute we see birds, trees, bugs, and squirrels picking up litter, giving money to charity, and keeping an eye on our kids at the park, we'll let them vote.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Kids, Eye, Squirrels

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.201, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You don't get hurt running straight ahead...three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. I will pound you and pound you until you quit.

  Woody Hayes

  Running, Hurt, Clouds

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• Most people quit. If you don't quit, if you rewrite, if you keep publishing in fancier places, you will understand that "What's the secret?" is not the question, which is, "Are you having fun?"

  Robert Lipsyte

  Fun, Writing, People

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• You can always quit, so why quit now.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We live in a society either scarred by scarcity or spoiled by luxury. We have no idea how much is enough. We don't know when to quit.

  Sharif Abdullah

  Simple, Ideas, Luxury

  Sharif M. Abdullah (1999). “Creating a World That Works for All”, p.209, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Baseball, Play

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• When I gave up a grand slam to Pete LaCock, I knew it was time to quit.

  Bob Gibson

  Pitching, Slam, Gave Up

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• I'll quit competing when my heart quits beating

  Michael Jordan

  Leadership, Heart, Competing

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• In life, winning and losing will both happen. What is never acceptable is quitting.

  Magic Johnson

  Basketball, Winning, Losing

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

  Chuck Aaron

  Giving Up, Never Quit, Aviation

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• Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.

  Stephen King

  Memories, Return, Chasing

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• Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.

  Mike Tyson

  Jobs, Thinking, Care

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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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• I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.

  Donald Miller

  Book, Writing, If I Could

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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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