Quitting Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• We must quit bending the Word to suit our situation. It is we who must be bent to that Word, our necks that must bow under the yoke.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Bending, Yoke, Bows

  Elisabeth Elliot (1989). “On Asking God why”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

  Barry Sanders

  Sports, Winning, Games

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• Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude

  Jean Genet

  Men, Solitude, Different

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• I was a late developer and, at the age of 15, I almost thought of quitting football.

  Ole Gunnar Solskjaer

  Football, Age, Late

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• If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Soccer, Ideas

  "Sir Alex Ferguson hits out at United fans' criticism of Glazers" by Andy Hunter, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2010.

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• Life can be a fearful thing. Everyone needs someone drawing alongside, saying “You can do it. Don’t quit.” Everyone needs someone who believes in them. Everyone needs encouragement.

  Dave Earley

  Encouragement, Believe, Drawing

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• Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Ocean, Often Is, Evil

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.312

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• Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.

  Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

  Book

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• The challenge is simple: Quitting when you hit the Dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the Dip just wastes the time you’ve already invested. Quit in the Dip often enough and you’ll find yourself becoming a serial quitter, starting many things but accomplishing little. Simple: If you can’t make it through the Dip, don’t start. If you can embrace that simple rule, you’ll be a lot choosier about which journeys you start.

  Seth Godin

  Journey, Simple, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.32, Penguin

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• Quit jumping over our feelings!

  Jeremy Davis

  Jumping, Feelings

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• Here's another way of putting it. Roosevelt wants recovery to start at the bottom. In other words, by a system of high taxes, he wants business to help the little fellow to get started and get some work, and then pay business back by buying things when he's at work. Business says, 'Let everybody alone. Let business alone, and quit monkeying with us, and we'll get everything going for you, and if we prosper, naturally the worker will prosper.'

  Will Rogers

  Recovery, Buying Things, Politics

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• Thomas Edison dreamed of a lamp that could be operated by electricity, began where he stood to put his dream into action, and despite more than ten thousand failures, he stood by that dream until he made it a physical reality. Practical dreamers do not quit.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Dream, Reality

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.38, Penguin

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• There is no way to completely fail unless you completely quit.

  Jon Jones

  Inspirational, Way, Failing

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• Do things that make your body and mind scream at you to quit, but don't.

  Forrest Griffin

  Mma, Mind, Body

  FaceBook post by Forrest Griffin from Aug 09, 2016

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• You're not beating when you lose, you're beaten when you quit.

  Jesse Brock

  Mma, Beaten, Loses

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• If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.

  Sister Nivedita

  Struggle, Reality, Sacred

  Sister Nivedita (2016). “Swamiji and His Message”, p.37, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christian, Lying, Hate

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• There's two things you need to know. One, that you won't quit on yourself, and two, that I've done the work.

  Forrest Griffin

  Mma, Two, Needs

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• You can quit anything on a Thursday.

  Bob Goff

  Thursday

  Twitter post from Dec 5, 2013

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• Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.

  Forrest Griffin

  Fighting, Mma, Guy

  Forrest Griffin, Erich Krauss (2009). “Got Fight?: The 50 Zen Principles of Hand-to-Face Combat”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

  Rumi

  War, Faces, Thee

  Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī, Rumi (2015). “Collected Poetical Works of Rumi (Delphi Classics)”, p.514, Delphi Classics

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• I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

  Barry Mann

  College, Years, Architecture

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• A black belt is a white belt who never quits!

  Renzo Gracie

  White, Black, Never Quit

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• I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

  Isaac Marion

  Book, Writing, Giving

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