Quitting Quotes - Page 25

• Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice?

  George Washington

  Ambition, Destiny, Europe

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• I never want to quit playing ball, They'll have to cut this uniform off me to get me out of it

  Roy Campanella

  Cutting, Balls, Want

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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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• The only way to find that territory is trying to keep your mind constantly open. That's the only way that you're ever going to see the sort of signs of where to go.

  Squarepusher

  Mind, Trying, Territory

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• I quit politics because I hated it.

  Roger Ailes

  I Quit, Hated

  "Roger Ailes obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2017.

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• Raise up the people beside you & quit worshipping those above you.

  Chris Brogan

  People, Social Media, Raises

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• If you are feeling tired or ill, rest. Your body will always want rest and ease if it's sick. When you become quiet, ask your body what you need to do in order to heal yourself. Your body may tell you to change certain habits, eat more wholesome food, express some feelings, quit your job, see a doctor, or it may have some other message for you, but there is always an answer available to you. The key is to ask and then listen honestly for a response.

  Shakti Gawain

  Jobs, Tired, Order

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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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• I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition.

  John Updike

  Country, Athlete, Trying

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• Some things are best mended by a break.

  Edith Wharton

  Break

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.1543, Delphi Classics

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• The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

  Raymond Chandler

  Couple, Book, Reading

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.69, Grove Press

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• If I was traded to the Giants, I'd quit baseball

  Rocky Colavito

  Baseball, Giants, Ifs

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• When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

  Mike Royko

  Sports, Hero, Jordan

  Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2523, Agate Digital

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• I always feel pressure. If you don't feel nervous, that means you don't care about how you play. I care about how I perform. I've always said the day I'm not nervous playing is the day I quit.

  Tiger Woods

  Determination, Mean, Play

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• You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Jobs, Labels, Stylist

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• There's nothing like Opening Day. There's nothing like the start of a new season. I started playing baseball when I was seven years old and quit playing when I was 40, so it's kind of in my blood.

  George Brett

  Baseball, Blood, Years

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• As one woman told me, "When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy." This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks' notice, she woke up happy. At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn't quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she's still on the job, radiating happiness and love.

  Bernie Siegel

  Jobs, Work, Years

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• If the Japanese want to be taken seriously as world financial powers, they'd better quit using the same tailor as variety show chimps.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Taken

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.15, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Well, I have a message for the nameless , gutless whimperers out there. Quit whining. Unlike some other shows, we here at CROSSFIRE actually present both sides of the issue. ... Look, if you want namby-pamby one-sided arguments go to Fox.

  Paul Begala

  Liberal Media, Issues, Looks

  "How Should Sex be Discussed in America's Classrooms?; Should Cameras be Allowed in Blake Trial?". “CNN Crossfire”, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2002.

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• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Character, Healing

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

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• If there's a deadline, I work late. If not, I like to have normal hours, and get up early and work. When things are going well, I hate to quit. And then I'll work 'till exhausted.

  Dave Brubeck

  Hate, Up Early, Normal

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• If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.

  Laura Bush

  Husband, Home, White

  "Laura Bush on U.S. Political Divide". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. August 3, 2004.

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• There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

  Chris Cornell

  Keys, Moments, Wanted

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• I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

  Dave Grohl

  Ready, Felt

  Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.

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• When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.

  Loni Anderson

  Vanity, Issues, Weight

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