Quitting Quotes - Page 6

• If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Father, Never Quit, Jokes

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• I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

  Sally Kirkland

  Writing, Ideas, Insecurity

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• Training has been such a huge part of my life and career I hope to keep going with it.

  David Prowse

  Careers, Training, Never Quit

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• I always try to keep my constituents as up-to-date as possible with what's going on here in Washington.

  Steve Israel

  Trying, Never Quit, Constituents

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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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• 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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• Right now, I have some big dreams. But at the same time, if I get annoyed and harassed by the media, I'll just quit. I don't care. We're set for life. I have quite a temper.

  Anna Benson

  Dream, Media, Annoyed

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• There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.

  Tammy Faye Bakker

  Thinking, Shopping, Justice

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• I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit.

  Sue Wicks

  Respect, Team, Believe

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• The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.

  Bennett Madison

  Summer, Mother, Beach

  Bennett Madison (2013). “September Girls”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• If you never quit, youll never fail.

  Robert Kennedy

  Never Quit, Failing, Ifs

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• Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

  Edwin Louis Cole

  World, Failing, There Is No I In Team

  Edwin Louis Cole (1993). “Real Man”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The day someone quits school he is condemning himself to a future of poverty.

  Jaime Escalante

  School, Poverty, Condemning

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

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• I quit drugs before I quit drinking because drugs were taking their toll on me. I was sick of the headaches and the puking and the shitting blood. I figured I'd stop everything but alcohol, but then I overcompensated with drinking. Now I'm totally clean because I don't choose to do either.

  Lars Frederiksen

  Drinking, Blood, Sick

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• I enjoyed being at Jurassic Park, with Jeff Goldblum and Sir Richard Attenborough. It's funny, because Steven Spielberg would actually operate the camera sometimes. He'd consider the camera, and he'd be kind of looking at me. He actually shot a few of the things that I'm in, in that lab, with that long ash dangling off that cigarette. Hogging that fake cigarette. Because I had quit smoking, and he wanted to make sure I didn't go back, so he got me the worst-tasting fake cigarettes ever.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Long, Jurassic Park, Fake

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• You make a mistake, you keep going.

  Linda Gray

  Mistake, Never Quit, Keep Going

  "Larry Hagman and Linda Gray Share Their Memories of 'Dallas'". "The Larry King Live Show", transcripts.cnn.com. June 20, 2000.

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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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• We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.

  Emma Anderson

  Thinking, Bored, Done

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• But in the long run we're not going to be able to keep out of state trash away from Pennsylvania.

  Ed Rendell

  Running, Long, Pennsylvania

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• The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

  Michael Chabon

  Book, Fire, Rereading

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• We're going to make every effort to keep the Saints as Louisiana's team.

  Paul Tagliabue

  Teamwork, Effort, Saint

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• I took an oath to protect the people of Arizona, and that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to keep pushing in that direction.

  Jan Brewer

  People, Never Quit, Arizona

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• Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.

  Aynsley Dunbar

  Long, Bars, Never Quit

  Interview with Rick Mattingly, www.moderndrummer.com. May 1982.

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• Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.

  Tim McGraw

  Years, Games, Albums

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• You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.

  Cyril Clarke

  Believe, Aggravation, People

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