QUITTING QUOTES
quotations about quitting
The first secret to not quitting is to focus only on the first step. Not beyond. Don't try to find the finish line. Do not look at the big picture. Focus only on one step at a time. After the first step, concentrate on the second step. Don't look beyond that. Focus on one move only, not the whole board. For beginners, one move is manageable. The whole board is not. Staring at the whole board builds mounds of pressure strong enough to make you crack.
GINO ARCARO
Soul of a Lifter
Never give in -- never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
speech at Harrow School in Harrow, England, October 29, 1941
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
VINCE LOMBARDI
Coaching for Teamwork
Quitting is not giving up, it's choosing to focus your attention on something more important. Quitting is not losing confidence, it's realizing that there are more valuable ways you can spend your time. Quitting is not making excuses, it's learning to be more productive, efficient and effective instead. Quitting is letting go of things (or people) that are sucking the life out of you so you can do more things that will bring you strength.
OSAYI EMOKPAE LASISI
Impossible Is Stupid
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR
attributed, Weekly World News, November 21, 2005
Giving up on your goal because of one setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got one flat.
ANONYMOUS
Cowards never start. The weak never finish. Winners never quit.
ANONYMOUS
Defeat doesn't finish a man -- quit does.
RICHARD NIXON
note written July 1969
Question: What is the easiest thing in the world to do? Answer: To quit! Quitting takes no effort, no time, and no thought. And quitting is cheap! It won't cost you a dime. All you have to do is simply stop what you're doing.
MICHAEL YOUSSEF
You Want Me to Do What?
Some quit due to slow progress, never grasping the fact that slow progress ... is still progress.
ANONYMOUS
If you quit on the process, you are quitting on the result.
IDOWU KOYENIKAN
Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
The difference in winning and losing is most often ... not quitting.
WALT DISNEY
attributed, Motivational Quotes
Quitting is a healthy, adaptive response when a goal can't be reached or what appeared to be a life path turns out to be a blind alley or when life otherwise throws you a curve ball. Simply putting quitting on the table--seeing it as a possible plan of action--is a helpful corrective to the tunnel vision persistence often creates and a necessary first step to changing your perspective.
PEG STREEP & ALAN BERNSTEIN
Quitting: Why We Fear It and Why We shouldn't in Life, Love, and Work
The world ... is full of such "seekers", people who are restless and confused, who do not want to work. Seekers do not respect the work ethics on which society is founded and sustained. They want easy cures and miracles. THey want instant solutions to all their problems. They do not think things through and they tend toward fanatacism. They are quitters, always quitting their jobs, their relationships, their homes, and their ideas. They are arrogant people who think that they know more than their fathers and mothers, and often judge the previous generations rather than themselves. They are people who complicate issues to make life a mystery and myth. They have plenty of information but lack understanding.
TOYIN FALOLA & JAMAINE ABIDOGUN
Education, Creativity, and Economic Empowerment in Africa
There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Cities of the Plain
You humans are such quitters always dying all over the place.
C. J. NICOLSON
The Mirror of Darkness: Thane Amulet Tales Book Three
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
MUHAMMAD ALI
attributed, Ignite the Fire Within
It's always too early to quit.
ANONYMOUS
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
VINCE LOMBARDI
attributed, Motivation Lombardi Style
The best cure for the habit of quitting is to not start the habit it in the first place.
ADRIAN COX & MARV COX
Motivation, Money and Matrimony