Quitting Quotes · Page 27

You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not…

— Martin Luther

When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe…

— George Carlin

My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was…

— Robert Clark

God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

— T. D. Jakes

“Just imagine what would have happened if Michael Jordan quit after getting cut from his High School Basketball team?”

— John A. Passaro

I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar.

— Christine Lahti

When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something…

— Danger Mouse

I cheerfully quit from life as if it were an inn, not a home; for Nature has given us a hostelry in…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through…

— Robert Redford

When you're in a band with three writers, three great writers, you only get one third of the writer thing. So that's…

— Stevie Nicks

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.…

— Cheryl Strayed

I've been trying to quit smoking weed and it's really hard quitting pot. It was actually easier to become a vegetarian because…

— Brian Posehn

I quit painting very early. I just jumped ship. In a way, the window is the tragic possibility - you can jump…

— Tehching Hsieh

What happened was that none of that [Emmy nomination] really happened. Numbers flew under the radar, and so around the fourth season,…

— David Krumholtz

Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true…

— Oswald Chambers

Other actors like to rehearse on film-they like 30 or 40 takes. When you get an actor like that, it becomes difficult…

— Richard Widmark

The difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is not in the event itself but how you think about it and what…

— Michael Josephson

Embrace failure. Never never quit. Get very comfortable with that uneasy feeling of going against the grain and trying something new. It…

— Terry Crews

I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I…

— Anonymous

Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit…

— Sue Grafton

Unfortunately, once I did learn to smoke, I couldn't stop. I escalated to two packs a day very quickly, and stayed that…

— Kirk Douglas

Context is everything. Dress me up and see. I'm a carnival barker, an auctioneer, a downtown performance artist, a speaker in tongues,…

— Jonathan Lethem

Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do…

— Ernest Hemingway

When I graduated from college, I went straight to work for a federal contractor, a desk job, and they were great to…

— Maggie Stiefvater

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do…

— Ken Venturi

Getting fired,’ Tyler says, ‘is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.

— Doris Lessing

I remember the actor Dale Robertson said he quit acting when he got tired of having to hold his stomach in. I…

— Ted Shackelford

You will train always for a hundred terrific reasons. Quit and it will be for no good reason at all.

— Dave Draper

Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you…

— Lynn Johnston

I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet.…

— Colonel Sanders

Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

— Michel de Montaigne

You can not go through life quitting everything. If you are going to achieve anything,you have got to stick with something.

— Anonymous

I think we should keep voting, I think we should keep supporting things that we believe in. I don't think we ought…

— Charlie Daniels

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

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what…

— George Carlin

Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place.

— Harold Washington

The man who wins is the man who hangs on just five minutes longer after everyone else has quit.

— Douglas Southall Freeman

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted…

— Bruce Dickinson

I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I…

— Stephanie Mills