Top 655 Quit Quotes

When it comes to rugby, I’m a Welshman through and through. I’m a huge fan; I’ve played rugby since I was seven. Unfortunately, I had to quit when I went to drama school because it doesn’t really go hand in had with being an actor.

You have to be able to toss the thing out. You can’t fall in love with your characters, and you have to know when to fight – and when to quit.

I think what Donald Trump needs to do is quit. I think he needs to stop being the Republican nominee.

If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I’m over-the-hill or I’m ready to quit or whatever.

The one thing you’ve gotta do is that you need to always do the best you can do, no matter what the given situation, no matter what comes up against you. You do the best you can do, and you never give up. Never quit.

I’ve not thought about the Stone Roses since we quit. How many LPs do I have to make to stop people talking about it?

A singer can quit once he or she has made ten great songs; a director can finish once he or she has made five amazing films; a writer just needs to write three great books.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn’t get work, when I wanted to quit.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

A lot of people say I’d miss show business if I quit. I’d miss some of it. Now it’s the only life I know.

We can’t control it, and we’ve basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

It occurred to me that actors are selfish, and they think that the world revolves around them. For one year, I quit, and I went to an ashram in Bihar and went to Himalayas backpacking.

You don’t quit just because the odds are against you.

If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you’re weak or that you’re a failure because you can’t seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results.

I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.

If you eat the same cereal every day it’s gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.

Writing is not work. In fact, there’s nothing better. Writing is something that if the music business went completely away tomorrow – radio stations quit existing and music quit being popular and it was old hat – I would still write songs.

We don’t woo our wives with clubs. We don’t leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don’t know. We’ve outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

When I was 23, I went backpacking around Australia for three months. I saved up a few grand, quit my job and flew to Sydney, then went to Melbourne and up the East Coast, which was an incredible experience. I remember running out of money and getting my mum to send me a few hundred quid, which helped me get by.

We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty – and instead acknowledge that there’s not quite enough water to go around.

The day you stop enjoying something is the day you should quit, if you can afford to.

I quit music and decided I was going to work a 9-to-5 job in advertising… which in New York City is more like, 8-to-7.

I don’t come from an artistic family, so I didn’t know what theater was. I was working on Wall Street in the ’90s, and I went to see ‘Appointment With a High-Wire Lady’ at Ensemble Studio Theatre, and it affected me so deeply. It changed everything I thought about the arts. I quit banking and became an actor.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: ‘I will be known as ‘Dallas’ starring Larry Hagman and the cast.’ And at this point in my career – I was in my mid to late 30s – I thought, ‘Now is the time when it’s hottest for me to go out and establish my thing.’

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

The entire idea of building a series of systems in a business is simply this – to create the tools that allow you, as a business owner, to increase productivity and get the job done. The idea behind these systems, of course, is to quit needing your judgement or input in every area of the business.

Sometimes success means having the right idea in the right place at the right time. Other times, it’s about not being afraid to quit and move onto something new.

I picked Tony Bellew because he is the man that takes the biggest challenges. He is not the usual type of fighter that will come, see how hard it is, and quit. He will come to fight until the end. These are the kind of fights that the world wants to see.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

All the times they put tag titles on me, Intercontinental titles on me, or the world title on me, the only time I couldn’t defend the title was when I had to forfeit the belt when I quit WCW and retired from wrestling forever.

I quit ‘Qubool Hai’ at the right time. When ‘Alone’ was offered to me, I was learning production and direction. I don’t think not being seen on TV for more than a year will affect my popularity or ‘Alone.’

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.

Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant’s book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing.

I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.

To say ‘I quit’ brings a lot of criticism, but to get disqualified and say the ref was unfair and harsh, in denial – fans will jump on that.

It’s always too early to quit.

I had to quit a ‘real job’ to start my first company.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.

I’ve never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day.

It’s like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn’t be a boxer, so I quit.

I decided to quit ‘Survivor: All-Stars’ in order to be closer to my mother, who ended up passing away from breast cancer seven days after I returned home.

I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn’t do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you’re done, don’t make your hobby your job.

I dropped out of high school three days into my senior year because I hated it because New York City public school is a mess. I certainly wasn’t one for sitting in a classroom. Then I went off to college to North Carolina School of the Arts, then quit that after two years.

It wasn’t very satisfying playing the big arenas, but it was good as far as a paycheck. But the sound was terrible, especially in hockey arenas – the sound would go on for 30 seconds after we quit playing.

You’re always better off if you quit smoking; it’s never too late.

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

If you’ve never quit anything, you really ought to try. And if at first you don’t succeed, try again.

Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’

Either people are going to start getting us, or they’re not. And if they’re not, I want them to quit wasting my time. I just want people to really get into the band.

Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.

I worked for this company that repossessed cars. Sure enough, the day after I quit, they repossessed my car, but that would probably be my strangest job to date. You have to work your way up to become a hardcore repo man.

I’m not here to tell you to take risks and quit your job and travel the world. No, don’t do that if it doesn’t make you feel comfortable and excited.