Quotes and Sayings about Quitting
"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity."
- Marlon Brando
(Related: Life, Acting, Expression, Maturity, Quitting)
"Quitting doesn't enter my mind."
- Jimmy Buffett
(Related: Mind, Quitting)
"One day I promised God that if he would give me my voice back I would never smoke again. I got three octaves back after quitting."
- Mariah Carey
(Related: God, Day, Quitting, Voice)
"I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado."
- Mary Cheney
(Related: Home, Job, Office, Quitting)
"Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did."
- Alex Chilton
(Related: Drugs, Liquor, Pretty, Quitting, Years)
"I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever."
- Barbara Cook
(Related: Thought, Desire, Quitting)
"I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up."
- Dane Cook
(Related: Business, Giving, Open, Quitting, Today)
"I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting."
- Evan Dando
(Related: Music, Fun, Play, Quitting)
"Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin."
- Andy Hertzfeld
(Related: Work, Actions, Office, Project, Quitting, Thinking)
"It's true that this year, following my accident in the pre-season, I kind of lost morale and I felt like quitting at the end of this year. But today I can say that I want to be a professional bike rider in the year 2003 as well."
- Laurent Jalabert
(Related: Accident, End, Quitting, Today, Want)
"As long as I'm having fun, I'm not quitting."
- Sue Johanson
(Related: Fun, Quitting)
"I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase."
- Sally Kirkland
(Related: Quitting)
"I'm more proud of quitting smoking than of anything else I've done in my life, including winning an Oscar."
- Christine Lahti
(Related: Life, Winning, Quitting, Smoking)
"I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters."
- Art Linkletter
(Related: Now, Quitting, Today)
"For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting."
- Meat Loaf
(Related: Love, Work, Business, Thought, Entertainment, Nothing, Past, Quitting, Years)
"Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."
- Douglas MacArthur
(Related: Age, Soul, Body, Quitting)
"We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week."
- Willie Nelson
(Related: Quitting, Trying, Word)
"If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war."
- Ernie Pyle
(Related: War, Quitting)
"Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
(Related: Belief, Giving, Quitting)
"It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin."
- Elliott Smith
(Related: Quitting, Right)
"If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner; or by momentarily resigning the game; or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him."
- Howard Staunton
(Related: Anger, Decision, Quitting, Umpire)
"Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have."
- John Tesh
(Related: Faith, Heart, Being, Fortune, Job, Quitting, Risk)
"It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying."
- Christy Turlington
(Related: Dying, Quitting, Smoking)