Edwin Louis Cole
Author, Speaker
"Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit."
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Never Quit
160 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"I never quit until I get what I want."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"I could never quite accustom myself to absinthe, but it suits my style so well"
Mary Todd Lincoln
First Lady, Socialite
"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."
Harold Washington
Politician
"Affirmative action works but we're going to need to muster all our political resources if we are to keep it in place."
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"One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome."
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"A [person] who Never quits is never defeated."
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"Winners never quit, quitters never win."
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"If you never quit, youll never fail."
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"He [Thelonious Monk] played each note as though astonished by the previous one, as though every touch of his fingers on the keyboard was correcting an error and this touch in turn became an error to be corrected and so the tune never quite ended up the way it was meant to."
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"We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude."
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"It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward."
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"Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work."
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"When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins."
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"With the war and everything that's going on, unless you're Susan Sarandon, the best route is to keep your mouth shut. For me it is, anyway!"
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"A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy."
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"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."
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"I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying."
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"As an actor, I feel that my work makes me very vulnerable. I have to be emotionally available to serve the scene I'm doing. You never quite know where your emotions will take you."
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"Riding is a complicated joy. You learn something each time. It is never quite the same, and you never know it all."
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"There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed."
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"I haven't written anything yet that makes me think, This is it! and I don't imagine I ever will. I don't know how it is with you, but when I finish something, even when I'm pleased with the results, it never quite matches the shimmering vision that was out ahead of me as I wrote."
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"I can never quite trust anybody anymore."
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"Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole."
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"I'm good with dialect. Some actors do it immediately; other actors never quite get it. It's something I've always really enjoyed and something I've always been pretty fast with."
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