Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"You cannot fail unless you quit."
Quitting quotes
Quitting
423 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Thomas A. Edison
Inventor
"The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start."
Jay Adams
Skateboarder
"You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding."
Edwin Louis Cole
Author, Speaker
"Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit."
Chris Gardner
Entrepreneur
"It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit."
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"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter."
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"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 so I quit."
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"I never quit until I get what I want."
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"Become one of the rare people who don't know how to quit."
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"You will win if you don't quit"
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"Life isn’t fair. It never will be. Quit trying to make it fair. You don’t need it to be fair. Go make life unfair to your advantages."
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"Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself."
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"If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father."
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"It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't."
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"Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is."
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"The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit."
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"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."
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"Quit counting time and start making time count"
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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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"I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.'"
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"You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit."
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"A [person] who Never quits is never defeated."
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"No matter what's going on in our lives, the victory is in refusing to quit."
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"There is no quit in me."
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"Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours."
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