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Lara Stone Model
Quitting

"With this job, always traveling on the plane and everything, I thought it would be really difficult to quit drinking on my own because you're always in situations where it's acceptable to have drinks. So I decided right after a show that I was going to go into treatment. I Googled a bunch of places, and I found this place that I went to in Cape Town, South Africa, called Stepping Stones. I stayed there for a month. It was really difficult-lots of talking and crying."

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Hamilton Jordan Political Advisor
Quitting

"If, after the election, you find a Cy Vance as Secretary of State and a Zbigniew Brzezinski as head of National Security, then I would say we failed. And I'd quit."

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Quitting

"If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit."

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Joyce Meyer Author, Speaker
Quitting

"We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying."

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Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter
Quitting

"My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon."

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Mercury Morris Football Player
Quitting

"I had had enough and I quit, and there is a distinction…You retire when the game has had enough of you. You quit when you have had enough of the game."

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