Quotes About Quitting

Simple: If you can't make it through the Dip, don't start.

The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers. Am

Tennis has a Dip. The difference between a mediocre club player and a regional champion isn't inborn talent—it's the ability to push through the moments where it's just easier to quit. Politics has a Dip as well—it's way more fun to win an election than to lose one, and the entire process is built around many people starting while most people quit.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organisations. Reactive quitting and serial quitting are the bane of those that strive (and fail) to get what they want.

Quitting is better than coping because quitting frees you up to excel at something else. "Never

Most of the time, we deal with the obstacles by persevering. Sometimes we get discouraged and turn to inspirational writing, like stuff from Vince Lombardi: "Quitters never win and winners never quit." Bad advice. Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.

Average feels safe, but it's not. It's invisible. It's the last choice—the path of least resistance. The temptation to be average is just another kind of quitting…the kind to be avoided. You deserve better than average.

It's easier to be mediocre than it is to confront reality and quit. Quitting is difficult. Quitting requires you to acknowledge that you're never going to be #1 in the world. At least not at this. So it's easier just to put it off, not admit it, settle for mediocre. What a waste.

Quitting when you're in the dip is a bad idea. If the journey you started was worth doing, then quitting when you hit the dip just wastes the time you've already invested.

But wait, that's not enough. Not only do you need to find a Dip that you can conquer but you also need to quit all the Cul-de-Sacs that you're currently idling your way through. You must quit the projects and investments and endeavors that don't offer you the same opportunity. It's difficult, but it's vitally important.

Quitting creates scarcity; scarcity creates value.

Quit when you'll be mediocre, when the returns aren't worth the investment, when you no longer think you'll enjoy the ends. Stick when the dip is the obstacle that creates scarcity, when you're simply bridging the gap between beginner's luck and mastery.

To avoid this state of war (wherein there is no appeal but to Heaven, and wherein every the least difference is apt to end, where there is no authority to decide between the contenders) is one great reason of men's putting themselves into society, and quitting the state of nature:

I wish I could say I wasn't proud of it-I know I wouldn't be proud of it when I quit being a temporary psychopath, but it wasn't so easy to stop enjoying it, either.

After quitting radio I was able to live on the money I saved on aspirin.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Magnus," I say more gently. "Listen. There's no point doing this. Don't marry me just to prove you're not a quitter. Because you will quit, sooner or later. Whatever your intentions are. It'll happen." "Rubbish," he says fiercely. "You will. You don't love me enough for the long haul.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Q: How did the pirate stop smoking? A: He used the patch.

There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.

Giving up smoking is easy… I've done it hundreds of times

I quit the Knicks, so I know what quitting is. I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day, and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision, and I quit.

In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.