Top 1200 Winners Never Quit Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Once you get to the plate, you have two options: You either quit, or you try to hit the ball.

I'd like to quit thinking of the present as some minor insignificant preamble to something else.

Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction.

Once a heroine is beyond a certain age, she has to graduate to mother's roles or quit.

If I ever lose a role because of my tattoos, I'll quit Hollywood and go to work at Costco.

If progressives were interested in mitigating inequality, they would support the dynamism of free markets to allow the merit of ideas, products and services to win the day rather than stifle companies and pick winners in the name of imagined 'progress.'

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled

Free-market capitalism doesn't pick economic winners and losers based on the president's economic nostalgia, and limited-government conservatism isn't marked a top-down ideological conformity strictly enforced by state media organs.

I quit school and it's not because I'm lazy. I'm just not the social type and campus life is crazy.

Since I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing.

I just quit in the third year of high school and started singing at amateur hours.

The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit.

I'd like to quit the supernatural roles and play just an interesting, down-to-earth person.

I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don't like winners; they don't like people who's blessed. So everybody's got a different 'they.'

As one woman told me, "When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy." This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks' notice, she woke up happy. At the end of the day, she noticed that everybody around her was happy, too- so she didn't quit after all. She decided to come to work happy instead. Two years later, she's still on the job, radiating happiness and love.

I wanted to quit acting and as soon as I decided that, the call for 'Velvet Buzzsaw' came through.

In Japan, after having lost World War II, the hierarchy that used to exist in the society, from the rich to the poor, has been flattened, especially by the winners, by Americans. As a Japanese artist debuting in America, I really had to bring that kind of theme into the work.

While I was doing the residency in Paris, I found out that I was chosen as one of the five winners of the Focus Features Africa First Program. All this happened less than a year after I made my first two short films.

Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal winners trained at Manchester's velodrome, the National Cycling Centre.

Many years ago I had two small children, and I wanted to be able to be home when they got home from school. And I didn't like the direction journalism was taking. I thought if I could write books, I could work at home and have the best of both worlds. I wrote my first mystery while still working full time, and it didn't sell, but the next one did sell, so I quit my job for the world of fiction. Scary, but I've never regretted it for a single day.

In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

The way I look at it, you've got to quit your TV series before they'll consider you in movies.

I quit when I was 52, and everybody was telling me that I was too young and I'd be bored - all of those things.

I won an amateur night, October 8th, 1985. I went to work the next day and quit my job.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

We had a lot of different personalities. Hoak was the straw boss. He just would not quit.

I sobered up and I got to thinking, girl, you ain't much fun since I quit drinking.

I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

Yeah, my very first teacher when I was 6 was a big influence, because it was so boring that I quit guitar.

My friends and family were also in tears with my decision to quit as they all loved me in Bidaai.'

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

As an actress, there were so many months, years even, when I didn't get work, when I wanted to quit.

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

I am a homebody and don't socialise. If it was left to me, I would also quit social media.

Many people have told me that I should quit, but I have not yet finished proving them wrong.

I don't smoke, drink alcohol well, or play games. But I watch dramas. It is hard to quit.

Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering 'Go on then, give me any year you like and I'll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.'

If riding were all blue ribbons and bright lights, I would have quit long ago.

Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject. You can't aim to be a household name. You just have to be successful.

Quit dwelling on other people's stories and make up some of your own.

I always quit at three when my kids come home from school so I feel pretty spoiled.

Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.

My father taught me that the easiest thing to do was to quit. He'd say, 'It doesn't take any talent to do that.'

If we quit Vietnam, tomorrow we'll be fighting in Hawaii, and next week we'll have to fight in San Francisco.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

I haven't thought of retirement yet, but when I stop enjoying the game or when injuries force me, I will quit.

God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

The common base of all the Semitic creeds, winners or losers, was the ever present idea of world-worthlessness. Their profound reaction from matter led them to preach bareness, renunciation, poverty; and the atmosphere of this invention stifled the minds of the desert pitilessly.

Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

I work every day 100 percent, but I assure you that I'll quit if my players don't follow me.

Fighting is like life. You can do everything to a tee. You can show up and fail. That's no reason to quit.

There's moments where things are harder than others, and there are obviously questions, but when it comes down to it, there is no quit in me.