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    “If quitting is a possibility, everyone will pick that—it’s the easiest one. Who wouldn’t pick not running at 5:00 a.m. over running at 5:00 a.m.? If quitting is an option, you’ll never finish anything hard. The only way an imperfect mind can be forced to achieve is by removing all of its other options. To me, the heart of all successful human interactions is we look at each other and we know we’re about to attempt something that is difficult/impossible, and we both vow to die before we quit.”

    Will Smith, Will (Page 237)

      “No one is perfect. We all have bad days. It’s okay to feel a little discouraged. But to give up? To not even try? That is criminal. ‘Disgraceful,’ Marcus Aurelius would say, ‘for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong.’ All of us have fallen short in the last year…and the years before that. We broke our resolutions. We made the same mistakes again and again. We were ‘jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances,’ as Marcus said. But now it’s time to pick ourselves up and try again. We have to keep going. We can’t give up. Because the alternative is unthinkable.”

      Ryan Holiday, Daily Stoic Blog

      Vince Lombardi Quote on How Winners Never Quit—And Why I Disagree

        “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” ~ Vince Lombardi

        Beyond the Quote (70/365)

        I disagree.  In fact, I believe that winners actually quit more than those who lose.  The difference is that they know what to quit, when to quit, how to quit, and have the courage and discipline to do so.  Of course, Lombardi is likely referring to the idea that winners never quit in pursuit of their primary goal(s) in life and those who do quit in pursuit of their primary goal(s) will never win at them—this might be obvious.

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          “Rest but never quit. Even the sun has a sinking spell each evening. But it always rises the next morning. At sunrise, every soul is born again.” ~ Author Unknown

          Don’t Quit

            When things go wrong as they sometimes will,

            When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,

            When the funds are low and the debts are high

            And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

            When care is pressing you down a bit,

            Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

            Life is queer with its twists and turns,

            As every one of us sometimes learns,

            And many a failure turns about

            When he might have won had he stuck it out;

            Don’t give up though the pace seems slow–

            You may succeed with another blow,

            Success is failure turned inside out–

            The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

            And you never can tell how close you are,

            It may be near when it seems so far;

            So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit–

            It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.

             

            ~ Edgar A. Guest

              “One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.” ~ Napoleon Hill

                “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~ Conrad Hilton

                  “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” ~ Muhammad Ali

                    “The difference in winning and losing is most often… not quitting.” ~ Walt Disney

                      “The quickest way to reach the point of success is to follow a straight line that carves through failure.” ~ Josh Traeger

                        “What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” ~ Alexander Graham Bell

                          “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.” ~ Napoleon Hill

                            “Perseverance is a great element of success; if you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

                              “By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.” ~ Christopher Columbus