94 Quitting Your Job Quotes

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Famous Quitting Your Job Quotes

You can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling. — Lissa Rankin

I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage. — Glennon Melton

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. - Zig Ziglar

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. — Zig Ziglar

"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives." — Chuck Palahniuk

They trap you in the toxic narrative that quitting is a weakness, an easy way out or, worse yet, that quitting is failure. I assure you – quitting is for winners and quitting is a skill. — Steven Bartlett

You retire by saving up enough money, becoming a monk, or by finding work that feels like play to you. — Naval Ravikant

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose. — J.A. Konrath

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. - Vince Lombardi

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. — Vince Lombardi

I wish I knew how to quit you. — Annie Proulx

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one. — Oscar Wilde

If your career is a bad boyfriend, it is healthy to remember you can always leave and go sleep with somebody else. — Amy Poehler

You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life. — Stephen Covey

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!! - Michael Jordan

If you quit ONCE it becomes a habit.Never quit!!! — Michael Jordan

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired, and get paid just enough money not to quit. — George Carlin

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work. — Thomas Bernhard

Short Quitting Your Job Quotes

  • How am I to know what I can achieve if I quit? — Jason Bishop
  • Never quit. Never give up. — Gabby Douglas
  • You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die. — Gurbaksh Chahal
  • If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job. — Leo Tolstoy
  • You can go from job to career to calling – all without changing your occupation. — Angela Duckworth
  • Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up sex for old age. — Warren Buffett
  • It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it. — John Steinbeck
  • The temporary satisfaction of quitting is outweighed by the eternal suffering of being a nobody. — Andrew Tate
  • It's always too early to quit. — Norman Vincent Peale
  • If being a staff in that organization causes you to stain your garment of holiness then resign. — Enoch Adeboye

Quitting Your Job Image Quotes

Quit your job. Buy a ticket. Get a tan. Fall in love. Never return. - Spencer Antle quote

Quit your job. Buy a ticket. Get a tan. Fall in love. Never return. — Spencer Antle

Quitting your job quote In every job that must be done there is an element of fun.
In every job that must be done there is an element of fun.

Not Quitting Your Job Quotes

Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have. — John Tesh

I'm not telling anyone, 'Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.' — Hill Harper

You can still have chemistry on screen without getting on with the person. But it just makes your job a lot easier if you don't have to gird your loins, if that's not quite the right phrase, every time you're going to do a scene with that person. — Hugh Dancy

Quitting your job quote If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit.
If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit.

I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished... it is not as if you can look back and think: ah... I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be. — Sayings

Inspirational Quotes

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie

One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly - Paulo Coelho

Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho

Quitting your job quote The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.
The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. — Helen Keller

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

Quitting your job quote Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.

If God is for us, who can be against us? — Paul the Apostle

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker

Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle

Positive Quotes

I learned that everybody is not your friend. You have to watch who you associate with and surround yourself with positive things and people who want to do something positive. — Gucci Mane

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively. — Bob Marley

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. — Willie Nelson

Quitting your job quote Before you quit remember why you started.
Before you quit remember why you started.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Moving Forward In A Positive Direction - Colin StuckertAlbert Einstein

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life. — Joel Osteen

Quitting your job quote If you get tired, learn to rest, not quit.
If you get tired, learn to rest, not quit.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts. — Robert H. Schuller

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray. — Rumi

If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you. — Paramahansa Yogananda

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More Quitting Your Job Quotes

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan. — Bill Rancic

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. — Kevin Systrom

You've got one life, live it. Follow your dreams, quit your job, drop out of school, tell your boyfriend that he's lousy and walk out the door. This is your time. This is your life. You know what? Dream as big as you want to, its the cheapest thing you'll ever do. — Jared Leto

Quitting your job quote When you find yourself in a hole, QUIT DIGGING.
When you find yourself in a hole, QUIT DIGGING.

Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares. — Mike Tyson

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100 percent from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement. — Kevin Systrom

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way. — Tim Ferriss

Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.… If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually,’ just do it and correct course along the way. — Blake Mycoskie

When you see your body wasted away through sickness, do not murmur against God, but say: 'The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord' (Job 1:21). You are accustomed to look upon your body as upon your own inalienable property, but that is quite wrong, because your body is God's edifice. — John of Kronstadt

Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work? — Richard Branson

Real Dreams don't require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up. — Barbara Sher

Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it. — Jim Carrey

If You Don’t Claim Your Humanity, You Will Become A Statistic. — Chuck Palahniuk

I've found that when you roll up your sleeves and join people in their daily work, they tend to open up quite a bit and let you know what they really think about the issues facing our country and what kind of job they think the government is doing. — Bob Beauprez

You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience. — Bruce Springsteen

Someday is a dis-ease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. — Tim Ferriss

I suppose what you're doing as a painter is making a record of your trip through life. I can't think of any job that is quite as satisfactory as doing a painting. — Robert Genn

Being sad and going out on terrible dates and having horrible breakups and then having a shitty job and then quitting the shitty job and then wondering if you shouldn't have quit the shitty job and then getting a new shitty job that you get fired off of after six weeks, it's all so good for your writing. — Annie Baker

If you were a single mom, there's no way to support yourself and your kids by working in a hair salon. It's about a woman who decides to go and do what was considered a man's job, but was treated quite horribly for it and decides she has to fight for her rights when everyone thinks she should just shut up and take it. — Charlize Theron

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. — Tim Ferriss

Don't quit your day jobs, boys, but always keep your sense of humor. — Kimberly Guilfoyle

Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go. — Kurt Vonnegut

Every good writer or filmmaker has something eating at them, right? That they can't quite get off their back . And so your job is to make your audience care about your obsessions. — Bruce Springsteen

If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it. — Bindu

Follow your dreams, quit your job — Jared Leto

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job. — Jennifer Weiner

Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you don’t agree with something. It’s not a complaint, in other words, but a positive choice, and not a stop in one’s journey, but a step in a better direction. Quitting-whether a job or a habit-means taking a turn so as to be sure you’re still moving in the direction of your dreams. — Pico Iyer

I've learned one thing, and that's to quit worrying about stupid things. You have four years to be irresponsible here, relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember the time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So stay out late. Go out with your friends on a Tuesday when you have a paper due on Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does... — Tom Petty

Quitting a job can be like an exorcism where you cast out a demon. The demon is the foreign spirit who occupies you through your occupation. — Bryant H. McGill

It's very important to like the people you work with. Otherwise, your job is going to be quite miserable. — Elon Musk

Opposition work is not without its dangers. But if you've chosen a job like that for yourself, you then subsequently shouldn't spend your time every second thinking, oh my God, what might happen to me? Oh my God, what might happen to me? Your colleagues include quite a large number of war correspondents. Their job is not the least dangerous in the world, either. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

People should quit their jobs, move to Oklahoma, move in with 34 people, pay $100 a month in rent and start a band or start painting. That way you'll feel like you have a purpose if you lose your mind, and you'll have some fun on the way. — Josh Jones

When you first quit your regular job and you become a full-time writer, you are paralyzed with free time. You have so much free time. When you are at home, you have a guitar. There's a cat. You got to find ways to create an environment when writing is like going to work. Be efficient with the hours you put into the book. So I go there the same time, every day - like 7:30 am - and I leave around 2 pm, or longer, if I have a deadline. — Matt de la Pena

I help relationships come to an end or help them go to the next level. It can be boyfriend or girlfriend, or if you want to quit your job. — Shannen Doherty

Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be whole, as many religious tranditions teach, is to make manifest a unique face of God in the world. We don't want to be irresponsible, yet for every accountant who deserts his family and sails for Tahiti, ten American men have heart attacks at their desks, after hours. — Mary Rose O'Reilley

Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't want to be caught ... ashamed of anything. And because generally someone who has bipolar doesn't have just bipolar, they have bipolar, and they have a life and a job and a kid and a hat and parents, so its not your overriding identity, it's just something that you have, but not the only thing - even if it's quite a big thing. — Carrie Fisher

You can try your passion for a while and see if it works and if it doesn't, at least you tried. I think that's why I quit my job and went back to acting. I said this is what I'm going to dedicate my life to doing because I didn't want to look up and say, "Man I wish I would have been an actor. I wish I would have tried." — Jay Ellis

Directing takes a good chunk of your life out. It's a very hard thing. As an actor, you go in for a couple of months and do your job, and then you move onto another one. As a director, it's with you for quite some time and you're responsible for the entire thing, whether the results are good or bad, or whether people throw darts at you or put you on a pedestal. — Billy Bob Thornton

It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours. — Natalie MacMaster

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