26 Quotes for When You Feel Like Quitting
I’m about to pull my hair out.
Is the horrible coworker or boss putting you down? Customer getting on your nerves? Boring tasks or extreme stress at work? Not recognized for your hard work? It’s tough when you realize that the thing you spend most of your time doing is something you dread.
I don’t think it’s any relief to know that I’m not alone. Because most people hate their job, it makes a positive mindset towards work nearly impossible.
No matter how much it sucks right now, you can’t let the job win. You have to find something that motivates you to get through the tough days. Maybe it’s the money, maybe it’s seeing your impact on other people, or maybe it’s just biding your time until you land your dream job.
Today isn’t the day you quit.
Later you can laugh about it, and how it, at the least, strengthened your mental resilience.
If you’re feeling stuck in a job you hate, here are some quotes to keep you going for another day:
- “Quitting is easy. The hard part is holding on when quitting isn’t an option anymore.” — J.K. Rowling
- “I have failed again and again throughout my life. That’s why I’ve been successful.” — Michael Jordan
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” — Jimmy Dean
- “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” — Napoleon Hill
- “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” — Haruki Murakami
- “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph! What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on its goods.” — Thomas Paine
- “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein
- “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” — John Wooden
- “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn
- “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” — Dalai Lama XIV
- “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” -Winston Churchill
- “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
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” — Nelson Mandela
- “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher
- “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
- “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” — Napoleon Hill
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” — Walt Disney
- “There is no substitute for hard work.” — Thomas Edison
- “So what if it’s hard? It’s supposed to be hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it. Hard is what makes it great.” — Tom Hanks
- “I think if you live long enough, you realize that success doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with achieving what you set out to achieve. It’s more about becoming the person you were meant to be.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” — Winston Churchill
- “Start with one step, just one. And then take the next one and keep going that way.” — Melody Beattie
- “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” — Jonathan Winters
- “Resilience is very different. It’s what we have after we’ve hit bottom. We’re knocked down, and then we get back up again and keep going. It’s ‘I will never give up.’” — Elizabeth Smart
- “The ability to persevere is important not just for athletes or soldiers, but for all of us in our day-to-day lives.” — Sheryl Sandberg
- “So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
That being said, I know you’re capable of so much more. Trust me, just stick with it a little longer, embrace the suck.
The reward for making it through the race will be worth it.
