I've always been a quitter. I quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up my paper route, turned my back on the church, stuffed the basketball team. I dropped out of college, sidestepped the army with a 4-F on the grounds of mental instability, went back to school, made a go of it, entered a Ph.D. program in nineteenth-century British literature, sat in the front row, took notes assiduously, bought a pair of horn-rims, and quit on the eve of my comprehensive exams. I got married, separated, divorced. Quit smoking, quit jogging, quit eating red meat. I quit jobs: digging graves, pumping gas, selling insurance, showing pornographic films in an art theater in Boston. When I was nineteen I made frantic love to a pinch-faced, sack-bosomed girl I'd known from high school. She got pregnant. I quit town. T.C. Boyle
About This Quote

The idea that you should quit when you "can't take it anymore" is probably not the best way to go about things. This can result in loss of money, loss of friends, and other major setbacks. When you see someone who is quitting, or who has quit, this will likely make you think that they are weak. However, what Nelson Mandela was saying is that the power to get up again should be something that people aspire to achieve.

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