I’ll never forget the day I finally quit my 9-5.
It was one fo teh most liberating feelings of my life. For me, it wasn’t about escaping work. Quite the opposite, actually.
It was about escaping a daily routine that didn’t make me fulfilled.
All the extra hours hustling early mornings, evenings, weekends and even on my commute had finally paid off. My side hustle gave me the confidence to make the leap.
If you’re considering making that move, here are 20 quotes to help you quit your job .
May they give you the confidence to step into the unknown.
Quotes for Quitting Your Job
Work without love is slavery.
Mother Teresa
I have always hated employment and the associated dependence on someone else’s arbitrary opinion, particularly when much of what’s done inside large corporations violates my sense of ethics. So I have, accordingly, except for eight years, been self-employed. But, before that, for my last job, I wrote my resignation letter before starting the new position, locked it up in a drawer, and felt free while I was there.
Nassim Taleb
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
Marcus Aurelius
If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
Paulo Coelho
Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. 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. “Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.
Tim Ferriss
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home…it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.
Chuck Palahniuk
It’s worth remembering that for any change to happen in your life, you must be wrong about something. If you’re sitting there, miserable day after day, then that means you’re already wrong about something major in your life, and until you’re able to question yourself to find it, nothing will change.
Mark Manson
And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.
Randy Kosimar
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
John Le Carre
Don’t waste your life living someone else’s dream. Don’t try to emulate the people who came before you to the exclusion of everything else, contorting into a shape that doesn’t fit.
Tim Cook
Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
Jim Rohn
Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
Tim Ferriss
Work takes on new meaning when you feel you are pointed in the right direction. Otherwise, it’s just a job, and life is too short for that.
Tim Cook
I think the person who takes a job in order to live — that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.
Joseph Campbell
In every success story, you will find someone who has made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Muhammad Ali
I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
Jeff Bezos
At some point, most of us reach a place where we’re afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we’re already good at. This confines us and stifles us. We can be truly successful only at something we’re willing to fail at. If we’re unwilling to fail, then we’re unwilling to succeed.
Mark Manson
Don’t stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want — freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.
James Altucher
Parting Words
Quitting my job opened up a new world of possibilities.
I was able to work full time on my venture, and with the added inputs I was able to grow it. With more income came more freedom, and I was able to design a life of travel that reflects my values.
That decision lead me to Flâneur Life, and I’ve never since looked back.
Sometimes stepping into uncertainty is exactly what we need to grow. New opportunities await those who are daring enough.
Have any other quotes about quitting your job you’d add to the list? Drop a comment.
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Originally published November 1, 2020. The date of the last significant edit is reflected at the top of the post.
