28 Quotes On What Quiet Quitting Is (Really) All About

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change....I’m changing the things I cannot accept.
Angela Davis

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.
Dolores Huerta

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
William Faulkner

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
Henry David Thoreau

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.
Samuel Gompers

Quitting is not losing confidence, it's realizing that there are more valuable ways you can spend your time.
Osayi Osar-Emokpae

Quiet quitting isn’t just about quitting your job, it’s a step toward quitting on life.
Arianna Huffington

Quiet quitting also makes it seem like we only have 2 choices — either care about our work and burn out or do the bare minimum to get by.
Lisa Bobyak

Quiet quitting isn't laziness. Doing the bare minimum is a common response to bullshit jobs, abusive bosses, and low pay. When they don't feel cared about, people eventually stop caring. If you want them to go the extra mile, start with meaningful work, respect, and fair pay.
Adam Grant

Quitting isn't only about leaving the arena; it’s also about staying in the arena but deciding not to fight.
Shahenshah Hafeez Khan

Quitting is not a problem; not knowing when or why to quit and being a quitter is the problem.
Kayambila Mpulamasaka

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Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.
Richie Norton

Quitting is letting go of things (or people) that are sucking the life out of you so you can do more things that will bring you strength.
Osayi Osar-Emokpae

When quitting is done correctly, it isn't giving up - it's making room for something better.
Adam Smith

If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
Paulo Coelho

There are far better things ahead than we ever leave behind.
C.S. Lewis

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Leonardo da Vinci

Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.
Kathryn L. Nelson

There's a lot of beauty in quiet strength.
Debbie Tung

I learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.
Doug Cooper

The time to quit is before you wish you had.
Kimberly K. Jones