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Leave Quotes

On staying too long, and knowing when to go.

This leave quotes collection covers everything from professionals reluctant to give up a posting to being politely asked to step down after years of service. See our Go quotes for more on moving forward.

With so much at stake maybe I'll just leave now.

Quotes by Robert B. Parker

This acting is going to leave my stain. Not just my mark, because you can wipe a mark off. But a stain: it's going to take a whole lot to get that out, and that's how I'm going to leave...

Quotes by RJ Cyler

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

Quotes by Rickie Lee Jones

Sexuality and sensuality are completely different things. Sensuality is something that you're born with. But sexuality is something I leave for my own mirror.

Quotes by Ricky Martin

I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.

Quotes by Rick Riordan

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

Richard Wright

It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure.

Quotes by Richard House

I thus decided to leave the university forever and tried to find an industrial job in the United States.

Quotes by Richard Ernst

There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.

Quotes by Richard Eyre

I'm in spend-down. I've got a billion in cash. You can't leave people a billion pounds, can you?

Quotes by Richard Desmond

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good, too. They never leave the house. They're too disclosing.

Quotes by Richard Bausch

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

Quotes by Renee Fleming

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.

Quotes by Rene Char

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.

Quotes by Regina King

What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.

Quotes by Ratan Tata

It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

Quotes by Randy Travis

The secretariat will play a pivotal role in decision-making above a certain level, where basic policies are involved, but below that, we will have to leave the implementation to whoever is in charge.

Quotes by Rajiv Gandhi

Illinois is home to a disproportionate share of Dreamers and would suffer a significant economic blow should they be compelled to leave.

Quotes by Raja Krishnamoorthi

Progressives control America's schools and text book industry and they dishonestly leave the ugliest parts of the collectivist story out.

Quotes by Rachel Campos-Duffy

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a witty or humorous quote about leaving in this collection?
Yes - one quote plays on the idea of leaving relationships with dark humor: "I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house." For more sharp, personality-driven quotes, see our Me collection.
Does this page mention a real place that's hard to leave?
Yes, one quote humorously compares Paris to a "Roach Motel for top American journalists," noting that journalists "check in, having won the plum foreign posting, but never leave."
Is there a quote about being forced to leave under difficult circumstances?
Yes - one quote describes contractors being driven out amid violence: "Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified." For more on the theme of moving on from hardship, see our Behind collection.
Is there a quote about being asked to leave a job or position?
Yes, one quote reflects on facing pressure to step down after two decades, mentioning that some felt the Israel Philharmonic should consider "asking me to leave" after 20 years.
Where can I find more quotes about moving forward or letting go?
For more on that idea, browse our Go collection, and for lighter reflections on everyday feelings, check out Like.

Other lines take a wry, personal turn on relationships ending, a tone shared with our Me and Like quotes.