Stop Trying Quotes - Page 2

• If we're free from the burden of trying to be completely original, we can stop trying to make something out of nothing, and we can embrace influence instead of running from it.

  Austin Kleon

  Running, Trying, Influence

  Austin Kleon (2012). “Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative”, p.8, Workman Publishing

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• Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.

  Greg McKeown

  Giving, Trying, Saying Yes

  Greg McKeown (2014). “Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less”, p.4, Random House

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• God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

  Bayard Rustin

  Peace, Ubuntu, Humanity

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• The greatest failure in life is to stop trying.

  Napoleon Hill

  Failure, Trying, Life Is

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• It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.

  Ann Aguirre

  Trying, Defeat

  Ann Aguirre (2013). “Horde”, p.119, Macmillan

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• will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

  Jacqueline Wilson

  Brave, Trying, Mama

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• Mat had tried to make her say she saw a hat floating around Mat's head. That would persuade Tuon to stop trying to get rid of his, would it not?

  Robert Jordan

  Trying, Floating, Saws

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• No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.

  André Aciman

  Mistake, Self, Numbers

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• Just … isn’t giving up allowed sometimes? Isn’t it okay to say, ‘This really hurts, so I’m going to stop trying’?” “It sets a dangerous precedent.” “For avoiding pain?” “For avoiding life.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hurt, Pain, Giving Up

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

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• The passion has never left me. I live as two people - myself, Dan Fante, and Bruno Dante or Mickey Di Salvo, or whoever I say I am in one of my books. I can tap that Bruno character any time I need to. He lives inside me like a quiet, simmering pool of magma. Years ago I stopped feeding him with booze and he was kind enough to stop trying to kill me. That's our truce.

  Dan Fante

  Book, Passion, Character

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• Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

  William McDonough

  Trying, Be Good, Earnest

  William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2010). “Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things”, p.177, Macmillan

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• Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.

  Neville Goddard

  Men, Mirrors, Trying

  Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

  D. A. Carson

  Trying, Worship, Excellent

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• Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Life, Inspiring, Yoga

  B.K.S. Iyengar (2014). “BKS Iyengar Yoga The Path to Holistic Health”, p.396, Dorling Kindersley Ltd

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• Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.

  Michael Caine

  Truth, Reality, Trying

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• The problem with most religious people is they try to earn grace but you can’t earn it. And as long as you’re trying to earn it by works, you don’t receive it. At some point you just have to stop trying to earn it and just receive it.

  Derek Prince

  Religious, Long, People

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• It’s time to write dangerous music. It’s time to take risks. It’s time to wear your heart on your sleeve, and sing about the things that actually matter to you. It’s time to bury the shackles of religious expectation and stop trying to put new clothes on the dead.

  John Mark McMillan

  Religious, Writing, Heart

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• Do you think I’ll ever get better at this? That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Heart, Thinking

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• Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Trying, Want, Whole

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• Stop trying to make this life into what it cannot and never was intended to be: jennah. Only then will it stop breaking your heart.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Islamic, Heart, Trying

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• It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.

  Gillian Flynn

  Trying, Impossible

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.881, Broadway Books

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• Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections.

  Warren Buffett

  Trying, Investing, Buffets

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• And for me, it is a choice. I understand that for many people its not, but for me its a choice, and you dont get to define my gayness for me. A certain section of our community is very concerned that it not be seen as a choice, because if its a choice, then we could opt out. I say it doesnt matter if we flew here or we swam here, it matters that we are here and we are one group and let us stop trying to make a litmus test for who is considered gay and who is not.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Gay, People, Choices

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• Stop trying to find the formula that will instantly make your idea into a winner. Instead of being scientists, the best marketers are artists. They realize that whatever is being sold is being purchased, because it creates an emotional want, not because it fills a simple need.

  Seth Godin

  Artist, Simple, Emotional

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• Stop trying to fit [Christ] into your life; instead, build your life around [Him].

  Leslie Ludy

  Trying, Fit, Christ

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