Stop Trying Quotes - Page 3

• Stop trying to impress people with your clothes and impress them with your life.

  Richard J. Foster

  Clothes, People, Trying

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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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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• Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science - for to fill your heart with love is enough!

  Richard P. Feynman

  Life, Heart, Son

  "No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman". Book by Christopher Sykes, 1996.

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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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• 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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• You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

  Rick Warren

  Trying, Success In Life, Plans

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• What matters is that you never stop trying.

  Marc Parent

  What Matters, Trying, Matter

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• Shouldn't I join the ranks of philosophers and merely make unsubstantiated claims about the wonders of human consciousness? Shouldn't I stop trying to do some science and keep my head down? Indeed not.

  Kevin Warwick

  Trying, Philosopher, Wonder

  "Feisty Fragments: For Philosophy". Book by Vincent F. Hendricks, 2004.

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• Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.

  Eve Ensler

  Broken, Trying, Body

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• If you want your life to have impact, focus it! Stop dabbling. Stop trying to do it all. Do less. Prune away even good activities and do only that which matters most. Never confuse activity with productivity. You can be busy without a purpose, but what's the point?

  Rick Warren

  Impact, Focus, Trying

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.30, Zondervan

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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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• New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open the bag, there’s no stopping us until we’re licking stray bits of powdered cheese off the carpet. So stop trying to give us nutritional information based on a fraction of the package. It assumes a talent for two things that we’re really not capable of: restraint and math.

  Bill Maher

  Mean, Math, Two

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.196, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Too late. I’ve already seen the blush. Stop trying to hide it from me. I think it’s adorable.

  Abbi Glines

  Thinking, Adorable, Trying

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• Look, just stop trying to annihilate yourself, okay? Because if I think you can do it, I'll make Doc pull me out today. Or I'll tell Jared. Just imagine what he would do. I imagined it for her, smiling a little through my tears. Remeber? He said no guarantees about what he would or wouldn't do to keep you here. I though of those buring kisses in the hall...thought of other kisses and other nights in her memory. My face warmed as I blushed. You fight dirty. You bet I do.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Memories, Dirty, Fighting

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• Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Rivers, Trying

  Deepak Chopra (2003). “Golf for Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons for the Game of Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.

  Ann Patchett

  Nice, Tired, Men

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• Slow down. Stop trying to do everything now, now, now. Hold up the people behind you for all you care, feel them kicking at your heels but maintain your pace. Don't let anybody dictate your speed.

  Cecelia Ahern

  People, Trying, Kicking

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• So Dobby stopped us from getting on the train and broke your arm. . . ." He shook his head. "You know what, Harry? If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Trying, Dobby, Arms

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• Now that we know you're not a hundred percent vampire you should stop trying to suck necks," I said to Ziggy. "I'll try," Ziggy said, "but it's a hard habit to break.

  Janet Evanovich

  Vampire, Trying, Necks

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.688, Bantam

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• Don't give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

  Brian Dyson

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Trying

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• Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.

  Steven Furtick

  Mean, Acceptance, Accepting God

  Steven Furtick (2014). “Crash the Chatterbox: Hearing God's Voice Above All Others”, p.42, Multnomah

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