Stop Trying Quotes - Page 5

• We reach the goal not by the stairs, but by the lift..... God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves.
  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Goal, Trying, World

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• You can't please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.

  Paul Thurrott

  Trying, Microsoft, Please

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• [W]e must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect it on the backs, and the graves, of he nation's and world's most powerless and impoverished people.

  Niger Innis

  People, Risk, Trying

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• I worked hard at that through most of the '80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. I had to decide at what level to rebuild, and I decided that I was going to stop trying to be all things to all people, and just go back to playing the guitar.

  Tom Rush

  Guitar, People, Office

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• If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.

  Russell Peters

  Beautiful, Trying, Acting

  "'I Hate Bollywood' Says Canadian Comedian Russell Peters" by Nyay Bhushan, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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• Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go!

  Brad Pitt

  Letting Go, Weekend, Nihilism

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• The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight!

  Chris Oyakhilome

  Fighting, Trying, Devil

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• Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Shoes, Tennis, Trying

  "'Music Is Not A Loaf Of Bread'". WIRED Interview, www.wired.com. November 15, 2004.

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• It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.

  Donna Freitas

  Love You, Trying, Might

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• The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

  Denis Waitley

  Criticism, Trying, Power Of Positive Thinking

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• It's fun to be the subservient character who is too dumb to know when to stop trying to win against the awesome superhero.

  Kyle Cassie

  Fun, Character, Winning

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• A psychiatrist once told me early in treatment, "Stop trying to make me like you," and what a sobering and welcome smack in the face that statement was. Yet somehow, every day of my life is still a campaign for popularity, or better yet, a crowded funeral.

  John Waters

  Funeral, Trying, Campaigns

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.30, Macmillan

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• We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.

  David Bowie

  Knights, Expression, Blood

  Song: Candidate, Album: Diamond Dogs, 1974

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• Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you... Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's busineess... Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's Business. Leave it to God.

  Frederick Buechner

  Judging, Trying, Remember

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• Stop trying to be what society's shoving down your throat.

  Kendall Schmidt

  Trying, Throat

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• Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there.

  Ernest Holmes

  Struggle, Law, Trying

  Ernest Holmes (2007). “Creative Mind”, p.31, Lulu.com

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• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better. I used to have eating disorders; I'd binge and purge all the time: fried oysters, po' boys, muffulettas, beignets, coffee and doughnuts. I tried to medicate myself with food when people made fun of me or hit me with a bat in school. I'd always turn to food.

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, Coffee, School

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Sight, Trying

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.45, Penguin

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• I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.

  Sacha Guitry

  Men, Trying, Ifs

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• Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Europe, Ideas, Trying

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• We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

  Richard Adams

  Fall, Trying, Needs

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• Stop trying to do things that will make you happy. Happiness is a state of mind; because otherwise, you are a slave to circumstance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Mind

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• Practice smiling for five minutes. Stop trying to meditate. Just smile. Let your smile get bigger and bigger. Oh, you're unhappy, you're miserable, nothing is working in life, it doesn't matter. Smile anyway.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Practice

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• The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don't fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don't need to, because we are the clay and He is the Potter. We need to stop trying to domesticate God or confine Him to tidy categories and compartments that reflect our human sentiments rather than His inexplicable ways.

  Francis Chan

  Trying, Clay, Needs

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2011). “Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up”, p.88, David C Cook

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• Defeat only happens when you make the decision to stop trying. Because determination works. Steady forward motion, even if it's just a step per week, gets you there. So keep moving, even if it's only a little some weeks.

  Ken Evoy

  Determination, Moving, Decision

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