Stop Trying Quotes - Page 5

• With more and more states legalizing marijuana, companies are lining up to create the first marijuana breathalyzer. Officials say the toughest part is getting stoners to stop trying to inhale off the breathalyzer.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Marijuana, Trying, Firsts

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• Either offer me something I really like, or stop trying to tempt me.

  Mason Cooley

  Temptation, Trying, Offers

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• The good life begins with Christ and ends with me. I need to stop following me and stop trying to make life all about me.

  Trip Lee

  Good Life, Trying, Needs

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

  Martha Beck

  Trying, Belief, Behavior

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• Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

  Melody Beattie

  Letting Go, Trying, Today

  Melody Beattie (2003). “The Language of Letting Go: A Meditation Book and Journal for Daily Reflections”, Hazelden Publishing

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• My advice is to stop trying to "network" in the traditional business sense, and instead just try to build up the number and depth of your friendships, where the friendship itself is its own reward. The more diverse your set of friendships are, the more likely you'll derive both personal and business benefits from your friendship later down the road. You won't know exactly what those benefits will be, but if your friendships are genuine, those benefits will magically appear 2-3 years later down the road.

  Tony Hsieh

  Years, Numbers, Advice

  "Zappos CEO: Don’t Network, Build Relationships" by Tony Hsieh, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

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• Negative feelings are in you, not in reality. Stop trying to change reality. That's crazy! Stop trying to change the other person. We spend all our time and energy trying to change external circumstances, trying to change our spouses, our bosses, our friends, our enemies, and everybody else. We don't have to change anything. Negative feelings are in you.

  Anthony de Mello

  Crazy, Reality, Boss

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.79, Image

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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. Knowing what I now know, I'd turn to me.

  Richard Simmons

  Fun, Coffee, School

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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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 change someone who does not want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop walking back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.

  Trent Shelton

  Heart, Giving, Abuse

  Twitter post from Feb 12, 2018

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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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• 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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• When you know something or someone in your life is unhealthy or unproductive, that you have grown beyond where they are and where they want to keep you, you must let go. If you tell yourself you do not see it when you do, or if you tell yourself it will get better, you are not being honest with yourself. Stop trying to fix things or change things. Simply let go.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Letting Go, Trying, Get Better

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Nov 22, 2015

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• It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, that I actually started to own, accept and love what I had.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Trying, And Love, Accepting

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• If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

  Brigham Young

  Lying, Men, Names

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.275

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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 figure it all. Why worry about it all so much? Why not just live? And then you die. And then you live again, unless, of course, you follow me.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Worry, Trying

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• Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Destiny, Trying, Steers

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• The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things

  Augusten Burroughs

  Creative, Trying, Nebula

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• Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

  Melody Beattie

  Gratitude, Blessing, Keys

  Melody Beattie (1990). “The Language of Letting Go”, p.18, Hazelden Publishing

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• Enjoy the moment, because that is all you have. You never are going to arrive someplace else. You are in a constant state of living in this moment, and that is the only arrival there is. In fact, you will arrive when you stop trying to get someplace else.

  Wayne Dyer

  Trying, Facts, Moments

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• Could you achieve the possible without trying? Could you achieve the impossible if you refuse to stop trying?

  Ron Kaufman

  Service Culture, Trying, Impossible

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• As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.

  Kevin Hart

  Writing, Trying, Anxious

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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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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• Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hard Work, Buddhism, Trying

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