Stopping Quotes

• ‎"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

  Thomas Merton

  Jobs, Worthy, Not Worthy

  Thomas Merton (1976). “Disputed Questions”, p.143, Macmillan

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• Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

  Thomas Merton

  Love, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Thomas Merton (1976). “The Power and Meaning of Love”

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• Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Way, Ethics

  "Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• Stop worrying and start living.

  Dale Carnegie

  Life, Encouraging, Worry

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing to do.

  Marcus Miller

  Inspirational, Music, African American

  Interview with Eva Simontacchi, www.jazzitalia.net. April 10, 2005.

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• If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Aug 12, 2012

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• To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "A Miscellany (A Poet's Advice to Students)". Book by E. E. Cummings edited by George James Firmage, 1958.

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• Whose woods these are I think I know.
  His house is in the village though;
  He will not see me stopping here
  To watch his woods fill up with snow.

  Robert Frost

  Thinking, Snow, House

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 1 (1923)

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• Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better.

  Ed Pastor

  Range, Bombing

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• The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Reality, Blood, Jet

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• I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this - no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one.

  Will Rogers

  War, Lasts, Schemes

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

  Aaron Copland

  Music, Time, Would Be

  Aaron Copland (1959). “The pleasures of music”

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• Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

  Julian Assange

  Censorship, Form, Leaks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.

  Yasser Arafat

  Thinking, Uprising, Giving

  Daily Telegraph, January 19, 1989.

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• A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever and generally stopping before it gets there.

  Agnes Repplier

  Cat, Rushing, Mad

  Agnes Repplier (1901). “The Fireside Sphinx”

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• A winner never stops trying.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Like a child who suddenly stops sobbing when he is clasped in the arms of his mother, such will be the grip of heaven upon our souls.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Inspirational, Christian, Mother

  Twitter post from May 10, 2015

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• The funny thing about stop signs is that they're also start signs.

  Maureen Johnson

  Inspirational, Funny, New Beginnings

  Maureen Johnson (2009). “The Key to the Golden Firebird”, Harper Collins

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• Protest is when I say I don't like this. Resistance is when I put an end to what I don't like. Protest is when I say I refuse to go along with this anymore. Resistance is when I make sure everybody else stops going along too.

  Ulrike Meinhof

  Germany, Resistance, Revolution

  Ulrike Meinhof (2011). “Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don't: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof”, p.31, Seven Stories Press

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• I'm not on this earth to be a goalie. I'm not here to stop somebody from accomplishing their goals. If you're not hurting anybody, I'm here to either assist or get out of the way

  Kyle Kinane

  Hurt, Accomplishment, Goal

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  Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.

  Sarah Palin

  Guy, President, Nuclear

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. April 29, 2014.

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• As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.

  Nick Woodman

  Business, Thinking, Ideas

  "GoPro Founder Nick Woodman: 'I Am Doing This'". Interview with Sam Moulton, www.outsideonline.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

  John Hughes

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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