Top 100 Quotes About You Stop Trying
#1. 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
#2. Why do you bother, Crispin? You married a fighter, so stop trying to convince her that the sidelines suit her better.
Jeaniene Frost
#3. There is no danger is letting people have their say ... There is a danger when you try to stop them from saying it.
Helen Gahagan Douglas
#4. The lesson seems almost Zen: you live longer only when you stop trying to live longer.
Atul Gawande
#5. 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
#6. I hope they know how lucky they are to have you. But that doesn't mean I will ever stop trying to have you for myself. You know as well as I do, Meena, that we belong together. I hope that day will come sometime soon. In the meantime: truce.
With all the love in my heart, Lucien
Meg Cabot
#7. Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.
Stacy London
#8. Don't ever give up.
Don't ever give in.
Don't ever stop trying.
Don't ever sell out.
And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment,
pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.
But never, ever, ever give up.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. Will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me. -Hetty
Jacqueline Wilson
#10. 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
#11. Stop trying to make thing happen for yourself, and let them happen to you.
Irv Thomas
#13. Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.
Gerald McRaney
#14. Stop making excuses for why you can't let yourself have this. It's not conventional but that doesn't mean it isn't real. What's more important? Loving the man that loves you, or trying to achieve this bullshit idea you have of what a perfect relationship is supposed to be?
Stacey Wallace Benefiel
#15. Stop trying to 'fix' yourself; you're NOT broken! You are perfectly imperfect and powerful beyond measure.
Steve Maraboli
#16. You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.
John Burroughs
#17. Jesus said, 'Judge not, lest ye be judged.' Let's stop trying to choose the political leaders who we believe are the most godly because, in reality, only God knows people's hearts. You and I don't, and we are all sinners.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
#18. Could you people stop trying to come up with novel ways to kill me for just ONE HOUR? Or maybe the rest of the night? I would SO like that. Just the rest of the night. Just sit down. Just stop doing anything. Sit down and wait sensibly. Earth, water, air, fire - you're running out of elements here!
Lois McMaster Bujold
#19. With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.
Tori Spelling
#20. The good news is, he's trying to stop you, but he's not trying to kill you."
"Maybe I'll see that as good news tomorrow, but right now I'm a little too pissed off.
Marshall Thornton
#21. Every fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it doesn't stop a wise man from trying.
Harry Anderson
#22. Stop trying to trust people you already know you can't trust!
Pat Montandon
#23. Never forget those who paved the way before you. Never stop trying to better the world for those who will inhabit it after you.
Colleen Hoover
#24. I think it's because you're frightened and you feel helpless, and even though you're trying, things continue to get harder and harder - for the both of you. And the more you try, the more hopeless things seem." "Is there any way to stop feeling this way?
Nicholas Sparks
#25. Kaye watched as he calmed somewhat, thinking that she should stop trying to anticipate what was going to happen next. After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume things would be straight forward from here on in.
Holly Black
#26. That's what you were trying to say, isn't it? I mean, I think ... mostly we're too busy living to stop and notice we're alive. But that sometimes we do. And that that makes the rest of it matter.
Neil Gaiman
#27. When you say: The simple truth is this, and then you pause, and then you finish the sentence, people stop, and they think specifically about what you're saying. And it's, in essence, trying to boil it down to something that's very understandable and meaningful.
Frank Luntz
#28. It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying
John Wooden
#29. When you stop trying to be all things to all people, you can stop worrying about being liked and start building relationships that allow you to be loved. If you are not creating a negative response from somebody, you're probably not very fascinating to anybody.
Sally Hogshead
#30. 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
#31. Stop caring what people think about you. People will always have their opinions. Don't worry about it. What you think about you (and what God thinks about you) is all that matters. You can never please everyone, so stop trying so hard to please people.
Lisa Bedrick
#32. If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.
J.K. Rowling
#33. If you are going to do something that will annoy people, tell them about it afterwards; then they will only be annoyed that you have done it, and won't have all the exasperation of trying to stop you.
Dorothy Cottrell
#34. You give thanks for small things. I gave thanks that I was wearing jeans, not a skirt. People start trying to kill you, you stop wearing skirts.
Glen Duncan
#35. As you stop trying to forcibly manage the thoughts, beliefs and actions that arise from your mind and ask instead to be guided by a source greater than yourself, you will find a world of support showing up in surprising ways.
Debbie Ford
#36. Stop
trying to do what's right and do what feels good for you. You're fucking overthinking everything again.
Cora Reilly
#37. If life is no fun, it is because you are no fun. Your life is always a reflection of who you are ... Try this: Stop taking things, including yourself, so seriously. Life is not as complicated as you have made it out to be.
Larry Winget
#38. Do not pay attention to those who are trying to stop or hinder you
Sunday Adelaja
#39. Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you:
stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#40. Stop trying to be someone you're not. Be what you're good at, be you.
Jeffree Star
#41. When are you going to grow up and stop sleeping around?"
I sat back in my chair, rubbing a hand over face, trying to wake up a little more. "When my dick shrivels up and falls off," I joked.
Kirsty Moseley
#42. I'm trying to make myself let you go before Ms. Mary comes to get you, but you go and shiver at my touch and weaken my resolve to stop holding you.
Abbi Glines
#44. Why is it when you want the ground to swallow you whole, it decides to stop trying? -Ethon
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#45. Life is what you make it and legacy is what you leave it. Stop trying to be perfect, stop waiting for perfection to find you, and start making your environment a product of you instead of the other way around.
A.J. Darkholme
#46. Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Salma Hayek
#47. Stop," she shrieked, "stop trying to make it easier."
"But we do not love each other. We never have..."
"You mean," she screamed, "you have never loved me.
Milton Steinberg
#48. So now you know where to shop. Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses. Stop wasting your money on conspicuous consumption. As a first step, work less, earn less, accumulate less, and "consume" more family time, vacations, and other enjoyable activities.
Jonathan Haidt
#49. In fact, when you're mindful, you actually feel irritation more keenly. However, once you unburden yourself from the delusion that people are deliberately trying to screw you, it's easier to stop getting carried away.
Dan Harris
#50. 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
#51. Do you think I'll ever be better at this?" I wondered, mostly to myself. "That my heart might someday stop trying to jump out of my chest whenever you touch me?"
"I really hope not," he said, a bit smug.
Stephenie Meyer
#52. that there's no man alive who can honestly say those words and mean them. It just isn't possible, so there's no use trying. But that doesn't mean you can't love them anyway. And it doesn't mean that you should ever stop doing your best to let them know how important they are to you." On
Nicholas Sparks
#53. In the words of Madame Leota in the film The Haunted Mansion, 'You try, you fail, you try, you fail, but the only true failure is when you stop trying
Carrie Hope Fletcher
#54. It was the kind of crying that comes from the pit of the stomach and brings a headache with it. The kind that makes a person snort and gasp, and no matter how idiotic you feel or how hard you try, you can't stop.
Robin Jones Gunn
#55. Love isn't measured in chances, Landen. When you love someone, there isn't a limit. As long as you keep trying, I will keep loving you. I don't know if I could stop.
Caisey Quinn
#56. Don't you see, Stef? It's not that I'm serving Valdemar, it's that I'm helping to preserve the kind of people who leave the world better than they found it, and trying to stop the ones who take instead of giving.
Mercedes Lackey
#57. you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together.
let yourself break.
AVA.
#58. Truthfully, I'm not sure at all, but I'd never let anyone know that, not even Seven. And before you say shit, I'm well aware that I just told you, but you don't count so stop trying to inject yourself into the damn story. This is an important moment.
J.M. Darhower
#59. You realize the only way he'll stop trying to keep you alive is if you make him hate you, right?" Her heart shriveled in her chest. "I don't want him to hate me.
Annette Marie
#60. So, a word to all you Femin-Idi-Amins: Stop "liberating" moms by trying to
make them join the workforce. They're already doing the job that God put
them here to do: Everything.
Stephen Colbert
#61. ... warns that you can't stop something that is trying to happen.
Micah Toub
#62. At some point you stop trying to convince people you don't fit inside a box.
Dani Wyatt
#63. You can't stop me in bump. And you definitely can't stop me playing off. You just try to contain me and stop me from getting a lot of catches.
Randy Moss
#64. Don't stop trying newer challenges. What you fear you must face!
Avijeet Das
#65. Archie! Trying to figure out a woman is just like punching yourself in the head -- It feels good when you stop!! (Jughead Jones)
Vic Bloom
#66. Action will sometimes be required, but if you're really doing
it in line with what the Universe is trying to bring to you, it's
going to feel joyous. You're going to feel so alive. Time will
just stop. You could do it all day.
Bob Doyle
#67. There's always hope, Apostolos. Of all men, you know that. It's only when you stop trying to affect the outcome of your life that you're truly defeated. What will come will come. It's how we deal with the shit in between that shapes us. (Savitar)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#68. Hey, you were into him for over two years. I'm allowed to feel a little vulnerable and insecure about the fuckface. Stop trying to stunt my emotional growth, Anne.
Kylie Scott
#69. If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you.
Ruby Rose
#70. Rider: I want to be the guy with a future, with his shit togetherand wo has hope. I want to be the guy worthy of your love, and I'll swear, if you'll have me, I'll do everything in my power to be that man. I'll never stop trying. Ever.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#71. Stop trying to be a hero all the time. You're so busy saving everyone else you forget about yourself.
Kate McCarthy
#72. There is nothing wrong with thought and it can be used whenever necessary. But in every moment you can choose to follow your thoughts or you can recognize that which is not thinking. Don't try to stop thinking, let it happen. Just recognize that which is not thinking.
Adyashanti
#73. I might have been calm, but my dear father was near tears. 'Are you all right, jani?' he said. 'Aba,' I said, trying to reassure him. 'Everybody knows they will die someday. No one can stop death. It doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or from cancer.
Malala Yousafzai
#74. She's been trying to escape since she was little. The thing I don't think she's realized is that eventually you have to stop. And what happens when you do?
Morgan Matson
#75. In the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and that represents death. There's nothing you can do to stop it, to keep yourself from dying. You can try every trick in the book and it still won't prevent it.
Brad Warner
#76. Maybe the brokenness comes to teach you how to kneel. Stop trying to 'be strong'. We cry, to heal. We feel, to stay human.
Yasmin Mogahed
#77. 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
#78. If you were trying to talk a passenger through landing a DC-10, you'd stop walking. Likewise, if you were walking across a gorge on a rope bridge, you'd likely stop talking.
Gary Keller
#79. He put a hand on his throat, as though trying to stop the words, but they came anyway.
You're home. To me.
Kristen Simmons
#80. 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
#81. You will know how far you can go, when you pursue your passion and never stop trying.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#82. 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
#83. If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter." ...
Catherine Marshall
#84. If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?
Andrew Aydin
#85. If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
Leo Rosten
#86. Shhh. Stop trying to carry the whole world on your shoulders. Let someone hold you. Let me.
Donna Kauffman
#87. Stop trying to be something you aren't and just let her love you.
Jay Crownover
#88. Not everything you believe that you can achieve, can be achieved but that won't stop you from trying.
Auliq Ice
#89. You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.
Clint Eastwood
#90. If you really care about animals, then stop trying to figure out how to exploit them 'compassionately'. Just stop exploiting them.
Gary L. Francione
#91. Stop trying to be Perfect; And that makes you kosher Perfect.
Mohith Agadi
#92. If you're injecting fear into other people, then you're trying to kill their minds. You're trying to get them to stop thinking.
Stephen Colbert
#93. Try to be patient and wait for God time to come and see how thing will work for you. Keep trying and never stop trying because there's no harm in that and one day you will hit your target.
Don Simon
#94. A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!
Lewis Carroll
#95. Accepting that your imperfections and so-called negative attributes are part of what makes you unique will help you to stop continually trying to be someone or something that you are not.
Beverly Engel
#96. Establish a closing ritual. Know when to stop working. Try to end each work day the same way, too. Straighten up your desk. Back up your computer. Make a list of what you need to do tomorrow.
Daniel Kahneman
#97. Apparently you have ample proof from experience that you're not going to stop world evil by debating your in-laws into submission, so it's okay to choose not to try.
Carolyn Hax
#98. If you have been trying to limit God - stop it! Don't try to confine Him or His works to any single place or sphere. You wouldn't try to limit the ocean.
Billy Graham
#99. Accepting favors from fiends was so against the rules. Like potato chips, you couldn't stop at just one, then you'd find yourself at Hell's front door trying to explain why your soul had a big brand on it that said Property of Lucifer.
Jana Oliver
#100. Your job is to create. Their job is to try to stop you. Don't do both jobs.
Anna Olson
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