Stop Trying Quotes - Page 7

• Our job is to get out of the way of ourselves and let the art flow through us. We need to stop trying, stop doing, start allowing. We have no clue what we can be when you stop forcing and start being.

  Kyle Cease

  Life, Art, Jobs

  FaceBook post by Kyle Cease from Mar 14, 2013

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• One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Football, Stars

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• Actually, I don't really draw that well. It's just that I don't stop trying as quickly. I keep at it. I happen to have high standards and I try to meet them. I have to struggle like hell to make a drawing look good.

  Milt Kahl

  Struggle, Drawing, Trying

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• The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.

  John Bingham

  Journey, Somewhere Else, Joy

  John Bingham (2002). “No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running”, p.159, Rodale

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• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Lying, Struggle, Trying

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. September 19, 2005.

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• I've found, however, that real change only comes when we let go of the struggle, when we stop trying, and that the greatest key to healing our vision is also the simplest one: expanding our awareness.

  Jacob Liberman

  Letting Go, Real, Struggle

  Jacob Liberman (2011). “Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight”, p.97, Harmony

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• When we stop trying to control events, they fall into a natural order, an order that works. We're at rest while a power much greater than our own takes over, and it does a much better job than we could have done. We learn to trust that the power that holds galaxies together can handle the circumstances of our relatively little lives.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 17, 2013

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• It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Trying, Impossible

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

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• Whether you're 9 or 90, stop trying to fix the things you're bad at, and focus on the things you're good at.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Inspirational, Focus, Trying

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• Stop trying to define who you are and just be.

  Cara Delevingne

  Trying, Who You Are

  Twitter post from Jul 18, 2013

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• Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Inspirational, Motivation, Winning

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• Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.

  Ilona Andrews

  Shoes, Trying, Alive

  Ilona Andrews (2015). “Magic Gifts: A Kate Daniels Novella”, p.126, Penguin

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• When you’re in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It’s not as exciting as being a television star, but it’s not that bad, either. You just have to learn to be satisfied with the way you are for a while. Not Forever. Just until you’re finished resting.

  Barbara Park

  Dream, Stars, Mean

  Barbara Park (2011). “Almost Starring Skinnybones”, p.101, Yearling

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• I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.

  Brandon Mull

  Trying, Knows

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• The only guarantee for failure is to stop trying

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.169, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Hurt, Giving Up, Mistake

  Tori Spelling, Hilary Liftin (2009). “STORI Telling”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• It was being a runner that mattered, not how fast or how far I could run. The joy was in the act of running and in the journey, not in the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else. We can enjoy every moment of movement, as long as where we are is as good as where we'd like to be. That's not to say that you need to be satisfied forever with where you are today. But you need to honor what you've accomplished, rather than thinking of what's left to be done (p. 159).

  John Bingham

  Running, Journey, Thinking

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• My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

  Zadie Smith

  Trying, Twenties, Stories

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• I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

  Charlie Sheen

  Children, Wife, Stupidity

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• There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

  Robert Mitchum

  People, Trying, Approval

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

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• I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fall, Trying, Pilots

  "George R. R. Martin Interview GAME OF THRONES". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 17, 2011.

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• What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked. Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying.

  Brandon Mull

  Trying, Way, Cures

  Brandon Mull (2008). “Rise of the Evening Star”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Bella, would you please stop trying to take your clothes off?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Clothes, Trying

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Eclipse”, p.258, Hachette UK

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• She reminded me of what it did to her when I left — what it still does to her when I leave. She feels horrible about bringing that up, but she’s right. I’ll never be able to make up for that, but I’ll never stop trying anyway.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Trying, Doe, Able

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

  J. K. Rowling

  Trying, Dobby, Ifs

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