Stop Trying Quotes - Page 8

• To THINK BIG and to use our talents doesn't mean we won't have difficulties along the way. We will - we all do... If we choose to see the obstacles in our path as barriers, we stop trying. "We can't win," we moan. "They won't let us win."

  Benjamin Carson

  Mean, Winning, Thinking

  "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story". Book by Benjamin Carson, 1990.

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• Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Cutting, Trying, Sometimes

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.153, Macmillan

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• You're damned if you're too thin and you're damned if you're too heavy. According to the press, I've been both. It's impossible to satisfy everyone and I suggest we stop trying.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Self Esteem, Trying, Impossible

  "Celebs who've complained about dieting" by Olivia Allin, www.cnn.com. April 27, 2010.

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• Stop trying to save me. You couldn't then; you can't now.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Trying, Save Me

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• As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before, often. It’s one of those drunken long shots which just might, at least theoretically, once in ten thousand tries, throw a relationship right out of its orbit and send it whizzing off on another. Do women ever stop trying? No. But, because they never stop, they learn to be good losers.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Kissing, Long, Trying

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• Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.

  Harriet Lerner

  Trying, Helpful, Sometimes

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• Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

  Flora Lewis

  Truth, Trying, Substance

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• Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.

  James Patterson

  Writing, Trying, Stories

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• Stop trying to find something in food that will make you feel better.

  Richard Simmons

  Feel Better, Oysters, Trying

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• ... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.

  Sylvia Plath

  Believe, Home, Writing

  Sylvia Plath, Aurelia Schober Plath (1975). “Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?

  Jack Levine

  Hands, Trying, Enough

  Jack Levine, Milton Wolf Brown (1989). “Jack Levine”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say "no", never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.

  Bruce Bennett

  Sports, Believe, Trying

  Interview with Marc Blau, 2004.

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• I pulled myself up and told myself to stop these ridiculous thoughts, wondering why it is that we can never stop trying to analyse the motives of people who have no personal interest in us, in the vain hope of finding that perhaps they may have just a little after all.

  Barbara Pym

  People, Trying, May

  Barbara Pym (2006). “Excellent Women”, p.162, Penguin

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