The best stop quotes to keep you moving forward and never giving up no matter how difficult things get.
One of the most common sources of procrastination is self-doubt — or as I like to call it, giving up before you even start.
The idea that you’re not good enough, not worthy, or simply not capable of achieving something can be incredibly difficult to overcome, which is why it’s so important to make use of stop quotes to keep yourself from throwing in the towel before you even get started.
Many a times in our daily lives, we’re bombarded with messages telling us to give up or stop trying because something is too difficult or there are too many obstacles in our way.
But in order to succeed, it’s important to ignore these negative messages and not give up on ourselves or the dreams we have for ourselves and our lives, because every obstacle you overcome helps make you stronger and more prepared for the next challenge life throws at you.
Even though you don’t want to hear it, sometimes the best way to stop you from quitting on your goals is to listen to someone who has been there before.
These 91 stop quotes, by some of the most successful people of all time, will help you stay focused and motivated when you start thinking about giving up on your plans.
Stopping is the first step towards failure, but it’s also the first step towards success; it’s the only way to get there.
―Nishu
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Best Short Stop Quotes
THE BUCK STOPS HERE.
Stop. Revive. Survive. ―Melina Marchetta
Never stop listening to your audience. ―David Copperfield
Never stop moving, or you’ll stop moving. ―Liza Minnelli
Stop running away and you will be found. ―Lao Tzu
Nobody can stop fate, nobody can. ―Mickey
The heart apparently doesn’t stop that easily. ―Haruki Murakami
Never stop taking risks. Just keep reaching. ―Ryan Eggold
Stop thinking, and end your problems. ―Lao Tzu
You know, sqeezin’ that watch won’t stop time. ―Ben Wade
Some mistakes you never stop paying for. ―Roy Hobbs
Stop leaving and you will arrive. Stop searching and you will see. ―Lao Tzu
Stop Quotes: Best Ways to Motivate Yourself
Sigmund Freud once said, “What do women want?” The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that. ―Bill Cosby
Many a time have I wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed. ―Walter Lippmann
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one, since its beginning and end are not under the control of the same man. ―Sallust
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop. ―Karl Lagerfeld
There are two kinds of evil people in this world. Those who do evil stuff and those who see evil being done and don’t try to stop it. ―Janis
When you stop talking, you’ve lost your customer. ―Estie Lauder
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end. ―Adlai Stevenson
There is excellence all around you. You need only to be aware to stop and savor it. ―Gusteau
If you do not want to be lied to, then you need to stop following politics. ―Steven Magee
You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing. ―George Bernard Shaw
In his downward course he meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resisted at every stop of his progress. ―Frederick Douglass
We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren’t true. It’s always better with the truth. ―R. Buckminster Fuller
Best Stop Quotes to Inspire Change
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. ―Diane Ackerman
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. ―Thomas Alva Edison
Stop the liberals from spending taxpayers’ money on perverted, deviant art. ―Jesse Helms
The revolution? When the shooting stops, and the dead are buried, and the politicians take over, it all adds up to one thing: a lost cause. ―Bill Dolworth
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ―Confucius
My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I’m going to be older than she is. ―Tripp Evans
He’s like a machine. He’s got this gift of blankness. Once you set him in motion, he will not stop. ―Bodhi
You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it’ll happen. ―Sarah Dessen
The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. ―George Jessel
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. ―Albert Einstein
Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop. ―Liezi
I don’t think you have to teach people how to be human. I think you have to teach them how to stop being inhumane. ―Eldridge Cleaver
Stop a bit and think it over. There do be some knots mighty easy to tie but the untying is a cat of a different brade. ―Walter Bagehotyn Rand
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ―Andrew Jackson
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience. ―A.W. Tozer
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place. ―Jimmy Breslin
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. ―Robert Frost
Best Stop Quotes That Will Change the Way You Live
If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s going to stop them. ―Yogi Berra
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes. ―George Orwell
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face… ―Eleanor Roosevelt
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.” ―Sydney J. Harris
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived stop thinking and go in. ―Napoleon Bonaparte
The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. ―Unknown
I hardly remember how I built my bankroll, but I can’t stop thinking about the way I lost it. ―Mike McDermott, Rounders
People like John Lee Hooker, B. B. King and Jerry Lee Lewis demonstrate that this doesn’t stop when you are 30, that you can keep your youth’s inclinations. What is indeed changed, is that you start writing grown-up texts. ―George Kooymans
Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. ―Mignon McLaughlin
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. ―Henry Ford
Live a life full of humility, gratitude, intellectual curiosity, and never stop learning. ―Gza
Unlocking our potential requires education, experience, and determination. One should never stop learning, never stop exploring, never stop going on adventures. ―Deng Ming-Dao
If he’d just pay me what he’s spending to make me stop robbing him, I’d stop robbing him. —Butch Cassidy
Many may have stopped believing in you, but God hasn’t. ―Anita R. Sneed-Carter
Imperfection keeps me trying, and I won’t stop even if I do achieve it. ―Nabil N. Jamal
I got no education, but that’s okay. I know the street, and I’m making all the right connections. With the right woman, there’s no stopping me. I could go right to the top. ―Tony Montana
I can’t stop eating. I eat because I’m unhappy, and I’m unhappy because I eat. It’s a vicious cycle. Now, if you’ll excuse me, there’s someone I’d like to get in touch with and forgive myself. ―Fat Bastard
Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. ―Groucho Marx
Best Stop Quotes: Reasons to Never Use Them
It’s very bad for a girl to be too pretty; stops her from developing a sense of humor or a personality. ―Mum
Our record as a righteous nation has proved so filled with error that, obviously, we must stop thanking God that we are not like other nations. ―Reinhold Niebuhr
If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die. ―Victor Lazlo, Casablanca
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. ―Winston Churchill
Begin at the beginning,” the king said gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then stop.” ―Lewis Carroll
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ―Henry Brooks Adams
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ―Adlai Stevenson
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ―Albert Einstein
If only we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. ―Edith Wharton
Love is like a war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. ―H. L. Mencken
My evil self is at the door, and I have no power to stop it! ―Dr. Edward Morbius
Best Quotes to Stop Making Excuses and Start Taking Action
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again-and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ―Mark Twain
If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again. ―Groucho Marx
If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed. ―Confucius
A vigilante is just a man lost in the scramble of his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely. ―Henri Ducard
Never stop because you are afraid – you are never so likely to be wrong. ―Fridtjof Nansen
It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you have always played it. ―Richard Milhous Nixon
Sure they tear off my clothes, they scratch their initials on my cars, they phone my hotel all night. When they stop, I’ll start to worry. ―Elvis Presley
My psychiatrist says I suffer from the halo effect, the tendency of widows to idealize their dead husbands. He says it keeps me from falling in love again. He has a point, but I can’t imageine I’ll ever stop loving Louie. ―Corinne Jeffries
Thanks to the miles of superhighways under construction, America will soon be a wonderful place to drive-if you don’t want to stop. ―Fletcher Knebel
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships. ―Andy Warhol
Best Verses on Stop
The moment someone begins to give for the sake of receiving more back from the Lord, or he stops sowing bountifully in order to increase his own possessions, the river of God’s bounty will no longer continue to flow. ―George Muller
What this woman wants, with all due respect to S. Freud, is for men to stop asking that question and to realize that women are human beings, not some alien species. They want the same things men want. ―Diane White
The assurance of the believer is not that God will save him even if he stops believing, but that God will keep him believing – God will sustain you in faith, He will make your hope firm and stable to the end. He will cause you to persevere. ―John Piper
You are hanging over the mouth of hell by a single thread, and that thread is breaking. Only a gasp for breath, only a stopping of the heart for a single moment, and you will be in an eternal world, without God, without hope, without forgiveness. Oh, can you face it? ―C.H. Spurgeon
Every good gift that we have had from the cradle up has come from God. If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week. ―D.L. Moody
Best Stop Quotes You’d Love to Tweet
There's a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen, and be the ball. ―Ty Webb Click To TweetIf I say, "I Know," I stop thinking. As long as I keep thinking, I come to understand. That way, I might approach some truth. ―The Professor, Insignificance Click To TweetThe clouds above us join and separate, The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns. Life is like that, so why not relax? Who can stop us from celebrating? ―Lu Yu Click To TweetI hate television, I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ―Orson Welles Click To TweetI am obsessed with Smurfs, thank you. I simply can't stop thinking about the miserable beasts every single minute of every single day! ―Gargamel Click To TweetComputers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. ―Dr. Walter Gibbs Click To TweetThere will always be those who mean to do us harm. To stop them, we risk awakening the same evil within ourselves. ―James T. Kirk Click To TweetThe day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it. —Queen Jamillia Click To TweetWhen my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping. ―Maria Callas Click To TweetGoing slowly does not stop one from arriving. ―African Saying Click To TweetWe may stop ourselves when going up, never when going down. ―Napoleon Bonaparte Click To TweetDownload Best Stop Quotes
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FAQs
Why we should not stop taking risks?
It’s easy for people to get down on themselves when things don’t go their way. But, that doesn’t mean you should stop taking risks and trying new things. Sometimes, you have to endure hard times in order for success later.
What does stop mean for you?
To stop is to cease and desist. It’s like pressing the pause button on a video game. When we’re in a difficult situation, we need to pause, take stock of our thoughts and feelings, and decide if it’s worth continuing. We also need to evaluate what type of continuation we want – do we want something different or do we want things to stay as they are?
Why is it important to stop and take a pause at times?
As human beings, it can be easy to get caught up in our own needs and desires that we forget about others around us. Taking time to stop lets us focus on what’s going on around us so that we can assess if our needs are being met. Stopping gives us time to reflect and think about how best to proceed with any situation.
Conclusion
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