“Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.”
Source: On the Edge
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“You never fail until you stop trying.”

“I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying.”
In press conference announcing retirement from Test cricket, quoted in " After 16 yrs, Rahul Wall Dravid retires from intl cricket" in Indian Express (Indianexpress.com) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/after-16-yrs-rahul-wall-dravid-retires-from-intl-cricket/921750/0

Variant: If you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
Source: Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.”
Source: Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings