Quotes about stop

A collection of quotes on the topic of stop, doing, people, use.

Meryl Streep quote: “The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.”

Nick Jonas quote: “Stop hoping, start believing.”

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Karl Lagerfeld quote: “When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.”

Albert Einstein quote: “The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

Gabriel García Márquez quote: “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

Quotes about stop

“He cannot stop imagining his bloody hands or himself lying mortally at the bottom of that bathtub, which, for now, serves as his refuge, as his escape from the World, from that which is outside, but which, Any day now, I could decide to go in.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

World, Imagination, Lying

“And if you ever need a friend then you got me And in the end, when I die, would you watch me? And if I try suicide, would you stop me? Would you help me get a grip or would you drop me?”

Lil Peep (1996–2017) American rapper

Song Life is Beautiful, Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2

Suicide, Help

“Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve - in declaring the films that you love, the films that you want to make, the life that you’ve had, and the lives you can help reflect in cinema. For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to say, say it from the rooftops.”

Tom Hiddleston (1981) English actor, producer and musical performer

Love, Life, Making love, Dreams

“The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.”

Meryl Streep (1949) American actress

People, Thinking

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

Source: Heliogabalus

Love, War, Wise, For Him

“During your life, never stop dreaming. No one can take away your dreams”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Life, Dreams

“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

People

“(We make the traffic stop) "Stop the traffic…let 'em through…"”

Louis Tomlinson (1991) English pop singer

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5834782.Louis_Tomlinson

“If you don't like this, I'll stop writing music.”

Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) Italian composer

Se questa non piace, non voglio più scrivere di musica.
Quoted in: Michael Talbot (1978) Vivaldi, p. 90
An ironic note written upon an aria score of his opera Orlando Furioso (1727).

Music

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Hope, Soul, Singing, Inspirational

“Today is filled with anger, fueled with hidden hate.
Scared of being outkast, afraid of common fate.
Today is build on tragedies which no one want's to face.
Nightmares to humanity and morally disgraced.
Tonight is filled with Rage, violence in the air.
Children bred with ruthlessness cause no one at home cares.
Tonight I lay my head down but the pressure never stops,
knowing that my sanity content when I'm droped.
But tomorrow I see change, a chance to build a new,
build on spirit intent of heart and ideas based on truth.
Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong because of pride.
I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

Hate, Fate, Children, Truth

“Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war?
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying earth, these weeping shores?”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

Earth Song
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)

War, Children, Cry, Dead

“If you wanna drive a Ferrari one day, stop taking advice from Toyota drivers.”

Kian barazandeh (1998) Actor , Model

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVaNFkFsQMW/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"

“We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.”

Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer

Source: The Best That Money Can't Buy: Beyond Politics, Poverty, & War (2002), p. 33.

Justice, Fight, Parting

“The behavior of the Taliban as well as their extremist attitudes do not correspond in any way with a tolerant Islam. We have always been opposed to extremist tendencies of Islam and we still are. We have not stopped insisting on defending an Islam of tolerance which would be profitable to every Muslim, in Afghanistan and in the whole world, and we will always defend it.”

Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953–2001) Afghan military leader

Meeting with European legislators http://www.afghanistannewscenter.com/news/2000/june/jun23i2000.html (11 June 2000).

World, Way, Behavior

“You must be willing to pay the price of being called an “adult”. Stop and reflect upon your life.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life

“If you hear the dogs, keep going. If you see the torches in the woods, keep going. If there's shouting after you, keep going. Don't ever stop. Keep going. If you want a taste of freedom, keep going.”

Harriet Tubman (1820–1913) African-American abolitionist and humanitarian

Dogs, Freedom

“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.”

B.F. Skinner (1904–1990) American behaviorist

Failure

“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”

George Orwell book Coming Up for Air

Source: Coming Up for Air, Part 3, Ch. 1

Idea

“If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

Learning, Help, Motivational, For women

“You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.”

Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) Indian religious leader

“We can't stop living because other people are dead.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

People, Dead

“When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Life

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Feeling, Soul

“People tend to take pride in who they are. And that's a bad idea, because that stops you from becoming who you could be. Because, if you're proud of who you are, you won't let that go when it's necessary; you won't step away from it.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

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Other

People, Idea

“Stop telling God what to do with his dice.”

Niels Bohr (1885–1962) Danish physicist

A response to Einstein's assertion that "God doesn't play dice"; a similar statement is attributed to Enrico Fermi
Disputed
Variant: Einstein, don't tell God what to do.
Variant: Don't tell God what to do with his dice.
Variant: You ought not to speak for what Providence can or can not do. – As described in The Physicists: A generation that changed the world (1981) by C. P. Snow, p. 84

God

“LOVE is to stop making demands on people and give them room to grow.”

Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer

Love, People, Making love

“Each of us has a particular way of looking at the world, of interpreting events and the actions of people around us. This is our attitude, and it determines much of what happens to us in life. If our attitude is essentially fearful, we see the negative in every circumstance. We stop ourselves from taking chances. We blame others for mistakes and fail to learn from them. If we feel hostile or suspicious, we make others feel such emotions in our presence. We sabotage our career and relationships by unconsciously creating the circumstances we fear the most. The human attitude, however, is malleable. By making our attitude more positive, open, and tolerant of other people, we can spark a different dynamic—we can learn from adversity, create opportunities out of nothing, and draw people to us. We must explore the limits of our willpower and how far it can take us.”

Robert Greene (1959) American author

Chap. 8 : Change Your Circumstances by Changing Your Attitude
The Laws of Human Nature (2018)

Life, Hostility, People, World

“I've been walking through a world gone blind
Can't stop thinking of your diamond mind
Careful creature made friends with time
He left her lonely with a diamond mind
And those ocean eyes”

Billie Eilish (2001) American singer-songwriter

"Ocean Eyes" — though her breakthrough hit after she posted her performance of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d--DyK0wtYo to SoundCloud for her dance teacher on 18 November 2015, the lyrics were written entirely by her brother Finneas O'Connell, who also collaborates with her on most of her other musical work. · Official Music Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viimfQi_pUw Misattributed

World, Thinking, Time

“I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.”

Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer

“Stop determining your worth and value by what other people say. Be determined by what the Word of God (scriptures)says.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

God, People

“It don't stop 'til the casket drop.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Source: The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Imagination, Thinking, Motivational

“You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.”

John Lydon (1956) English singer, songwriter, and musician

Death, Kiss, Thinking, Change

“Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”

George Orwell book 1984

Source: 1984

Love, Feeling, Betrayal

“I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two… Or three but that had never
stopped me from loving you.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Source: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Love

“It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.”

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Motivational, Deep, Success, Inspirational

“And did you ever stop to think that im old enough to go to war but i aint old enough to drink.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

War, Drink, Thinking

“Success comes on God’s terms, in His time, and in His way. God only allowed me to have success after I’d been broken, after I’d stopped seeking success for myself, and after I’d come to terms with the idea that my labors for God might not ever bring me a penny. It was only after I’d lost everything that God was able to get my heart right to the point where He could trust me with success.”

Scott Cawthon (1971) American independent video game designer

God, Way, Idea, Time

“To Joseph Stalin: Stop sending people to kill me! We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle… If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send a very fast working one to Moscow and I certainly won't have to send another.”

Josip Broz Tito (1892–1980) Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman

Robert Service, Stalin: A Biography (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005), p. 592.
Message found among the personal effects of Joseph Stalin.
Other

People

“Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science

Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995)
Misattributed

Confidence, Failure, Problem, Help

“The day i stop enjoying football is the day ill go to drink tea with my mom”

Juan Román Riquelme (1978) Argentine footballer

Moms, Drink, Football, Tea

“Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.”

Chief Joseph (1840–1904) Nez Percé Chieftain

Lincoln Hall Speech (1879)

Religion, Law, Penalty, Travel

“The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.”

Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor

1990s, Prison interviews and interrogations (1995)

Death, Music

“Stop hoping, start believing.”

Nick Jonas (1992) American singer

Hope

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 29–30
Context: You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Fear, Confidence, Courage, Motivational

“Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

"Who says words with my mouth?" in Ch. 1 : The Tavern, p. 2
The Essential Rumi (1995)
Context: Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
If I could taste one sip of an answer,
I could break out of this prison for drunks.
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.
Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home.

Soul

“I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Speech to Federation of Conservative Students Conference (24 March 1975) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/102663 Leader of the Opposition Context: I shall never stop fighting. I mean this country to survive, to prosper and to be free... I haven't fought the destructive forces of socialism for more than twenty years in order to stop now, when the critical phase of the struggle is upon us.

Fight, Country

“Remember, when someone says ‘you’ve changed,’ it usually just means you’ve stopped living your life their way.”

Ricky Gervais (1961) English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writer, and former radio presenter

Life, Way, Change

“A solution to stop gang banging: SNOW!!”

Eazy-E (1963–1995) American rapper and producer

MTV interview

“To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy. We are not enemies. We are Americans.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiLR4sCgvnc
Context: But now, let’s give each other a chance.
It’s time to put away the harsh rhetoric.
To lower the temperature.
To see each other again.
To listen to each other again.
To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy.
We are not enemies. We are Americans.

Making love

“Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.”

Alan Watts (1915–1973) British philosopher, writer and speaker

“Does it ever stop? The wanting you?" "Even when I've just left ye. I want you so much my chest feels tight and my fingers ache with wanting to touch ye again.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Feeling

“I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Other sources Source: Banksy In His Own Words- Interview At The Sun https://web.archive.org/web/20181102203920/http://graffart.eu/blog/2010/09/banksy-in-his-own-words-interview-at-the-sun/, Graffart.eu, Retrieved 2 November 2018

Time

“When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears.”

Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet

Bird, Singing, Heart

“Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.”

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) English author

Wisdom

“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then — whoosh, and I'm gone… and they'll never see anything like it ever again… and they won't be able to forget me — ever.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

As quoted in Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip (2003), by Erik Quisling, and Austin Lowry Williams p. 152

Star, Forgetting

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman

Business

“Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

Happiness, Feeling, Happy, Depressing

“If you don’t like seeing pictures of violence towards animals being posted, you need to help stop the violence, not the pictures.”

Johnny Depp (1963) American actor, film producer, and musician

Help, Animals

“To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer

Art

“The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.”

Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist

Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

Life, Exercises, Change, Joy

“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Way

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Heart

“I see every director as a different brand. That way, it’s easy for me to compartmentalise my work. So I can easily switch from one film to the other and refresh myself when I hit a mental block. I don’t want my music to sound like a pastiche of other works. So I stop listening to my songs once the audio for a film is released. When I unwind, it’s usually with jazz.”

Yuvan Shankar Raja (1979) Indian musician

Yuvan Unplugged (2009)

Music, Way

“"I would rather have no offspring than sacrifice our nation's interests." Chiang had absolutely no intention of stopping the war against the Communists.”

Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) Chinese politician and military leader

War

“Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Dissenting, Shelby County v. Holder (2013)

Change

“When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.”

Anton LaVey (1930–1997) Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible

" Eleven Satanic Rules of the Earth http://www.churchofsatan.com/Pages/Eleven.html"

“Most people depend on the internet and cellphones to survive, but what happens when they stop working? I wanted to create a mother and child who wouldn't be defeated by life without them.”

Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka

(2009) Independent News article 2009 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/hayao-miyazaki-modern-movies-are-too-weird-for-me-1678129.html On Ponyo

Life, People, Dependency

“Well, as everyone knows, once witchcraft gets started, there's no stopping it.”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Book One in the chapter 'Schizophrenia, as Predicted', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)

“Most of people talk, we do things. They plan, we achieve. They hesitate, we move ahead. We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them. Dubai is a living example of that”

Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum (1949) Emirati politician

Inspirational Quotes to lighten our load, http://neuralorganizationtherapy.com/Inspirational_Quotes.html, Neural Organization Therapy

People, Dreams, Courage, Reality

“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

Tears and Saints (1937)

Happiness, Search, Thinking

“The single highest priority need for the human is actually love and belonging. This need is actually more of a priority than basic survival needs. How do I know this? Because when the physical human is deprived of love and belonging, they often stop eating and drinking and stop meeting their basic survival needs and sometimes go so far as to take their own life. Any of you who have had a particularly painful break-up know exactly what I mean.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Love, Life, Pain, Making love

“I wish to never stop working on the things I love.”

Cometan

Book: Cometan, the Omnidoxy

Love, Making love

“I was just walking across the street . . . this guy [a porn producer] stops and he gets off his car and he gives me his card, and i thought about it for about two weeks then you made the mistake of saying yes and going in. and . . . yeah, I did it for about three months, and as soon as I started to gain popularity, that's when I was like, "OK I need to get the F out of here, this is not what I was trying to do whatsoever", I just wanted to let loose and rebel.”

Mia Khalifa (1993) American social media personality and former porn actress

Cars, Guy

“If the soul does not exist, then stop believing in life and death as well.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Life, Death, Soul

“Once you have become president, you must also stop being a politician. Because you can't expect to rule all citizens while being a fanatic of your one political party.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The ideas of the sun rises from the East and sets on West will stop, including the idea of day and night, will cease to exist except inside our imaginations.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Imagination, Idea, Sun, Night

“The war continues. Russia is sending new forces to our land to continue to destroy us, to destroy Ukrainians. We must do more to stop the war!
The first and most important thing is weapons. Freedom must be armed no worse than tyranny.”

Volodymyr Zelensky (1978) 6th President of Ukraine

"Speech to the Norwegian Storting" (30 March 2022) https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/promova-prezidenta-ukrayini-volodimira-zelenskogo-v-parlamen-73961

War, Freedom

“As if already destined for the seventh circle, a shudder stops him from heading toward the unknown, toward the beautifully fatal.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos