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Daily Inspiration Quote by Shia LaBeouf

"If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up"

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Brutal, meme-ready, and weirdly tender, this line reads like the distilled logic of a pep talk that’s seen the inside of a panic spiral. Shia LaBeouf isn’t offering consolation; he’s offering friction. The phrase “tired of starting over” acknowledges a modern fatigue that’s less about laziness than depletion: the burnout of reinvention culture, relapse narratives, abandoned projects, half-finished self-improvement arcs. Then he snaps the frame shut with “stop giving up,” a command that refuses to flatter your reasons.

The intent is simple but not gentle: transfer agency back to the person who feels stuck. It’s not “the system is unfair” or “healing takes time” (both can be true). It’s “you’re participating in the loop.” That’s the subtext that makes it land and also makes it risky. It’s a line that works best when the obstacle is mainly internal: procrastination, fear of embarrassment, perfectionism disguised as standards. It’s less useful when “giving up” is actually self-protection from unsafe conditions or structural constraints.

Context matters because LaBeouf’s public persona is a messy collision of ambition, spectacle, and self-sabotage. Coming from an actor whose career has ping-ponged between major success and public unraveling, the quote carries the grit of someone who knows restarts aren’t inspirational montages; they’re humiliating, repetitive, and expensive. Its power is its impatience: motivation as intervention, not affirmation. The line doesn’t promise transformation. It promises one thing you can control: the decision not to quit today.

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TopicNever Give Up
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Later attribution: Người Hiệu Suất Cao (Tập 1) (Nguyễn Đức Công Khanh, 2023) modern compilationISBN: 9786047798667 · ID: 9o3LEAAAQBAJ
Text match: 95.00%   Provider: Google Books
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... Shia LaBeouf , anh đã nói : “ Một số người thì mơ về các giấc mơ của mình , trong khi đó , bạn sẽ thức dậy và làm ... If you're tired of starting over , stop giving up " - Shia LaBeouf . THỰC. HÀNH. Như bạn đã biết , động lực của bạn ...
FeaturedThis quote was our Quote of the Day on July 5, 2023
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APA Style (7th ed.)
LaBeouf, Shia. (2026, January 11). If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-youre-tired-of-starting-over-stop-giving-up-171426/

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LaBeouf, Shia. "If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up." FixQuotes. January 11, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-youre-tired-of-starting-over-stop-giving-up-171426/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up." FixQuotes, 11 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-youre-tired-of-starting-over-stop-giving-up-171426/. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.

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Shia LaBeouf

Shia LaBeouf (born June 11, 1986) is a Actor from USA.

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