About This Quote
If you don't think you can do something, but want to try anyway, you might as well give up now. When we try to do things we may not be able to do, we can end up doing something much worse than what we wanted to do in the first place. That is what this quote means; we will end up doing things we don't want to do. Or we will end up doing things that weren't even necessary in the first place.
Source: Plain Kate
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