Trying Quotes

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

While you have people who are actually fronting for your needs and wants, sometimes your needs and wants may not be right for you. The people around you are just trying to keep their jobs.

People are happiest when they're trying to achieve goals that are difficult but not out of reach.

Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.

Four: If you try to force yourself into my head, I will force myself into your pants.

People always try to box you in to what they know you best for.

I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.

I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.

I've met people and have mentors that have taught me and I'm still trying to get better today.

What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Life's too short to spend it trying to keep others happy. You can't please everyone. To fulfill your destiny, stay true to your heart.

There is no luck; you've got to make your luck. You've got to always be prepared-without trying to.

Yeah, it's nice to look up to people, but the more you try to be somebody else, the less you are of yourself.

Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

the time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre

The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

A snake will always be a snake, even if you put a chain around its neck and try to make it walk upright.

What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

'God is Love' means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.

Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.

Nailing him was like trying to thread a needle in a high wind.

Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can.

I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

I had forgotten that talking to you is like trying to pet a cactus." Saiman said dryly. "Thank you for reminding me." "Always happy to oblige.

When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.

You can never get ahead by trying to get even.

I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do.

A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.

You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.

What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Unless you already have a name well known in at least one stratum of society, I don't think trying to do things yourself will be easy - if at all possible.

[Making movies] you're not trying to capture reality, you're trying to capture a photograph of reality.

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

I usually try to make my images look like they just exist, like no effort was put into it.

I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.

We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench

Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless.