Trying Quotes

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

I really love printmaking. It’s like a mystery and you’re trying to figure out how to rein it in.

Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.

In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.

You're trying to figure out who you are when you're younger. However, once you've found yourself, you run your race, and you run in your own lane.

Trying to change the outer is like seeing your unclean or unshaven face in the mirror and trying to shave or clean the mirror.

Actually, something is always happening. People who don't love the moment are always trying to achieve something, but when one is on the way, every moment is 'it.'

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

You can't stop things like Bitcoin. [...]. It's like trying to stop gunpowder.

magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it

Poor people have the blues because they're poor and hungry. Rich people can't sleep at night because they're trying to hold on to their money and everything they have.

Sometimes, we have to promote ourselves. Just go out and be very active about trying to find an opportunity.

Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

Do not interrogate silence because silence is mute; do not expect anything from the gods, nor should you try to bribe them with gifts, because it is in ourselves that we must look for liberation.

Never try to sell at the top. It isn't wise. Sell after a reaction if there is no rally.

The same thing I applied to football, I applied to trying to be an actor and hopefully it came off well.

He used to say to his melancholia patients: "You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.

One of the most helpful things that any body can learn is to give up trying to catch the last eighth - or the first. These two are the most expensive eighths in the world.

When we try to get ourselves out of the way, we can understand much better the needs of the people closest to us.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got here. Any way you look at it, it's a helluva story.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

Lack of clarity is the number-one time-waster. Always be asking, 'What am I trying to do? How am I trying to do it.

I want to try to keep my life the same.

Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.

Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

My entire purpose is trying to be the best in the game, and if that exudes beauty too, that's pretty powerful.

Sir, are you trying to offer me a bribe? How much

One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.

I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.

When you try, God is there and you get the grace you need to get you through.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

I don’t care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is live in your own.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

Whatever I did lyrically or vocally, just to try and get better at everything.