Trying Quotes

So there I was lying in the gutter. A man stopped and asked '"What's the matter? Did you fall over?" So I said "No. I've a bar of toffee in my back pocket and I was just trying to break it."

The feminine in each of us longs for deeper love and tries to find it in intimate relationship, family, or friends.

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.

If you're trying to make someone happy, you gotta try and make them happy.

If the whole is to be Art, the parts must not try to be.

It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday

Managing by trying to be liked is the path to ruin.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

I don't think you should ever give up on trying to push the bar a little bit higher.

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

That's when you've got to grit your teeth and hang in there and try and find a way to win when you're not playing your best tennis - that's what I can be proud of

Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.

As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.

When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.

I always try to look at conflicts from as many different angles as is humanly possible, and in a lot of ways there is no one answer.

I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.

I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

Listen, three eyes," he said, "don't you try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.

As teachers, we must constantly try to improve schools and we must keep working at changing and experimenting and trying until we have developed ways of reaching every child.

I don't work so hard at trying to get every song to be three-dimensional and mean so much. I just want to breathe, right now, with the music.

The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary.

I’m the youngest in my family and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh.

I have a tendency, more than most other physicists, to try to figure out everything all at once, before I publish. And even to try to figure out everything in my head, without pencil and paper.

I always try to keep in mind the I do all that training for a reason, which is to compete to the best of my ability.

The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.

I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.

Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.'

My love is bigger than a Cadillac, I try to show you, but you drive me back.

When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.

If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money.

When God promises, He's not saying, I'll try. He means, I can and I will.

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Any company trying to compete...must figure out a way to engage the mind of every employee.

One reason why people are unable to understand great Christian classics is that they are trying to understand without any intention of obeying them.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

The day my child tries a celery is the most stressful day of my life.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Whenever I play with him , I usually try to make it a foursome - the President, myself, a paramedic and a faith healer.

Selling is the easiest job in the world if you work it hard-but the hardest job in the world if you try to work it easy.

Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior.

The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.