Trying Quotes

Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.

Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.

It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

As far as cuisine is concerned one must read everything, see everything, hear everything, try everything, observe everything, in order to retain in the end, just a little bit.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.

The only reason why you are unhappy is because you are trying to be happy.

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Get in the game. Do the best you can. Try to make a contribution. Learn from today. Apply it to tomorrow.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

The important thing is to keep trying

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

Some people chase money. Some people chase fame. Some chase greatness - and that's what I'm trying to do.

Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.

Lots of people working in cryptography have no deep concern with real application issues. They are trying to discover things clever enough to write papers about

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.

Try to remember the reason you started riding a motorcycle in the first place. For me, it was a couple of things but mostly rebellion.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

You don't have to be satisfied with America as you find it. You can change it. I didn't like the way I found America some sixty years ago, and I've been trying to change it ever since.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

Loving you is what I’ve learned so easily but trying to forget you is the last thing I could hardly learn.

It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.

I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself. I'm not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.

God is more interested in what we are than in what we do. He looks for fruit; we try to produce works.

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

If you're not cheating, you're not trying!

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.

You are learning too much, remembering too much, trying to hard relax a little bit, give life a chance to flow its own way, unassisted by your mind and effort. Stop directing the river's flow!

How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.