Trying Quotes

It's better to go out like a man, trying, than to play it safe and get second.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

I've learned to trust myself, to listen to truth, to not be afraid of it and to not try and hide it.

Try a little tenderness.

Sometimes we're so busy trying to get things and at the end of the day, all we need is love.

I see a guy getting old. I try to not look in the mirror too much.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

Trying to be cool is the easiest path to mediocrity

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do

Once I'd chosen the songs, it seemed like it would just be a question then of recording them. But it's a case of trying to re-invent the songs; taking them in different directions.

I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity.

It hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world’s largest open-air prison.

I'm living such a lucky and blessed life and I'm trying my best to deserve it.

I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters.

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.

I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

I'm a decent cook, and I will try to cook anything. My only weakness is that I don't know servings - I only know how to make a lot.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

In acting, I always try to go back to what would actually be the real situation, the real human behavior in life.

I am not temperamental. I just know what I want and if I don't have it, I try to get it.

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring him enjoyment by being you.

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Americans need to see people who are honestly trying to learn from each other, even as we make our own points powerfully and fight for our own values and policies.

I know how devastated you must be to miss me, but leave a message, and I'll try to ease your agony

It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do.

We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it.

One of the biggest things I think we all can do is just try to live the best lives we can, and seek the best.

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

I think Americans are probably getting sick of us Australians trying to take their jobs.

The increasing desolation of nature, the exhaustion of resources, the uneasiness and disintegration of the human spirit, all have been brought about by humanity's trying to accomplish something.

Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.

The mindset of this [“Gangnam Style”] dance is dress classy, and dance cheesy,

When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Trying to force creativity is never good.

If you're trying to get someone who's sick with a fever off of a submarine and it's cold and raining outside, the only way in and out of a submarine, generally, is through a fairly narrow hatch.

I don't try to knock 'em out, I just know I will

Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.

If you don't fail on a regular basis, you are not trying hard enough.

The task I'm trying to achieve, above all, is to make you see.

Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.