Trying Quotes

Got a proper job at 28. Gave it up to try comedy at 38. Decided to get fit and healthy at 48. It's never too late. But do it now

I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating, but at the same time, I'm never quite satisfied with what I'm doing, so I'm always looking for the next thing.

Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.

There's the moon trying to look romanticMoon's too old that's her troubleAren't we all?

I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to paint them honestly.

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart] of rock music.

I'm not trying to make myself look like a girl because I'm not a girl anymore. I'm very happy about being a grown woman.

I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.

Without risk, faith is an impossibility.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows.

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

What I try to control ends up controlling me.

Never try to pull someone up who doesn't want it...they'll just pull you down.

We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

The biggest difference between people is between those who are trying to do the right thing - whether or not they succeed - and those for whom the only question is how much they can get away with.

Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.

Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction - going more classic, and retro, which is all coming back.

One must always try to be as radical as reality itself.

We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.

If my mind's not trying to fix something or create something, I don't know what to do. It just throws me off.

Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that.

Once you reach the top of the mountain and you want to climb the next one, you have to slowly make your way down that first mountain. Trying to jump from the summit would get you hurt or killed.

When the outlook isn't good, try the uplook - it's always good!

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it

Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take no for an answer.

At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.

I take vitamins daily, but just the bare essentials not what you'd call supplements. I try to stick to a vegan diet heavy on fruit, vegetables, tofu, and other soy products.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

Well they're pissed off and they're hungry. I was kind of busy trying not to get my brains eaten. They seemed pretty adamant about the brain-eating thing. Then they're going to IKEA, I guess

With Donald Trump, "what you see is just what you get." He is not trying to be politically correct - he doesn't care.

I was always really shy so I'd never try to get a guy's attention.

I'm trying to change the world.

If I never am better then Kanye, in my brain, I'm always going to be trying to be, forever and ever until the day that I die.

Don't fool people to think you are better than who you are. Instead of trying to act changed, pray that you will be changed.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

Listen real hard to the smartest guy in the room before you go trying to prove how smart you are.

There have been situations where the people you're around have one vision for you, and it's like trying on a jacket that doesn't fit.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.