Trying Quotes

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

Conflict is growth trying to happen.

Try to get inside the skins of others. Think how they feel, how they react, and guide your own conduct by that.

The environmental community has an opportunity to create and leverage partnerships with the development community on social issues, rather than trying to develop new expertise of its own.

I'm taking care of the children, doing a bit of cooking and trying to do a bit of DIY around the house. But that's not going too well.

I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.

We make the patterns on the computer, but we also paint them by hand - it's a combination of digital and screen-prints. I'm trying to do as much as I can myself in the studio.

You can test what we have talked about today. Just try two things. Listen for the whisperings of the Spirit and then commit to obey. . . . God will take advantage of that if you let Him

When you study the Tao Te Ching, you have to use your heart to try to imagine what Tao really is.

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

I don't feel that I view things with a pessimistic eye. I should try to say which way events will go rather than which way events should go. We have to be realistic.

Once you get an agent you're given an opportunity to try a little bit more. It's a really long ladder.

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.

I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual. Actually trying to deal with cold that can literally kill you is quite a different thing.

I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.

Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.

I try to get myself up and moving as early as possible. Optimum is to be on the treadmill while it is still dark outside.

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

Basically, men are afraid of women and can’t handle the fact that they came out of the same thing they spend the rest of their lives trying to get back into.

Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour of getting up.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let's try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying.

I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.

I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.

I'm not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing.

I'm not trying to amass people in the streets. I just want them to be more aware.

When the U.S. government stops wasting our resources by trying to maintain the price of gold, its price will sink to...$6 an ounce rather than the current $35 an ounce.

Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.

Often people try and just consider music as music, in a musical context. People seem to forget that music is not just audio material - it's also the artwork, the packaging it comes in.

I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.

I try stuff. I synthesize what's of value with some of the other things I have at my disposal.

Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

Poor people make a very poor business of it when they try to seem rich.

I try not to look at my schedule for the week because I'll get so overwhelmed. Every day, there are multiple things to be done and 10 things I don't end up accomplishing.

You're always going to make mistakes. That's life. You just want to grow from them and try to make as few as possible. That's why you do reach out and ask people for help, where needed.

There's a time I can recall Four years old and three feet tall Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar And both were out of reach

If there are issues, if there's wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior.

Haiti is the poorest country in our hemisphere. The earthquake and the hurricanes, it has devastated Haiti. Bill Clinton and I have been involved in trying to help Haiti for many years.

Today, you've got hedge fund billionaires aligned with Karl Rove, running ads against me to try to get Democrats to vote for you [Bernie Sanders]. I know this game. I'm going to stop this game.

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

Listening to what people in other countries are saying and trying to understand how they perceive their place in the world is essential to a future of peace and security at home and abroad.

The most important thing that each of us can do is to try even harder to see the world through our neighbor's eyes.

Learn from your mistakes, trying to figure out what the best way to go forward is.

I believe we have to take this step by step to try to reign in Iranian aggression, their support for terrorism and the other bad behavior that can come back and haunt us.