Trying Quotes

The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. Originally I was not writing songs for myself. Songwriting is my gift from God.

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God.

You are so used to the support of concepts that when your concepts leave you, although it is your true state, you get frightened and try to cling to them again.

Don’t keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!

I just try to show everything I represent and I represent God so I want to put that in my music.

Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.

Too often, parents force their kids into becoming something they want them to become rather than trying unpack the treasure chest God wants them to become.

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

Accepting God’s acceptance of me doesn’t mean I’m going to stop trying. It means I’m going to stop trying out. And I am intentionally redirecting my obsession.

If you're an unattractive girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, forget it. If you are a beautiful girl who's trying to be beautiful with Botox, you will look like you're angry all the time.

You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.

This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.

I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.

More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.

I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.

Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth.

In 1823, William Webb Ellis first picked up the ball in his arms and ran with it. And for the next 156 years forwards have been trying to work out why.

The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.

Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through.

I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.

Trying will do anything in this world.

Use a screwdriver instead of a hammer. Try to untighten the nut with your hand. Utilize the path of least resistance first.

Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.

I try not to make plans. God always laughs at your plans.

If I were a girl for a day I would try to sleep with Tom Kaulitz.

Always stay focused. Always give and try your best.

I'm working on this fashion line that's all inspired by Vietnam. I'm Vietnamese so a lot of the clothes are inspired by Vietnamese culture, and I'm trying to mix that with the streetwear style.

I was trying to be an entrepreneur at seven years old.

If you don't want my God here, you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money...

When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

With my work, I try to delve into the several layers that compose the edifice of history, to take the shadows cast by this model of uniform development to try and understand what lies behind it.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

A transvestite spends her entire life trying to look as feminine as possible and I have clearly spent mine celebrating my masculinity.

When you are through trying to improve, you are through.

If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

The Internet has a lot of solutions. I found an insane way to trap chipmunks - it was too crazy not to try.

Once Congress establishes that one person can live at the expense of another, it pays for everyone to try to do so.

Try not to let your emotions affect your judgement.

Have a philosophy of investment and try to follow it.

You can't make a woman happy. That's like trying to cure a fatal disease. The goal is to treat the symptoms so you can comfortably live with the illness.

If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.

The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear.

I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.

Try to be better than yourself.

Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.

I had never considered marriage, but I had an open mind, and I was to learn after a brief try at it that most open minds should be closed for repairs.

I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood.