Trying Quotes

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

If at first you do succeed, try something harder.

I do small things. I try to do good things every day.

I surround myself with a talented group of people that are opinionated and interesting. I try to remain very open to what others have to say.

If you don't succeed at first, try pitching.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you.

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

Don't try to blame the pain on anyone. Blaming others won't erase the pain.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

We were trying to increase the conflict that was already happening... we felt that we would take the conflict to so high a level that some change had to come.

If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start again.

Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

I try all things, I achieve what I can.

I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.

It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself.

The whole key of the profitable everyday living will be to discover out what's one's future to try and do, and after that do it.

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.

I have noticed several times that people don't think I know how to behave even when I'm trying as hard as I can.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

I don't think anyone loses by trying to be loyal to their dreams.

As an actor, I usually try and keep my motivation within the context of what the character is going through.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

A lot of times I did lose yards on a run, but it wasn't for lack of trying.

If you really think the environment is less important than the economy try holding your breath while you count your money.

If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it's such an extraordinary part of our lives.

I'm still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport.

I try to feed my hunger rather than my appetite.

I'm involved in Project ALS which is trying to get money for stem cell research. That's one I've been pretty involved with because if you can cure that, you can cure so many other diseases.

You have to sometimes just run with the problem rather than trying to solve it with hi-tech wizardry and lots of planning.

I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.

Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters.

That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.

Recently, I kind of found that if I just step into my own skin and relax and just walk like I'm just walking down the street, it always looks better than if you try too many cool moves.

We have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.

September tries its best to have us forget summer.

I learned that the world doesn't want to be saved, and it will f**king punch you in the face if you try.

Trying to obey and serve God before we've come to love Him can be exhausting.

The goal is to avoid mediocrity by being prepared to try something and either failing miserably or triumphing grandly.