Quotes about Trying

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
-Abraham Lincoln

"In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer."
-Mark Twain

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
-Mark Twain

"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
-Jack London

"I'm trying as hard as I can, and sometimes things don't go your way, and that's the way things go."
-Tiger Woods

"You never know what you can do till you try."
-William Cobbett

"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
-Charlotte Bronte

"I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping."
-Gaylord Perry

"When you try to formalize or socialize creative activity, the only sure result is commercial constipation. The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups."
-Charles Browder

"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive."
-Aldo Leopold

"Trying a case the second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal."
-Lloyd Paul Stryker

"By trying, we can endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
-Mark Twain

"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean."
-Mark Twain

"A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?"
-George Orwell

"God is really only another artist, he made the elephant, giraffe and cat. He has no real style but keeps trying new ideas."
-Pablo Picasso

"Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them."
-Henry Ford

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-George Bernard Shaw

"And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world."
-Anne Frank

"I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether."
-Socrates

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
-Michael Jordan

"They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever."
-Oscar Wilde

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

"Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny."
-Oprah Winfrey

"All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say 'Yo Goober! Where's the meat!?' I'm trying to impress people here, Lisa. You don't win friends with salad."
-Matt Groening

"Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be. If we do our best, we are a success. Success is the maximumutilization of the ability that you have."
-Zig Ziglar