Trying Quotes · Page 111

The pressure of trying to buy presents for other people shakes me to my very core.

— CMAT

I'm not afraid to look stupid and I'm not afraid to look like I'm trying too hard.

— Aldous Harding

In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

— Kathy Sierra

Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

— Dag Hammarskjold

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

— Diana Wynne Jones

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

— Robert Harris

You think it's going to be easy? Forget about it! Don't even try to be successful!

— Eric Thomas

Stop trying to fit [Christ] into your life; instead, build your life around [Him].

— Leslie Ludy

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

— Ridley Scott

Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

— Ramana Maharshi

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

— Orison Swett Marden

Voters seem to understand what a big waste of time trying to change Washington is.

— Tina Brown

I'm always so excited about what I do that I try to get everyone to feel that way.

— Missy Franklin

As a therapist, I am a companion. I try to help people tune into their own wisdom.

— Virginia Satir

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up.

— Jean Paul

I have a black sense of humor. You try living my life, see what color yours turns.

— Karen Marie Moning

All I know is, I'm trying to do things that are a little different whenever I can.

— Laurence Fishburne

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

— Lane Kiffin

I need to try to get a lot of things going 'cause you never know what's gonna hit.

— Ken Marino

All I can do is try to create my own brand and have people appreciate me for that.

— Kevin Hart

There's a small island, inhabited in the South Pacific that I will try to swim to.

— Peter Arnett

I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.

— Jack Dee

Life is all about finding challenges for yourself that you want to try to achieve.

— Dominic Monaghan

I'm always trying to come down with a win. That's what matters to me and my squad.

— Kawhi Leonard

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

— Euripides

The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.

— Sean Patrick Flanery

I just try to focus on the basketball game and not get caught up in all the media.

— Lamar Odom

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

— Oliver Sacks

I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.

— Iggy Pop

Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.

— Alicia Keys

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

— Oscar Wilde

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

— Martin Luther

But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.

— Cinda Williams Chima

“Today's struggle is tomorrow's strength, today's setback is tomorrow's comeback.”

— Amit Kalantri

Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We're trying to improve the consumer financial marketplace one American at a time.

— Richard Cordray

I hope everybody out here is supporting hip-hop and trying to make it continue on.

— Big Daddy Kane

Don't spend all your time trying to win over your critics. Just run your own race.

— Joel Osteen

You can't lose the essence of a song. I try to enhance it more than anything else.

— Tom Jones