Attempt Quotes
1586 quotes by 1221 authors
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This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
— David Platt
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These systems attempt to box God into a government confined within the perspective of man. Yet when humanity is used as the starting point for…
— Tony Evans
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When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
— Thomas Paine
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Sell the interview before you attempt to sell the product
— Frank Bettger
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Never not dare to hang yourself. That's the only way you grow in your profession. You must continually attempt things that you think are beyond…
— Charles Laughton
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All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature
— George Ade
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The tide of immigration in Canada has not been as great as along our frontier. They have been able to allow the Indians to live…
— Nelson A. Miles
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In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon…
— John Ruskin
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Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you…
— A. E. Hotchner
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All problems, depressions, wars, disasters, assassinations, all of them were planned, caused, instigated, and implemented by the International Bankers and their attempt to establish a…
— John F. Kennedy
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Everything has a cause.
— Swami Vivekananda
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The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring…
— Leslie Stephen
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Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.
— Gene Veith
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[Speaking of his experience in a concentration camp:] As we said before, any attempt to restore a man's inner strength in the camp had first…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Sunstein said government agents ‘might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts…
— Cass Sunstein
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Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a…
— Scott Jurek
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I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer…
— Arnold Newman
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In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt to explain and…
— Richard J. Foster
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