Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

If the Deseret News is careful not to offend [Nazi] Germany, and I gather that it is falling backwards on the attempt, it is my… — Fawn M. Brodie
True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world — Patricia Hampl
One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to… — Bernard Crick
Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its… — Dennis Etchison
The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt… — Jerry Bridges
A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the… — Ravi Ravindra
The alternative to forgiveness, but by no means its opposite, is punishment, and both have in common that they attempt to put an end to… — Hannah
For me words still possess their primitive, mystical, incantatory powers. I am inclined to use them as part of an attempt to make my own… — Ingrid Bengis
A blanket attempt to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all. — Steve McConnell
Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should I? Should I not? Go forward? Go back? Success requires the emotional… — Andy Andrews
What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence,… — David W. Orr
Individuals who attempt to please and individuals who become angry both have authority issues. — Gary Zukav
The cure of the part should not be attempted without treatment of the whole. No attempt should be made to cure the body without the… — Plato
The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness. — John Steinbeck
Without making the fundamental choice to be the predominant creative force in your life, no matter what you do to attempt to benefit yourself or… — Robert Fritz
Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form of action or by preventing you from… — Chris Prentiss
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned… — Robert H. Schuller
The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy. Strictly… — Unknown Author
I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to… — Barry Goldwater
Now, when ordinary people attempt to find happiness, I am not sure whether the happiness is really happiness or not. I study what ordinary people… — Zhuangzi
This work is an attempt to understand the time I live in. — Albert Camus
All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make more… — H. L. Mencken
To find the best moves great Masters, with years of experience, engage in laborious research, and the moves thus found are blindly repeated by amateurs… — Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Everyday I attempt to consume 4,000 Calories and 200 grams of protein. I don't always reach that mark but when I go to bed at… — Robert Cheeke

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