Attempt Quotes

1586 Attempt quotes by 1192 unique authors

Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep… — Ralph Marston
Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom. — Leonard Ravenhill
Attempt what is not certain. Certainty may or may not come later. It may then be a valuable delusion. — Richard Diebenkorn
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry… — Wendell Berry
If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to… — Erich Fromm
You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the… — Plato
Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on. — Scott Turow
Anger is an uncivil attempt to make another feel guilty or a cruel way of trying to correct them. — Lynn G. Robbins
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on… — P.J. O'Rourke
Whatever you attempt, go at it with spirit. — David Starr Jordan
Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. — Seth Godin
Year in and year out, under the guise of the Ridiculous, we attempt the Sublime. — Charles Ludlam
For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire… — John Owen
No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul — Plato
I, in my own mind, have always thought of America as a place in the divine scheme of things that was set aside as a… — Ronald Reagan
The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish… — Ramana Maharshi
What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life. — Carl Jung
If you don't attempt things, you don't attract God. — Myles Munroe
What can separate us from the love of God? An attempt to separate us by death simply releases us from the imprisonment of this world. — T. B. Joshua
To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again. — Hermann Hesse
True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will. — Philip Yancey
Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt at the latter… — Edward Feser
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. — Nick Harkaway
Courage comes through achievement, but also through the attempt. — Chris Guillebeau
I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed and humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed,… — James Gilligan

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