Trying Quotes

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You spend 90% of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10% trying to convince the Lord that you're actually not… — Robert Breault
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The… — Laozi
Good-Bye is an easy word to say but try saying it to a friend. If I never knew you, I'd be safe, but half as… — Pocahontas
If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely. — John Ortberg
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river. — Deepak Chopra
You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may… — Maya Angelou
Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything… — Pablo Picasso
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it… — William Hazlitt
When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time. — E. W. Howe
However hard we try to bring in the new; it comes into being only in the midst of clumsy deals. — Peter Weiss
We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as… — Eric Hoffer
It is those pent-up, craving children who make all the wars and all the horrors and all the art and all the beauty and discovery… — Robertson Davies
There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union.… — Cesar Chavez
...So they are trying to do something about it. They are not doing it by seeking charity. They are not begging at the welfare office.… — Cesar Chavez
There are many other kinds of milk available. Why don't we try drinking rats' milk and dogs' milk? — Heather Mills
Please try not to be such a wiener-head. — Dave Barry
To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds. — William Hazlitt
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. — William Shakespeare

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