Trying Quotes

22548 Trying quotes by 9956 unique authors

Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Yeah, I'm excited about it, my teammates are telling me to look at the basket, so that's what I'm trying to do. — Jason Kidd
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in general expect their… — Alfred Kinsey
I've got a funny old face. Someone described it once, and I think they were being kind, as character. But I know what they mean!… — Cate Blanchett
I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are… — Barack Obama
There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk… — Harvey Fierstein
I really think, without trying to give us credit that we don't deserve, I really feel like Kurt and Blaine are a modern version of… — Chris Colfer
We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty… — John C. Maxwell
The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until… — Richard P. Feynman
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. — Jane Fonda
For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the… — Erma Bombeck
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first. — Josh Billings
Set your target and keep trying until you reach it. — Napoleon Hill
Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to… — Pema Chodron
Happiness is the main object of our aspirations, whatever name we give to it: fulfilment, deep satisfaction, serenity, accomplishment, wisdom, fortune, joy or inner peace,… — Matthieu Ricard
You cannot live sheltered forever without being exposed, and at the same time be a spiritual adventurer. Be audacious. Be crazy in your own way,… — Arnaud Desjardins
Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first. — Brooks Atkinson
Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the… — Stephen Vizinczey
No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now. — Ziggy Marley
'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't… — Mike Gayle
A girl could be sitting on her computer, trying to get noticed by me, and not knowing she's the future Mrs. Justin Bieber. — Justin Bieber
The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague… — Hermann Hesse
The Principle of Power gives us just what we ask of it; if we only undertake little things, it only gives us power for little… — Wallace D. Wattles
Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these… — Vernon Howard
To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment. — Dogen

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