Trying Quotes

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Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure. — William J. Clinton
Don't try to make me consistent. I am learning all the time. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try… — Wynn Bullock
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to… — Elsa Schiaparelli
I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but… — Silvio Berlusconi
Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social… — Tony Blair
Boredom is your window on the properties of time that one tends to ignore to the likely peril of one's mental equilibrium. It is your… — Joseph Brodsky
We who formerly hated and murdered one another now live together and share the same table. We pray for our enemies and try to win… — Justin Martyr
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before. — James Truslow Adams
People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not. — Giacomo Leopardi
Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders. — Elton John
One has to get through a big pile of mail every day. I don't pass my letters on to a secretary; rather, I try to… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001? — Mark Cuban
Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't. — Robert Wyatt
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. — Billy Sunday
A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father… — Sarah Ruhl
I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will… — Terence Rattigan
A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance… — Baruch Spinoza
To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The capacity for getting along with our neighbor depends to a large extent on the capacity for getting along with ourselves. The self-respecting individual will… — Eric Hoffer
I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards. — Albert Einstein
Always bear this in mind: Everything is in God's hands, and you are His tool to be used by Him as He pleases. Try to… — Anandamayi Ma
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying… — Malcolm Muggeridge
It takes an awful lot of time for me to write anything. I have endless drafts, one after another; and I try out 50, 75,… — James Dickey
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be… — Pearl S. Buck

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