Trying
- Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.--William Faulkner
- Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.--Lee Iacocca
- Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.--Wess Roberts
- Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.--Albert Einstein
- Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.--Nannie Burroughs
- Better to strive and climb,
And never reach your goal,
Than to drift along with time--
An aimless, worthless soul,
Aye better to climb and fall
Or sow, though the yield be small,
Than to throw away day after day
And never strive at all.--Grace B. Hinkey
- Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end...because in the end, it shows you a whole new world Make an attempt..--Manoj Arora (From the Rat Race to Financial Freedom()
- Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle--he defeated the fear of trying.--Robert H. Schuller
- Concentrate on the essentials. We will then be accomplishing the greatest possible results with the effort expended.--Ted W. Engstrom
- Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there--or failing to get there.--Max Lerner ("Man's Belief in Himself" The Unfinished Country)
- Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.--Natsuki Takaya
- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.-- Samuel Beckett
- Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.--Unknown
- Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."--Erica Jong
- Expect the people you love to be better. It helps them to become better. But don't get upset when they fail. It helps them keep trying.--Anonymous
- For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.--T. S. Eliot ("East Coker" Four Quartets)
- How high could you go if you knew you wouldn't fall?--Anonymous
- How long should you try? Until.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine March 18, 2003)
- I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.--Tom Hopkins
- "I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything. "I will try" has performed miracles.--George P. Burnham
- "I can't" isn't a reason to give up, it's a reason to try harder.--Anonymous
- I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.--Diane Glancy ("Portrait of the Lone Survivor" Lone Dog's Winter Count)
- If you spend life trying to be good at everything you will never be great at anything.--Tom Rath (Strengths Based Leadership)
- If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They're afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don't "fail." You've "tried your best."--Jane Seymour
- In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.--David Viscott
- Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained.
Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.--Rumi
- Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.--Tennessee Williams
- The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.--Lloyd Jones
- Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.--Dale Carnegie
- Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.--Kathleen Winsor
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.--Mary Kay Ash
- Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.--Charles Simmons
- One must learn by doing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.--Aristotle (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
- Our doubts are traitors; and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.--William Shakespeare
- People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.--Edgar Watson Howe (Country Town Sayings)
- The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.--J.R.R. Tolkein (The Fellowship of the Ring)
- Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.--Napoleon Hill
- That man is blest who does his best and leaves the rest.--Charles F. Deems
- There is more fulfillment in life knowing that you tried, rather than settled without a fight.--Shannon L. Alder
- There is no failure except in no longer trying.-–Elbert Hubbard
- There is no journey upon earth that man may not make if he sets his heart to it. There is nothing that he cannot do, there are no mountains he may not climb, there are no deserts he cannot cross … if love leads him and he holds his life in his hand counting it as nothing, ready to keep it or lose it as Providence may order.--H. Rider Haggard (King Solomon's Mines)
- There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.--Winston Churchill
- To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.--David Viscott
- To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.--Sir William Osler
- To know that one has never really tried--that is the only death.--Marie Dressler (My Own Story)
- To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.--Samuel Johnson
- Try and fail, but don't fail to try.--John Quincy Adams
- Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.--W. Clement Stone
- Trying is always enough.--Patricia Briggs (Dragon Bones)
- Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two very different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually different and are experienced differently.--Stephen R. Covey
- Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The unwillingness to try is worse than any failure.--Nikki Giovanni
- What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.--Henry David Thoreau
- What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?--Robert Schuller
- When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.--Thomas Paine (The Rights of Man)
- When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.--Margaret Chase Smith
- The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.--Jim Rohn
- Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are--
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.--Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Ulysses)
- You can't always get what you want.
But if you try sometimes,
You just might find
You get what you need.--Mick Jagger and Keith Richards ("You Can't Always Get What You Want")
- You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.--Beverly Sills
- You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.--Marian Wright Edelman
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