Quotes
Quotes about Trying
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration--and regret. The weather is always doing something there; always attending strictly to business; always getting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. But it gets through more business in Spring than in any other season. In the Spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of twenty-four hours.
What ... I was trying to prove was the limitlessness of the creative artist's province, his capacity for imagining feelings and situations totally beyond his personal encompassment
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Genderplex: Trying to determine from the cutesy pictures which
That you may fail, is not sufficient reason for not trying.
We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.
The Senate trying to govern cyberspace is analogous to King George believing he could still govern the colonies even though he had never been there.
Genderplex: Trying to determine from the cutesy pictures which restroom to use.
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.
Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.
Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
By trying to make things easier for their children parents can make things much harder for them.
If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house, but here you are; you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.
Prince Charles and his son William worked off their Christmas dinner yesterday by trying to blast some small furry creatures to pieces. http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk.
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity--another man's I mean.
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater the effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shouldersâwhat would you tell him to do? I don't know. What could he do? What would you tell him? To shrug.
Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.
When somebody gives you a sexy look, you know they're trying. It's terrible! But when you smile, it's so much sexier!.
