Attempt
The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.
Author: Viktor E. FranklTopics: Art of living, Attempt, Develop, Humorous, Mastering, Sense of Humor
The next attempt may not be perfect, but the second is better than the first, and the third is even better than the second.
Author: J-HopeTopics: Attempt, Development, Famous, Growth, Improvements, Inspirational
All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Attempt, covering, Exhibiting, Famous, Feelings, Life, Literature, Meaningful
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
Author: George Haven PutnamTopics: Acceptance, Attempt, Enthusiast, Execution, Experiences, Famous, Fancies, Feelings, Heaven, Heavenly, Inspirational, Liberate, Liberates, Life, Meaningful, Oppression, People, Positive
The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.
Author: Gail CarrigerTopics: Attempt, Cause, Distress, Famous, Guiding, Nonsense, Rule, Universe, World
The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don’t know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.
Author: Ryan GoslingTopics: Attempt, Capture, Famous, Love, Meaningful, Ourselves
People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‘Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
Author: Kanye WestTopics: Attempt, Everybody, Famous, People, Please, Positive aspects, Positive Attitude, Positive perspective, Think, Thinking, Trying
Any attempt to wriggle, especially from leadership candidates who campaigned to leave the EU by focusing on immigration, will be unacceptable to the public.
Author: Theresa MayTopics: Attempt, Campaigned, Candidate, Famous, Focusing, Immigration, Leadership, Leave, Meaningful
The internet makes it much easier for politicians to communicate directly with voters – think of the interest when David launched Webcammer, or Tony Blair’s rather embarrassing attempt to catch up on YouTube
Author: Theresa MayTopics: Attempt, Communicate, Directly, Easier, Embarrassing, Famous, Internet, Meaningful, Politicians, Voters, YouTube
Whenever A attempts by law to impose his moral standards on B, A is most likely a scoundrel.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Attempt, Famous, Law, Moral, Scoundrels, Standards
Cannibalism is a Western, white imposition. A retrospective racism. Tribal memory, collective dreams and wishful thinking should, if not silence, then at least reduce to a tearful academic whisper any attempt to discredit the lives of Indians. Haven’t they suffered enough?
Author: A. A. GillTopics: Attain, Attempt, Dream, Dreamer, Imported., Imposition, Reduced, Reduction, Silence, Silent, Suffer, Sufferable, Wishful thinking
In England, we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Attempt, Century, Comfortable, England, Famous, Fifty years, Perception, Relying, Time-lag
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forwardsiscou
Author: Thomas A. EdisonTopics: Attempt, Discarded, Discouraged, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Growth, Inspirational, Learning, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Progress, Steps, Success, Wrong
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Topics: Anything, Anytime, Attainment, Attempt, Courage, Course, Course of action, Facing Fear, Fact, Life Cycle, Life Experiences, life lesson, People, People Respect, People’s Opinions
Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest.
Topics: Attempt, Attend, Attendance, Clear, Clear Thinking, Complex, Complex experience, Diverse, Diverse Approaches, Explain, Explanations, Later, Leads, Manifest, Manifestations, Manipulating, Tend, Tendency
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions–as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Topics: Attainment, Attempt, Expenditure, Experiencing, Failure, Question, Questioning
South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner.
Author: Robert MugabeTopics: Attempt, Black, Dead, Famous, Foreigner, Live, Simply, Statue, Stone
How many things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Author: Robert FrostTopics: Attempt, Fail, Famous
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Author: Robert A. HeinleinTopics: Annoys, Attempt, Famous, Teach, Time
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn’t want to chance ruining the machine.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Attempt, Better, Chance, Drugs, Famous, Machine, Mind, Understand
The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.
Author: Ramana MaharshiTopics: Attempt, Famous, Kill, Meaningful, Mind, Source
Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Topics: Attachment, Attainment, Attempt, Decide, Decision, Relations, Relative, Skill, Skill Development
Life itself has no rules—that is its mystery and its unknown law. What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.
Author: Carl JungTopics: Attempt, Famous, Feelings, Important, Imposed, Law, Law of gravity, Life, Meaningful, New knowledge, New life, Rule, Rules to live by, Solving, Something
Under the attempt to perform the impossible, there sets a general disintegration
Author: Bob UeckerTopics: Attempt, Attentions, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, General, Impossible, Lesson, Letting, Life, Meaningful, Perfectly, Performance, Under, Underdeveloped
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Attempt, Everything, Evil, Little, Progress, Repress
Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: AIM, Attempt, Failure, Fear, Glorious
Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.
Author: Ayn RandTopics: Attempt, Emotional, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Process, Rational, Reality
People who try to commit suicide don’t attempt to save them! China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.
Author: Mao ZedongTopics: Attempt, Commit, Famous, Meaningful, Nation, People, Populous, Suicide
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Attempt, Famous, Glory, Goal, Inspirational, Lies, Meaningful, Reaching
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes, SrTopics: Achieve, Answer, Attempt, Existence, Object, Question
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Author: AristotleTopics: Attempt, Excellence, Famous, Habit, Life, Meaningful, Won
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
Author: Bette DavisTopics: Attempt, Impossible, Improve, Work
What is not yet done is only what we have not yet attempted to do.
Author: Alexis de TocquevilleTopics: Acceptance, Attempt, Attentions, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
I do not steal victory
Author: Alexander the GreatTopics: Attempt, Attentions, Attitude, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life
There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was.
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Acceptance, Alive, Attack, Attempt, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Finding, Happen, Happy, Inspirational, Life, Little Things, Live, Meaningful, Originality, Outcome, Work
Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden
Author: AesopTopics: Acceptance, Attempt, Big things, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Hidden, High, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it
Author: Albert SchweitzerTopics: Acceptance, Attempt, Attentions, Better, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Research, Resist, Resources, Respect, Responsibilities, Tempt, Willing, Wisdom