If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

I’ve really been trying to go back to when I was 18 and rediscover the things that drove me, and my passions. How do I get back to being that strong? Because I feel like as I get older, I’m not as fearless as I was when I was 18.

I’d rather be happy being myself than sad trying to please everyone else.

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don’t have a foundation, the roof isn’t going to stand.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It’s not hard. Character is doing what’s right when nobody’s looking.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ’s steps, and let the world say what it likes.

There are very few people that actually live their life in a Mother Theresa kind of benevolence. And even bad guys are often trying to be the “most right” version of themselves. So I’m trying to explore what basically makes these guys human.

I don’t know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it’s not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh.

When you speak directly at things and don’t say you’re going to try to do something or that you hope to do something, the universe will work with you. Think about it this way – a boomerang goes out and comes back to you if you throw it. If you throw it out at the universe, it will come back down to you on Earth.

I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!

When you’re on stage performing stand-up, things only happen one time. I’ve done bits where I improv a joke, and people are dying. The next show, I try to repeat it, I can’t do it. Because with the first audience that was our moment. It can’t happen the same way again. We were all there: a certain type of people were at that show and we all got it.

You’re trying to make someone wet their pants and you’re trying to make somebody crap in their pants. That’s the motivation of a comic. Who else has that power?

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

Small ball, spacing, shooting 3s, is something that everybody’s trying to do.

Anyone who’s trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.

Fate is a future you didn’t try hard enough to change.

Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.

Trying to comfort myself. I tell myself the world can’t be perfect.

You’re trying something new. That in itself is a reflection that you’re going in a good direction.

I don’t think you should feel too pressured about a mixtape. Just do what you want to do and show the music you want to show. You’re not trying to win something big with it.

Do what you want to try doing. Take whatever you get out of it and have fun.

I been buying a lot of 45s. Try to get a groove off of 45s cause its like they only press singles. Trying to get a break off that you gotta really be hunting for that sh… What Ill do is Ill look for a groove or something to start if off with but then I try to build around it. Try to make something out of it.

The best music comes from the heart, not from trying to please others.

I’m just a humble musician trying to make the best music I can.

I’m just a regular guy trying to make my dream come true like everybody else.

You can’t protect other people, however hard you try.

Although it’s good to try new things and to keep an open mind, it’s also extremely important to stay true to who you really are.

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we’ve been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It’s not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It’s misleading because it’s hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it’s not. The more you write, the better you’re going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.

I’d go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can’t fill because I don’t understand what this is. It’s like you’re given a job that’s beyond you. And it’s taken me years to realize what works in those big situations

Whenever you bring up women’s internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they’re trying to change the laws.

Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.

The ill-informed masses included her own family among their ranks, a family that specialized in being both inconvenient and asinine.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do

Everybody’s talking a lot in my ear, so it’s tough sometimes. I try to stay with my team in my bubble.

People say, ‘You slide too much.’ I try to change a bit, just to see the difference, and it’s very bad. The faster and easier thing is to slide. To me, it’s a gift, it’s natural. It may be different, but I’m me.

I just try to be relax, because I’m always been a relaxed person.

You will never influence the world by trying to be like it

I try my best for everything. If I don’t feel happy, I don’t do it.

I dont regret anything. I am proud to try a challenge even if I do not exceed.

Beware of those trying to impress you with confusing word salads.

When they don’t know you, when you don’t have credits and they’re thinking, ‘I don’t know this French guy,’ your first five minutes are trying to seduce them, trying to get them on your side. And it’s not easy.

Going into my 20s, I was uncertain, trying to figure out what my relationship to acting is.

That’s something that rationally and logically I can’t try to figure out, how somebody “transitions” so rapidly and so drastically, but I don’t worry about it now.

It is down to the manager what he wants to do in the transfer window. Us as players, we just have to focus on each game that comes along and try and do our best.

I am motivated by trying to win trophies.

God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down

We’re not always in the position that we want to be at. We’re constantly growing, we’re constantly making mistakes, we’re constantly trying to express ourselves and trying to actualize our dreams.

When I think of competition it’s like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.

I’ve been trying to write since 1998 after dropping out of Visual Communication from Loyola. My parents have been supportive

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.

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of not trying.

I try to eat super clean: No processed sugars, no corn syrups, nothing frozen in a box that you can microwave. If I read the ingredient label and I don’t know what something is, I assume it’s bad.

I’ve learned that you should only try to be better than who you were yesterday.

While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about

I’m Watching Freaks And Geeks, With The Trampoline On The Floor. I’m Trying To Cop The New McLaren With The Vertical Doors

As an opening batsman, it’s my responsibility to spend as much time in the middle as I can and try and get big scores in the first innings so that we don’t have to bat in the second innings.

As a team, you try to win – you try to push in as many overs you can – but that’s how it’s played.

One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.

Captaincy is a responsibility that I take seriously, and always try to lead by example.

I try to stay as calm as possible in pressure situations and trust my instincts.

A college degree is not essential, but if you’re already in college, and if it’s at all possible, you should definitely try to finish. In college, you have a very supportive community right there, and it can give you opportunities to try out new things.

I just try to speak passionately about things I’m involved in and moved by.

I never, my producer never, we never let myself just sing. We were always trying to get the perfect vocal.

I try to understand, but all I hear is a river of words, rushing and thundering and pushing me beneath the surface. Now and then a word I know darts up like a sparkling fish, but then it’s all dark moving water again.

No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems – of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.

I enjoy mediation. I think the artist’s position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that’s between two cultures or two thoughts. We’re always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

Writing is a form of resistance against oblivion

Even when candidates have degrees from Harvard and Yale, they try to run as the candidate of the common man.

He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve.

We’re trying to find areas of cooperation with Russia in the area of counterterrorism and the campaign against ISIS.

Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.

In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.

I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

Catholicism was trying to avoid hell, but Protestantism was trying to achieve heaven

Emerson lectured and wrote treaties and essays, and masses of clotted, cabbagey poetry. Reading him is like trying to hack your way through a swamp of creeping verbiage

If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn’t expecting it.

I’ve been trying to get cast as a lesbian for years.

I can’t just say one time of the year I’m going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.

I can’t sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

At some point all lies are brought to the surface and truth comes forth no matter how hard we try to hide it.

As a person, I’m just trying to be better than I was yesterday and continue to elevate.

The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude… men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.

It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn’t know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time

In the beginning, when I was doing my shows, I was incorporating a lot of Spanish, just trying to be a Latino comic instead of just a comic. Now I try to make the show as broad as possible… I don’t want to alienate people. I want to make it so everybody can follow along and everybody can relate.

He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

From the moment I wrote ‘Leaf Storm’ I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead – and find no one there.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

If you fall during your life it doesn’t matter because you’re never a failure if you try to get up

I like to help kids, work with kids in detention homes. Don’t tell a kid what’s right and wrong. He knows what’s right and wrong. Find out what his attitude and his aptitude are; try to help him where he wants to go

I’ve always lived by the creed that you’re never a failure in life when you fall as long as you try and get up

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass – which is better than trying to fill them.

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

I don’t like to try strange foods. I like to explore different foods, but if you ask me to eat crocodile or frogs… I’m like no. That’s where I draw the line.

I’m glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they’re lying.

Boia is trying to force Simon to talk. Nowak is trying to keep the exhibit a secret.

I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I’m trying to accomplish.

We’re trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.

I do like trying bold things such as styling, even usually.

At 22, there’s a lot of trying to figure out love, which at the end of the day, I’ve realized I’ll never figure out, though the process of trying is fun.

That’s what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.

I’m trying to find out NOT how Nature could be, but how Nature IS.

Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence—to sometimes try to do what I can

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people

There is no harm in dreaming of becoming the world’s best player. It is all about trying to be the best. I will keep working hard to achieve it but it is within my capabilities.

Lost in this young world, I’m just trying to navigate See the pie sliced, I’m just trying to grab a plate.

You have not failed until you quit trying.

I was taught to think about mission and people. Mission. What are you trying to accomplish? Don’t do anything until you know what the mission is. Drilled into our hearts and into our heads.

You don’t know what you can get away with until you try.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, “To whom did this thought arise?

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, ‘If I could pull this off, I can someday move to the back of the camera and stay there.’

I’m just here to open up doors for all these other cats out here that are trying to do the same thing, really.

If you’re trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

Let’s be realistic. Let’s do the impossible!

Above all, try to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

As kids we’re not taught how to deal with success; we’re taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?

It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I’ve never bought into – with any artist. It’s just not a real thing.

As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

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.

I’m ouI’m out here tryna find someone/ So the ring on my phone, ring on my fingert here tryna find someone/ So the ring on my phone, ring on my finger

It is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it

I like trying to get pregnant. I’m not so sure about childbirth.

I always felt like an entertainer and I knew I could get the crowd excited by doing little things and trying things differently.

Life’s a rollercoaster, and I’m just trying to keep my hands up and my lunch down.