Quotes about trying

The distance doesn't matter it is only the first step that is difficult.

To try and fail is at least to learn to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

We were each of us trying trying to undo our own history while wishing for Superman.

I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much it's used the apocalyptic tone too much it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties.

Novelists have always had complete freedom to pretty much tell their story any way they saw fit. And that's what I'm trying to do.

Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.

We're trying to set up a movie for me in the near future. It's going to be similar to the story of how I got discovered. Kinda like my own version of '8 Mile.'

I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.

If you're a kid who is always on the outside hoping to be on the inside, you're watching a lot. You're trying to figure out how to become a normal person in a society that considers you weird.

Some officials overseeing local water systems have tried to go above and beyond what is legally required. But they have encountered resistance, sometimes from the very residents they are trying to protect, who say that if their water is legal, it must be safe.

My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

My dad keeps referring to me playing the piano when he's trying to teach me something in archery.

My future's about trying to be a better man.

No connection to the average voter - Clinton has an air of superiority. Despite her wide smile and pleasant appearance, she is envisioned as someone who is trying to hide something all the time.

The real business of life is trying to understand each other.

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Trying to make something as tricky as 'Room' really believable is extremely hard, and it largely rests with that relationship between the actors and the director, and the director and the crew.

In the pre-production process, I am emailing with the actors or jumping on the phone, and we're sort of figuring out who the characters are and trying to build the relationship dynamic and things like that. Then, also, I am outlining.

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.

I studied poetry in college and for a year in an MFA program. As time went on, my poems got more and more complicated. What I was really trying to do was tell stories.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools trying to demystify poetry.

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.

I realised I'd spent a lot of time in my poetry trying to find a way of talking about that whereof we cannot speak.

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that.

Men do not fail they give up trying.

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.

For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.

Why should we change onstage? We're not trying to be something big and fancy, it's just us, doing what we do, we'd like to keep it that way.

We are living in very challenging times. Pressured in the workplace and stressed out at home, people are trying to make sense of their lives.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said, 'Sure, every time.'

Putting 100% effort into "trying" will always make you successful. With that in mind it's important to remember that the effort part is never easy.

To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.

...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again.

Looking back and wondering if it could have worked eventually hurts more than trying and failing.

It’s good to remember that success may be just beyond the next failure, and you’ll get there, not because you’re destined to, but because you’re determined to.

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...

To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.

Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.

Try. The tiniest dream that you try to make happen, is worth more than the biggest dream you never attempt.

What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.

Don't be sorry;Don't you cry.It's enoughThat you tried.I love you,And that won't change.It's not your faultThings worked out this way

When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

Sometimes the best solution is to stop trying to change people.

It will get easier each time, I think. I hope. I just have to keep trying.

Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try.

There is no try. There is only do.

No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.

Win or lose, you are trying, that's what matters.

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

Failure is when you stop trying to do something.So, if you want to succeed.Don't stop trying.

Trying is for everyday, but success has it own time and date. That is why success is no different than a fish. The only way you catch it, is never stop fishing. The more you fish the better your chances. The more you try the better your chances of succeeding.

I don't so much mind looking back on having lost the election, or having been denied a role in the play, or having had my novel repeatedly rejected, or having been turned down for a date, or recalling laughter at my expense when I attempted some silly challenge.  Those things simply prove that I lived life.  What I do mind, however, is looking back on the lost opportunities where imagined concerns kept me from even trying—lose or win.  I've learned that there is no regret in a brave attempt, onl

It was quite a beautiful thing, the way we simply just came to be. With no effort or trying, just slowly finding each other’s hands in the dark. No chains or promises, just a simple sign of hopethat things will go on and get better.

To all what we have not tried, we would never wish to try if we knew that we would fail.

You will never achieve a goal by definition unless you try.

Creatives fail and the really good ones fail often.

Oh... I just leave it......Words have as much weight as trying to jump from the 123333333334 Floor without a parachute and to be alive.

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.

it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.

If the pieces do not fit into your puzzle...Try a different picture

Stop trying, & start trusting.

Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes!

The worst thing that can happen to us is that our wings melt and we fall into the sea.

I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.

If you never stop trying you'll never give up. If you never give up you'll never stop trying.

It's hard to show you that I tried unless you end up succeeding.

The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pint into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know.

God knows we all have to at least try to justify our behavior so we don't feel too guilty about it later.

The man spends half of his life trying, and the other half is preventing.

Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.

If life was perfect,how in the hell would v evr learn to depend on someone other dn ourselves?If anything,dt’s wat life’s taught me.D need to b perfect is stemmed in d very belief dt it’s actually something v cn achieve.Self-actualization —doesn’t exist.”“Does dt mean v don’t try then?” “No.” “It just means wen u reach end of ur rope,u shdn’t regret a damn thing,bt applaud urself for trying impossible

If you want to get what you haven’t gotten yet, then you have to do more than what you were doing before.

I climb mountains, while you keep sinking in sand.

Ignoring phone calls leads to a simple life with more free time. Ignoring emails works well also! I do both when I am trying to get things done.

[T]he whole point is the wishing and remembering--not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're askin. And when you ask, you're trying. And all anyone can do really is try, right?