Keep Trying Quotes

• You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

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• Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.

  Napoleon Hill

  Goal, Trying, Target

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.189, Simon and Schuster

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

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

  W. Clement Stone

  Business, Entrepreneur, Trying

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• Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.

  Erma Bombeck

  Spiritual, Trying

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• You quit, you lose. You keep going, you may still lose. But, your ambition will never die.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Ambition

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• You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.

  Jon Stewart

  Careers, Trying, Looks

  Orange County Register, July 09, 1999.

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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  You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

  Beverly Sills

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

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• When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

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• Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

  Alison Bechdel

  Trying, Comic, Always Working

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• I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

  Richard Pryor

  Home, Thinking, Wife

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• 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.

  Cliff Burton

  Change, Trying, Fancy

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• They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.

  Billy Wilder

  Trying, Originals

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• We must keep on trying to solve problems, one by one, stage by stage, if not on the basis of confidence and cooperation, at least on that of mutual toleration and self-interest.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Confidence, Self, Trying

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.

  Lenny Bruce

  Live Life, People, Trying

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• Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

  Alberto Moravia

  Perfect, Trying, Problem

  "The New Yorker" Interview, May 7, 1955.

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• The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

  Cullen Hightower

  Mistake, Government, Aggravation

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• I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

  Elvis Presley

  Trying, World, Levels

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• Right now I'm just thinking about school and trying to get those grades and keep them up! In case I become a Norma Desmond when I grow up, I can have something to fall back on!

  Anna Chlumsky

  Growing Up, Fall, School

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• I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.

  Stephanie Mills

  Trying, Never Quit, Quitting

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• Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

  Kid Koala

  Trying Different Things, Littles, Pushing It

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• 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.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

  Mary Browne

  Spiritual, People, Trying

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