Trying Hard Quotes

• Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

  Wess Roberts

  Mistake, Failure, Trying

  Wess Roberts (2012). “Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun: 1,500 Years Ago Attila Got the Competitive Edge. Now He Tells You How You Can Get It, Too--His Way”, p.1, Dell

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• If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Failure, Trying

  "Fitness Superstar Jillian Michaels On Weight Loss, Healthy Eating & More!". Interview with Jessica Lipps, onmogul.com.

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• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

  T. S. Eliot

  Work, Poetry, Trying

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• Doing your best means never stop trying.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hard Work, Mean, Kids

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

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Trying, Trying Too Hard, Hard

  "Imperfection". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.

  Pete Rose

  Trying, Behinds, Remembered

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• The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

  Clayton Christensen

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Trying, Enough, Havens

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Trust Me on This”, p.53, Bantam

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• I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

  David McCullough

  Weed, Writing, Marijuana

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite.

  Leo Baekeland

  Trying, Different, Shapes

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• Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

  John Hickenlooper

  Running, Cities, People

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• For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.

  Julie Gold

  Trying, Calling, Hard

  Interview with Angela Page, www.wjffradio.org. June 24, 2000.

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• The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about.

  Jane Mayer

  Military, Thinking, Abuse

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• Advancement only come with habitually doing more than you are asked

  Gary Ryan

  Kids, Hard Work, Trying

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• It's not just how hard you try, it's how well you will succeed from trying hard.

  Miles Thompson

  Giving Up, Trying, Succeed

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• there’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and you can’t do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

  Pete Wentz

  Running, Differences, Making A Difference

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

  Andrew Bogut

  Basketball, Sports, Play Hard

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

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• I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I've got a war in my mind So, I just ride

  Lana Del Rey

  Summer, War, Night

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• If you try to do your best there is no failure.

  Mike Farrell

  Fall, Kids, Hard Work

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• 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.

  Charles M. Blow

  Soul, Trying, Rewards

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• If you don't fall down, you aren't trying hard enough.

  Tenley Albright

  Fall, Trying, Enough

  "Olympic Gold Medalist and Surgeon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 21, 1991.

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• But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.

  Chad Harbach

  Sports, Baseball, Errors

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