Trying Quotes - Page 2

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

  Ronald Osborne

  Motivational, Wrestling, Risk

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• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Kids

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• Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.

  James Cook

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Change, Travel

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• Above all, try something

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Hope

  Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

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• There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Best Effort

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• You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Profiles in Courageous Manhood”, Albury Pub

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• 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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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

  Tupac Shakur

  Dirty, Naughty, Nasty

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

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• You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather.

  Frank Skinner

  Life, Weather, Funeral

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• I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, President, Each Day

  Gene Griessman, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Hurt, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 23, 2014

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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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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

  John Steinbeck

  Dream, Writing, Excellence

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• If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

  Woody Allen

  Failure, Learning From Mistakes, Failing

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• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Running, Acceptance, Elephants

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

  Alanis Morissette

  Scary, Quality, Spontaneous

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• 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.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

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• Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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• Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

  Henry Miller

  Friendship, Power, Appreciate

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.28, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Cute

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man". Book by William Hermanns, p. 143, 1983.

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