Trying Quotes - Page 3

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

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Failure, Learning From Mistakes

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

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• The Zen way of calligraphy is to write in the most straightforward, simple way as if you were a beginner, not trying to make something skillful or beautiful, but simply writing with full attention as if you were discovering what you were writing for the first time; then your full nature will be in your writing.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Beautiful, Time, Nature

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life, a new personality. I guess it's part of growing up; it's also an attempt to reinvent myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Growing Up, Struggle

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• As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.

  William James

  Nice, Decision, Lambs

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• You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Courage, Women, Failure

  Rosalynn Carter (2016). “First Lady from Plains”, p.45, University of Arkansas Press

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

  Wess Roberts

  Mistake, Failure, Enough

  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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• 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, Experts

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• Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Cheer

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• There is no failure except in no longer trying.

  Chris Bradford

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.

  Frank Oz

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• O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.

  Abu Bakr

  Work, Men, World

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• If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance

  Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Goal, Target, Keep Trying

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

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  Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

  Barry Goldwater

  Marriage, History, Wife

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• No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Political, Politics

  In J. B. MacMaster 'History of the People of the U.S.' (1883-1913) vol. 2, ch. 13, p. 586

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• To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Conquer

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.343

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• We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

  Barack Obama

  Time, Ideas, Perfection

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• Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Giving Up, Don't Ever Give Up, Not Giving Up

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• What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?

  Benjamin Spock

  Peace, Children, War

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson

  Matt Groening

  Funny, Life, Lessons

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• Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.

  Mother Teresa

  Encouragement, Failure, Community

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.45, New World Library

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• Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Dream, Failure

  "Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do!". Book by Robert H. Schuller, 1983.

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