Trying Quotes

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • May
  • Stop

• We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Band
  • Focus

• My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Children

• may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Great
  • May

• As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Up
  • Different
  • Fun

• After a year and six months, it's no longer me that you want. But, I love you so much it hurts. Never mistreated you once; I poured my heart out to you. Let down my guard, swear to God. I'll blow my brains in your lap, lay here and die in your arms. Drop to my knees and I'm pleading; I'm trying to stop you from leaving. You won't even listen, so...

  

  Eminem
  • God
  • Heart
  • Stop

• Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Sometimes
  • Perceive
  • Compass

• If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Good
  • Mother
  • Today

• The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers' fear of overloading. He defined the sound that guitarists spend the rest of their lives trying to get.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Fear
  • Rest
  • Sound

• We not trying to do what everybody else is doing.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Trying
  • Doing
  • Everybody

• Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable, does it follow that we ought not to try at least to mitigate it? It is precisely because the force of things tends always to destroy equality that the force of the legislature must always tend to maintain it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Practice
  • Equality
  • Abuse

• If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

  

  Little Richard
  • Up
  • Hate
  • Succeed

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

  

  Alberto Moravia
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Perfect

• The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Art
  • Business

• It's not like I go out on the field thinking that I'm 5-6 and I'm the smallest guy out there. I'm just trying to help my team win games.

  

  Jose Altuve
  • Thinking
  • Help
  • Guy

• Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Women
  • Why
  • Party

• Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Perfect
  • Design
  • Plan

• It is not at all an idle matter trying to define what a human being is.

  

  Primo Levi
  • Trying

• I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways[.] That's what I'm trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Time
  • Done
  • Goals

• I try to come in with a focus to stop my man and win the game. I'm always trying to be ready to catch them off their strides by being physical enough without getting fouls.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Game
  • Stop
  • Focus

• If the future's looking dark, We're the ones who have to shine. If there's no one in control, We're the ones who draw the line. Though we live in trying times, We're the ones who have to try. And we know that time has wings, So we're the ones who have to fly.

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Trying
  • Shine
  • Wings

• Its easy to have kids, people try to scare you into thinking "oh its hard to have kids" Its not. I have two, and I have no idea where they are right now. Kids are adorable, someone will always take care of them.

  

  Dan Cummins
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Government

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