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Quotes About Attempt

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.
~ Amelia Barr
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.
~ Frank Kermode
No one knows what he can to do until he tries.
~ Publilius Syrus
A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.
~ Anonymous
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
~ Marie Dressier
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
~ Norman MacEwan
Half the things that people do not succeed in are through fear of making the attempt.
~ James Northcote
Nothing at all will be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson
The only failure is not to try.
~ George Clooney
You never know what you can do till you try.
~ William Cobbett
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
~ David Viscott
You can't learn if you don't try.
~ David Green
Fake news was manufactured to the tune of millions of dollars in an attempt to discredit my story.
~ Clare Rewcastle Brown
I was never necessarily conscious of my failures when I attempted something and it didn't work out, because I feel like I'm so in tune with my purpose I never necessarily acknowledge that.
~ Bibi Bourelly
Yes. I tried to use the same technique with you. I didn't want to pass out.
~ Lynsay Sands
Ve?i je grijeh bio ne pokušati nego ne uspjeti.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
And we have seen how Rousseau's insistence on creating a world that makes sense ultimately vitiates his attempt to educate a child for a world that does not.
~ Susan Neiman
The reality of suicide is far different from the fantasy. Most suicidal thinkers romanticize their death by suicide, failing to realize that any suicide gesture or attempt can result in permanent brain, kidney, or liver damage, loss of limbs, blindness, or even death.
~ SUSAN ROSE BLAUNER
Something I have never mastered. Something I've never even tried to master.
~ Susanna Moore
He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.
~ Swami Vivekananda
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.
~ Michio Kaku
'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
~ Feist
My attempt at really doing classic sort of songwriting is Shins stuff.
~ James Mercer
It is ridiculous to think we can erase racism in South Africa, but through theater there can be a genuine attempt to move on with our lives and build a better country.
~ John Kani