Quotes About Attempt

Wise are you, indeed," the fox said, "to know what is not possible before you have made the attempt.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

What isn't tried won't work.

Truly times must be out of joint, when only asses have any power of action left, and those who have a little more intelligence use it to doubt everything, and to persuade themselves that it is not worth while to attempt anything.

Call tried to call

Trying is the first step towards failure.

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

Garfield's assassination attempt made the whole nation care.

A drawing is an autobiographical record of one's discovery of an event - either seen, remembered or imagined. A 'finished' work is an attempt to construct an event in itself.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

Any attempt to dilute my support for Sen. Obama will not succeed.

The only real failure in life is the failure to try.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

You never know just what you can do until you try.

If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?

in every created thing, whether it is alive or whether is what we usually call inanimate, there is an attempt to communicate, even among the totally silent. There is a question being asked, a different question for every entity, which for the most part will never be put into words, even by those who can speak.

Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might win / By fearing to attempt.

Falling on your face in public might be embarrassing, but not making the attempt at all is an even bigger failure.

It's hard to answer a question you haven't been asked. It's hard to show you tried unless you end up succeeding.

It's hard to show that you tried unless you end up succeeding.

Want costs you nothing, unless you try to spend it.

It seems frankly remarkable that anyone anywhere ever attempted anything.

nothing beats a fail but a try.

The easiest way to hide a relationship is not to attempt to hide it.