Quotes About Attempt

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

He wanted to go on for hours. He wanted someone to listen to him and to understand that speech wasn't just about communicating ideas or opinions. Sometimes, it was about trying to convey whole human lives. And while you knew even before you opened your mouth that you'd fail, somehow the trying was what mattered. The trying was all you had.

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

It won't work, Robert," Rybar repeated, "but that doesn't mean we don't have to try.

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

Each of us is trapped in a place, a time and a circumstance and our attempt to use our mind to transcend those boundaries are more often than not ineffective.

To attempt to superimpose its views through the exercise of force, is seldom the part of intelligence; it is frequently the part of ignorance.

It's not new to attempt to vilify the minority that speaks about their oppression. That's not a new thing.

Almost is always the hardest, isn't it? Almost getting something.

Won't know unless you try

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

A trial was a stupid word, considering that an attempt was never good enough: you were supposed to toe the line, period.

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

It sometimes occurs to me that everything I do is a substitute for something else, and that every venture I embark on is a botched attempt at reparation for a thing done or left undone—don't ask me to explain it.

Never be scared to fail, be scared not to try.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.

Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.

I actually did try to emigrate to Australia a long time ago.

You just need to go in, try your best and you just need a bit of luck at the same time.

Finally, even after Lee surrendered at Appomattox, a small group of Democrats made a last-ditch attempt to save their cherished institution by assassinating Lincoln.