Quotes About Attempt

The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none more so than the most capable.

I suggest that it is the honesty of the attempt to recreate the forms and spaces visually without artistic editing that is one of the hallmarks of realist painting.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Could you attempt, at least, to make yourself presentable? I know this is a war, but the rest of us are trying to pretend it's a party.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

You can't win them all but you can try.

The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Failure is acceptable. but not trying is a whole different ball park.

If you never try, you will never know what it means to succeed.

If it's glorious to fail in great attempts, then #gloriousfail should definitely be a thing.

There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

De fleste af os har drømme, men lægger dem til side som umulige. Men Gud lægger aldrig et ønske i vort hjerte eller giver os tegn til at gå ud på vandet, med mindre han ønsker, at vi skal gå ud i tro og i det mindste gøre forsøget.

Before you can implement radical change, you have to let go of the things that will destine your attempts for failure, and make letting go a vital part of your culture

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

He paused, conscious that he had failed in his attempt to speak with the indifference of a man who longs for a change, and is yet too weary to welcome it.

To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men . However, he attempted it.

I am unalterably persuaded, that the attempt to oppress, degrade, impoverish, confiscate, and extinguish the original gentlemen, and landed property of an whole nation, cannot be justified under any form it may assume.

Baldwin, was awakened by the sound; but the most pressing danger could not prompt him to draw his sword in the defence of a city which he deserted, perhaps, with more pleasure than regret: he fled from the palace to the seashore, where he descried the welcome sails of the fleet returning from the vain and fruitless attempt on Daphnusia.

This attempt to isolate cell constituents might have been a failure if they had been destroyed by the relative brutality of the technique employed. But this did not happen.

Désespoir ! Ne pourrai-je même jouer ma vie ? ne pourrai-je tenter même le plus désespéré de tous les partis ??!

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

I always say that I'll have a go and see whether the poem works and if it does, then fine.