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Quotes About Trying

There are always two risks. There's the risk of not trying something new, and there's the risk of not trying it. . . . Either way, there's risk. And sometimes stepping out and trying something new is actually the less risky thing to do.
~ Rob Bell
Then it's a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes and trying any old thing.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Judging by the results so far, it had possibly been a bad idea to suggest a scientific approach to political problems, but on most days Frank was still glad they had tried it. Something had to be done. Although choosing which something remained a problem.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
~ Yoko Ono
Cowards and courage make for great conflict. Embodied within the statement above is the idea that imperfect heroes are the most satisfying because true courage is facing what you fear, trying even though the odds of failure are great. Internal
~ Debra Dixon
You deserve better. I can't promise you I'll stay around, not because I don't want to. It's hard to explain. I'm a fuckup. I'm broken, and no one can fix it. I've tried. I'm still trying. I can't love anyone because it's not fair to anyone who loves me back.
~ Jennifer Niven
The Inevitable While I was fearing it, it came, But came with less of fear, Because that fearing it so long Had almost made it dear. There is a fitting a dismay, A fitting a despair. 'Tis harder knowing it is due, Than knowing it is here. The trying on the utmost, The morning it is new, Is terribler than wearing it A whole existence through.
~ Emily Dickinson
You find your limits by going out and trying. We're just like anybody else in any other job. You just can't work 90 hour weeks. You can't do it. We can't sing seven days a week.
~ Kristian Bush
They said if I could deal with the pain, I should play. So, I did, and for some reason, I started hitting. It was a weird thing. I don't know if it was because I couldn't do too much, and I was just trying to stay up through the middle and not hurt myself.
~ Freddie Freeman
Sometimes I get caught in just trying to get assists, trying to help my teammates get a good shot, and I think I put myself in positions where I get turnovers or I force the issue.
~ Jeff Green
You know what I keep wondering?" Miranda's tone went even more serious. "I keep wondering if all those spirits think I'm the one who's lost." That not-quite-smile brushed his lips. "We're all a little lost. We're all trying to find something.
~ Richie Tankersley Cusick
To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. Nobody can...It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.
~ Rick Hamlin
To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.
~ Rick Hamlin
I hear the noise in his voice, and I hear a boy trying to scare the darkness away. I wish I could hear what happened next, but nothing did.
~ Rob Sheffield
Executive consumption was terribly trying, fantastically wearing. It was proper for a certain kind of man but perhaps he was not that kind.
~ Robert Sheckley
We've made the mistake of trying to copy the methodology of "success" rather than the process behind the methodology.
~ Don Cousins
Don't hang on to your failures, because you can always try again. Trying gives hope. Hope gives us life.
~ Tsem Tulku
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
~ Charles Lamb
I had been interested in trying acting, and, like, I went to school with actors and whatnot, and I was interested in the craft but didn't really push myself to do it.
~ Hunter Schafer
I'm really excited that the studio is trying, because when I began my career in the early '90s, late '80s, Disney was not something - though I respected it and liked what they were doing in those years - it's not like I thought I wanted to be a part of that studio right now.
~ Rich Moore
I knew I wanted to try comedy and acting. Even if I failed, at least I would have tried. It's better than never having tried.
~ Rob Riggle
I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
~ Robin S. Sharma
the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into the teapot.
~ Lewis Carroll
The vicar, whose name is Reverend Waite, leads us in prayers that all begin with 'O Lord' and end with our somehow not being worthy-sinners who have always been sinners and will forever more be sinners until we die. It isn't the most optimistic outlook I've ever heard but we're encouraged to keep trying anyway.
~ Libba Bray