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Quotes About Try

but it cannot be a mistake to have cared...it cannot be an error to have tried....it cannot be incorrect to have loved.
~ Nikki Giovanni
Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail.
~ Nora Roberts
It's the mark of a very, very young soul," Mr. Whittier used to say, "to try and fix the world. To try and save anyone from their ration of misery.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The World-Soul is sick, Harry, crazy-sick. And if we don't each do our part and try to get to the root of its pain and burn it out, then everything is for nothing.
~ Clive Barker
But then, in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.
~ Larry Niven
Let me persuade you then--oh, do let me persuade you," said the child, "to think no more of gains or losses, and to try no fortune but the fortune we pursue together.
~ Charles Dickens
I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
~ Grace Slick
I became a coach because I thought I could dominate the game with what I say, what I do, what we train and how I try to convince players.
~ Guillem Balagué
I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
~ Nathan Fillion
If you have got a dream and you've got ambition, then go for it. You know, unless you try, you'll never know.
~ Eddie the Eagle
My agent said, 'Jerry, Dancing With the Stars - they want you on there.' I said, 'Ain't no way. I'm not going to do that.' Then he came back to me again, and he kept putting pressure on me. I said, 'All right, I'll give it a try.'
~ Jerry Rice
I love the film route and I'm gong to try my hardest to stay on it.
~ Hailee Steinfeld
If I get too political or if I say things... the whole religious thing, which if you know my background, kind of baffles me anyway. I leave that to the people that are religious and that's their thing. I just try to steer clear of it.
~ Frank Mir
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.
~ Thomas Huxley
In TV, you get so many different opportunities, and especially, you get to try something different you don't get to do as a normal person, then great.
~ Rachel Riley
In film, you get the license to try and go for emotions that you normally try to keep away from you.
~ Alicia Vikander
I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
~ Lapo Elkann
As the cheering continued, Rhyme leaned forward and touched Milo gently on the arm. They're shouting for you, she said with a smile. But I could never have done it, he objected, without everyone else's help. That may be true, said Reason gravely, but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
~ Norton Juster
But I could never have done it,' he objected, 'without everyone else's help.' 'That may be true,' said Reason gravely, 'but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a question of what you will do.
~ Norton Juster
but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
~ Norton Juster
I suppose this means you can swim after all. Or am I supposed to tow you? If you really try, said Loaf, grinning, you might not die.
~ Orson Scott Card
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep.
~ H. M. Tomlinson
than picking a song. "Aren't you excited to try out?" I ask her. But before she can answer, Mr. Knight tells everyone
~ Laurie B. Friedman