Always Trying Quotes

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  Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  B. F. Skinner

  Education, Perseverance, Giving Up

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• Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

  Vernon Howard

  Break Through, Mind, Hot

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• I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don't come along every day.

  Linda Hunt

  People, Size, Unusual

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• I'm always trying to remember that kindness goes a long, long way. I think that's something that people will definitely take out of this film as well.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Kindness, Thinking, Long

  Source: nerdist.com

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• I'm very 'spur of the moment'. I'm always trying to think of fun things to do to create a memory.

  Josh Hartnett

  Fun, Memories, Thinking

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• I'm always trying to swim to new ground.

  PJ Harvey

  Swim, Trying

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• When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

  Florence Welch

  Queens, Singing, Palaces

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• I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

  John C. Reilly

  Views, People, Worry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Book, Ghost Stories

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• I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Touching, Heartbreaking, Unconventional

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• God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

  Saint Augustine

  Hands, Giving, Good Things

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• You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

  Tom Robbins

  World, Said, Trying To Change

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• Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

  Charles Baxter

  Mean, Quality, Ease

  "The Feast of Love: A Novel". Book by Charles Baxter, May 1, 2001.

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• I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Dresses, Ifs

  Interview with Maximilian Rosenbluth, kmh.gallery. April 2, 2012.

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• I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  People, Interesting, Really True

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• What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Lasts, Wells, Consumers

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• I was born a Love Goddess. My parents, Caesar and Joanne, always told me that I was a little Goddess and Petite Flower. I was a Petite Flower, and I had all these brothers who were always trying to boss me around. I told them, "No. You must kiss my hand or kiss my feet". That's how I became the Goddess.

  Judy Tenuta

  Brother, Flower, Kissing

  Source: popgeeks.net

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• Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Fear, Home

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

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• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

  Alice Walker

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

  C. S. Lewis

  Player, Castles, Bishops

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• I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

  Lady Gaga

  Men, Want, Cherish

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• homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Missing Someone, Long, Mind

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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