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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• At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

  Laura Linney

  Teacher, Book, Writing

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• I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

  Ryan Lochte

  Rocks, Car, Littles

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• When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.

  John Lydon

  Moving, Writing, Hands

  Interview With Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 12, 2010.

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• I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Running, Mean, African American

  "Wynton Marsalis gives spirited take on jazz with 'Abyssinian Mass'". Interview with Jeremy D. Goodwin, www.bostonglobe.com. October 24, 2013.

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• As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there you have to produce that yourself.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Giving, Listening, Actors

  "Q&A with 'Orphan Black' Star Tatiana Maslany". BBC America Interview, www.bbcamerica.com. April 8, 2013.

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• There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Stupid, Kids

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Success, Fun

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.69, Prabhat Prakashan

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• The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Health, Science, Mind

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• My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Eye

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• I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

  Naomi Campbell

  People, Want, Faces

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• I'm always trying to do stuff I haven't done before or challenge myself so I'm not resting on my laurels all of the time because if I just found my little niche and never left it, I'd be pretty boring, I think.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Thinking, Challenges, Littles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

  Michael Caine

  Actors, Lasts, Admirer

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. April 30, 2010.

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  Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

  Tim Burton

  Children, Ambition, Saws

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• I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

  David Duchovny

  Perfect, Trying, Comedy

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• My father was an army champion boxer... in the British army. And so he loved boxing and talked it up as a sport. But then when my brother and I were beating the crap out of each other, he was always trying to tone it down. But I am a fan of boxing.

  Hugh Jackman

  Sports, Brother, Father

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• When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

  Colin Greenwood

  Trying, Succeed, Aim

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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