Keep Trying Quotes - Page 11

• Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

  Zig Ziglar

  Trying, Mountain, Valleys

  Ziglar, Zig (1985). “Steps to the Top”, p.220, Pelican Publishing

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• I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our politics, which explains why we're not doing anything about the former.

  Bill McKibben

  Trying, Planets, Former

  Source: www.wolverinefarm.org

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• When things go right (and they go right a lot - you just got to keep trying) there is nothing to really laugh about.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Laughing, Trying

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I keep trying to tell people that Los Angeles is already the largest Indian city in the U.S., that there are Toltecs playing Little League baseball in Pasadena, Mayans making beds at the Marriott in Westwood, and Chichimecs driving buses in L.A. Los Angeles is a majority-Indian city.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Baseball, Cities, League

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The media cannot come separate [Donald] Trump from his supporters. Only Trump can do that. They're trying, they're gonna keep trying because they think they can. They did it with [George W.]Bush. They did it with [Mitt] Romney. They did it with [John] McCain. They did it with Bob Dole.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Media, Trying

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We are caught in a trap, a cycle, in which we keep trying to solve the world's problems at every level - except the level at which the problems exist.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Trying, World, Levels

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• It is important to me to keep trying to push myself to try lots of new musical styles and approaches. To keep growing. It is my version of jumping out of planes.

  China Forbes

  Jumping, Style, Musical

  "China Forbes, Lead singer of Pink Martini: Always Growing". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. January 27, 2015.

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• How's it hangin' Harry? I keep trying to die, but they won't let me. Well, you can't have everything.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Trying, Let Me, Wells

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• There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

  Amy Tan

  Fate, Trying, Reason

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.130, Penguin

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• I don't have any of the answers, son. Never did. All I can do is keep asking the questions. Keep trying to make sense of why people do what they do.

  Rodman Philbrick

  Son, People, Trying

  Rodman Philbrick (2013). “The Last Book in the Universe”, p.211, Scholastic Inc.

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• The Death Eaters can't all be pure-blood, there aren't enough pure-blood wizards left," said Hermione stubbornly. "I expect most of them are half-bloods pretending to be pure. It's only Muggle-borns they hate, they'd be quite happy to let you and Ron join up" "There is no way they'd let me be a Death Eater!" said Ron indignantly...."My whole family are blood traitors! That's as bad as Muggle-borns to Death Eaters!" "And they'd love to have me," said Harry sarcastically. "We'd be best pals if they didn't keep trying to do me in.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hate, Death Eaters, Blood

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• Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it's inconvenient for you.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Trying, Bastille, Inconvenient

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “The Knights of Crystallia: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians”, p.22, Macmillan

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• The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I'm ever going to tell.

  Joss Whedon

  Struggle, Angel, People

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• Why do these crazy vampires keep trying to collect me?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Crazy, Vampire, Trying

  Jeaniene Frost (2009). “Destined For an Early Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Don't die. Don't die! You don't have to win. You don't have to keep trying! Just don't get hurt anymore, please!

  Tite Kubo

  Hurt, Winning, Trying

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• It's all about getting the hand of things. Easy does it; take it easy. You'll figure everything out in time. But for right now, just keep trying. Pay attention and avoid the temptation to go further than you're ready. Talk less. And listen more.

  Kate Jacobs

  Hands, Temptation, Trying

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• I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

  S. Robson Walton

  Dad, Important, Trying

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• I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

  Jack Gleeson

  Trying, Difficult

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• The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And thats a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.

  Callie Thorne

  Giving Up, Ideas, Trying

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• People get a lot of confusion, because they keep trying to think of quantum mechanics as classical mechanics.

  Sidney Coleman

  Thinking, People, Confusion

  "Quantum Mechanics in Your Face". Lecture at the New England sectional meeting of the American Physical Society, April 9, 1994.

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• My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace.

  Amelia Earhart

  Trying, Enough, Ifs

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• Good storytelling for me is not so much technical expertise, which I know is applauded often; it's actually freshness of approach. It does mean you sometimes stumble and fall and make a horrible mess of things in seeking that freshness, but you should always keep trying to do that.

  Danny Boyle

  Fall, Mean, Trying

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2008.

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• We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal gratifications and love affairs and financial affairs and everything else. But loping alongside him is this fascist lout who keeps trying to take over. And if you keep ignoring him, he gets bigger and bigger, so every once in a while the free individual has to turn away from his private pursuits and give this fascist lout a few clouts, and beat him down to size.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Writing, Lyric Poetry, Giving

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 1, 2012.

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• If at first you don't succeed, try management.

  Stephen Hawking

  Success, Perseverance, Persistence

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