Trying Hard Quotes

• Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.

  Wess Roberts

  Mistake, Failure, Trying

  Wess Roberts (2012). “Victory Secrets of Attila the Hun: 1,500 Years Ago Attila Got the Competitive Edge. Now He Tells You How You Can Get It, Too--His Way”, p.1, Dell

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• If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Failure, Trying

  "Fitness Superstar Jillian Michaels On Weight Loss, Healthy Eating & More!". Interview with Jessica Lipps, onmogul.com.

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• Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Doing your best means never stop trying.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hard Work, Mean, Kids

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• For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

  T. S. Eliot

  Work, Poetry, Trying

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 5 (1940)

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• Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Trying, Trying Too Hard, Hard

  "Imperfection". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

  George Lucas

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  George Lucas (2015). “ArtFolds: Yoda: Yoda and the Force”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

  Clayton Christensen

  Jesus, Father, Son

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• I know, I say, after he says, This is hard, for the third time. This is what happens when you have a TRM, I tell him. You make a mess. It's okay. You just have to try harder next time. I am trying hard, Dad says. I know. You get a sticker. Thank you. Okay. You get another sticker for being polite.

  Kathryn Erskine

  Dad, Trying, Next

  Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.84, Penguin

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• If you haven't failed, you're not trying hard enough.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Trying, Enough, Havens

  Jennifer Crusie (2010). “Trust Me on This”, p.53, Bantam

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• there’s really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn’t make a difference because I’d just be running from myself, and you can’t do that no matter how hard you try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.

  Pete Wentz

  Running, Differences, Making A Difference

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I've got a war in my mind So, I just ride

  Lana Del Rey

  Summer, War, Night

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• If you try to do your best there is no failure.

  Mike Farrell

  Fall, Kids, Hard Work

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• Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

  Jasper Fforde

  Mistake, Mind, Trying

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.231, Penguin

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• Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Kids, Hard Work

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• People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Kids, Hard Work, People

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• Sometimes you can press a little bit and you're trying to do too much and you're trying too hard. You want to win so bad and you want to help the team so badly that you end up trying too much instead of letting the play come to you.

  Ed Belfour

  Sports, Team, Hockey

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• It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Believe, Heart

  "Shaped by the Gospel: Doing Balanced, Gospel-Centered Ministry in Your City".

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• A proper lady should be able to smile pretty, wear sequins like she means it, and kick a man's ass nine ways from Sunday while wearing stiletto heels. If she can't do that much, she's not trying hard enough.

  Mira Grant

  Mean, Sunday, Men

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• If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

  Gordon Moore

  Trying, Enough, Hard

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• If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

  Vince Lombardi

  Mistake, Trying, Enough

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• I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.

  David Copperfield

  Team, Knowing Everything, Challenges

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• So consumed in all your doom, trying hard to fill the emptiness.

  Christina Aguilera

  Sadness, Trying, Emptiness

  Song: You Are What You Are, Album: Keeps Gettin' Better: A Decade of Hits

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• The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.

  Lou Reed

  Philosophy, Moving, Mind

  Song: Science of the Mind, Album: The Raven

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