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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• 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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• Doing your best means never stop trying.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hard Work, Mean, Kids

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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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• A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Strong, Athlete, Men

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.42, Random House

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• Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Trying, Enough Time

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

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• If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.

  Erik Wemple

  Running, Trying, Failing

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• I dropped my voice and stared into her eyes. I could tell she was trying hard not to look away. I was so furious I could have cheerfully ripped her head off. "But you're going to find out, Mom,' I said very softly."And it's gonna give you nightmares for the rest of your wasted life." Oh, my God, I was so badass. It was all I could do to not give a MWA HA HA!

  James Patterson

  Mom, Badass, Eye

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• Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

  Al Capone

  Guy, Trying, Hell

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• I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

  Clare Balding

  Passion, Knitting, Car

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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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• 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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• 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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• Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just trying to get in and you're given so little time to get in gently, but it's always hard.

  William Hurt

  Trying, Arbitrary, Actors

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

  Piper Perabo

  Mean Girls, Hurt, Home

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• You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'

  Trip Hawkins

  Mistake, Moving, Personality

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• There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Writing, Men

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.648, GENERAL PRESS

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• If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

  Sallie Krawcheck

  Careers, Trying, Levels

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• By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." That's more like it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sorry, Self, Evil

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”

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• The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Effort, Trying

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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