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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• Doing your best means never stop trying.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hard Work, Mean, Kids

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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

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Especially during the first nine months, there was so much going on with trying to hire 55 people to run the city, it was hard to imagine any honeymoon.

  John Hickenlooper

  Running, Cities, People

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• For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.

  Julie Gold

  Trying, Calling, Hard

  Interview with Angela Page, www.wjffradio.org. June 24, 2000.

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• I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

  Andrew Bogut

  Basketball, Sports, Play Hard

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

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• I am trying hard to better my performances every match.

  Suresh Raina

  Trying, Performances, Hard

  Source: www.oyecricket.com

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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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• It is not accurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then, what matures Christians is 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 mind, heart and life by believing the gospel more and more deeply as our life goes on.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Believe, Heart

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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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