Trying Hard Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well. It's when you are trying to convince another person to think the same way that you do that there is friction and trouble between people. But when you feel that the other person is dumber than dirt, too dumb for words - why waste your breath - you get along pretty well. There's no bond between people that's quite so strong as when people each feel slightly superior towards the other one.

  Garrison Keillor

  Strong, Thinking, Lakes

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• What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Science, Men, Curiosity

  Christian Science Monitor, July 21, 1971.

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• A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Success, Business

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Believe, Good Luck, Trying

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• A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!

  Nina Dobrev

  Sexy, Men, Mirrors

  "Nina Dobrev Is Our September Cover Girl!" by Laura Brounstein, www.cosmopolitan.com. August 5, 2013.

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• I think trying too hard to be sexy is the worst thing in the world a woman can do.

  Christian Bale

  Sexy, Thinking, Trying

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• I intend to live forever, or die trying.

  Groucho Marx

  Death, Funny Life, Forever

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• I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

  Faith Ringgold

  Love, Age, Trying

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• Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people’s stuff.

  George Carlin

  Philosophy, Stupid People, Balance

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Trying

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1970). “Think on these things”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• If you're not being rejected regularly - maybe you're not trying hard enough.

  Kathy Ireland

  Trying, Enough, Rejected

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• If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough

  Mario Andretti

  Hands, Racing, Trying

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

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• Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried." He went on asking questions. Did I fight a lot with Thalia, since she was a daughter of Zeus? (I didn't answer that one.) If Annabeth's mother was Athena, the goddess of wisdom, then why didn't Annabeth know better than to fall off a cliff? (I tried not to strangle Nico for asking that one.) Was Annabeth my girlfriend? (At this point, I was ready to stick the kid in a meat-flavored sack and throw him to the wolves.)

  Rick Riordan

  Daughter, Mother, Girlfriend

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• Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.

  John Irving

  Crazy, People, Giving

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

  Anita Roddick

  Meaningful, Hard Work, Kids

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• You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

  Marie Corelli

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Kids

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• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hard Work, Kids

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• I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

  Jay-Z

  Giving Up, Artist, Trying

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• Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.

  Lydia Lunch

  Eye, Thinking, Lunch

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• When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

  Maria Mitchell

  Hard Work, Mean, Night

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• I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

  Travis Barker

  Trying, Legs, Able

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• Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

  Bryan Adams

  Later In Life, Life Is Hard, Trying

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