Trying Quotes - Page 6

• Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body

  George Carlin

  Happiness, Fun, Over You

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• Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.

  Pope John XXIII

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, War, Party

  Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.

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• The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

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• 'Digiphrenia' is really the experience of trying to exist in more than one incarnation of yourself at the same time. There's your Twitter profile, there's your Facebook profile, there's your email inbox. And all of these sort of multiple instances of you are operating simultaneously and in parallel.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Email, Inbox, Profile

  "In A World That's Always On, We Are Trapped In The 'Present'". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.kuow.org. March 27, 2013.

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• Aspire to be, and all that we are not God will give us credit for trying.

  Nannie Helen Burroughs

  Giving, Credit, Gods Will

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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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• Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

  Joseph Joubert

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Heaven

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  No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jun 03, 2012

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  You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

  Amy Poehler

  Inspirational, Fear, Hands

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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• God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.

  Aeschylus

  Love, Spiritual, Men

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  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Positive, Beauty

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  The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Knitting, Mood, Circumstances

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.21, Storey Publishing

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• Dancing through life Swaying and sweeping And always keeping cool Life is faught less When you're thoughtless Those who don't try Never look foolish Dancing through life Mindless and careless Make sure you're where less Trouble is rife Woes are fleeting Blows are glancing When you're dancing Through life.

  Stephen Schwartz

  Blow, Dancing, Looks

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• Don't waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, People, Energy

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• It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspirational, Success, Fate

  Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial

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• The social psychologist of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for more than one generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen.

  Bertrand Russell

  Children, School, Army

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• People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

  E. W. Howe

  People, Neglect, Can Do

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• The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.

  Tom Peters

  Believe, Long, Waiting

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• It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

  Mark Twain

  Character, Men, Impossible

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.48, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• This bright new year is given me
  To live each day with zest
  To daily grow and try to be
  My highest and my best!

  William Arthur Ward

  New Year, Zest, Years

  William Arthur Ward, “Another Fresh New Year”

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• In dwelling, live close to the ground.
  In thinking, keep to the simple.
  In conflict, be fair and generous.
  In governing, don't try to control.
  In work, do what you enjoy.
  In family life, be completely present.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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• Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

  Saint Augustine

  Brother, Believe, Saint

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