Trying Quotes

“You try again. You fail better.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“Just because you've never done something doesn't mean you can't start.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

“Be proud of yourself. Be proud that your heart and intentions are good. Be proud of the fact that you are trying.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“He must have said something because Baba pokes his shoulder and says, "Don't you know -- that's the thing -- everyone is not just good. Everyone is *trying* to be good. And everyone feels this way sometimes, that they are not good, and not good at trying either.”
― Fatima Farheen Mirza, A Place for Us

“I'm good but not good enough, which is worse than simply being bad. It is almost. The difference between being there when it happens and stepping out just in time to see it on the news. Still, I can't help feeling that in the closest arm of the multiverse, there is a version of me that is fatter and happier, smiling in my studio, paint behind my ears.”
― Raven Leilani, Luster

“Don’t strive to be perfect, just give it a hundred percent.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook

“All you can do is try. You cannot control another’s reactions. And if you truly accept that, you’ll have peace no matter the outcome.”
― Melanie A. Smith, Finding His Redemption

“A person who tries has an advantage over the person who wishes.”
― Utibe Samuel Mbom

“On holidays, I cave in to the memory of love, and associate desserts and eating with the love I experienced at my grandmother's table. She was a great cook, and sweets crowded the side console cabinet during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I have no answer as to how to overcome this. I will try until I die, every day. Just keep trying to be well. Enough said.”
― André Leon Talley, The Chiffon Trenches

“What is more one try, then?" Her voice was soft, yet somehow stronger than the storm. "What could it hurt?”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings: Book One of the Stormlight Archive

“As long as you keep praying and trying and dreaming, there is hope.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“But I could never have done it,' he objected, 'without everyone else's help.'
'That may be true,' said Reason gravely, 'but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a question of what you will do.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

“Today's struggle is tomorrow's strength, today's setback is tomorrow's comeback.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“It's hopeless. I know that, but I never really get it. I go right on. I think to myself: I was wrong about the last one, but I'll try harder to be right about the next one.”
― Nora Ephron, Heartburn

“My dear," I said, "if you would only exercise a little care--"

"I do sometimes," said Griselda, "But on the whole, I think things go worse when I'm trying.”
― Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage

“The first step in winning is the willingness to try.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, The Path to a Meaningful Life

“On the road to success
while you try
be wary of eyes that pry
and fears that fly.”
― Temi O'Sola

“I try not to hate people, some make it harder than others.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“I was named for flying—after those great birds we see over Sumer. Instead here we are, buried.
I’d brought celebratory drinks, but come, let’s toast irony instead.’
‘I’m not going to celebrate this.’ Mithila’s voice shook.
‘We can celebrate trying.”
― Gautam Bhatia

“I can manage it,' said Frodo. 'I must.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“No trying, only doing…”
― A.D. Aliwat

“If you never get off-trail you never discover new landscapes.”
― Maxime Lagacé

“And when we go to sleep, we ought to greet the bed completely out of breath from the day. We must have tree sap on our hands from climbing. Sand in our pockets and not know how. There must be some fresh wound on our body somewhere—a cut on the ankle, a bruised eye, or a chipped tooth. Our lips are to be kissed by anyone happy, our fingernails dirty, and we might have brought a bug or two home with us. On our wrist should be two bracelets: one from the hospital and another from the concert that got us there. We should have freed the heart in a streak of spoken desire, kind attempts to hold another hand, and by missing a thousand former lovers that you wish the best. We must find a way to revel in the dissatisfaction of a weary heart.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“the impossible is only impossible if you don’t even try. So I want to try.”
― Ashley Poston, Geekerella

“They start coordinating strategies to accomplish their goal, Sharing the information they've been able to glean and formulating plans. Attacking you becomes a participatory Game in which people try to one up each other in terms I have who can get to you the most. That first night, I was struck by how many of the threats or disgusting remarks sent my way we are made so publicly, lowercase while tagging other people. The ones that were especially vicious were rewarded (in social media terms) with likes, shares, and people joining in on the abuse.”
― Zoe Quinn, Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

“Leadership is all about making the jump, taking risks, and learning from your mistakes. It's about falling, dusting ourselves off, and getting back up again and again and again.”
― Sebastien Richard, Lead Like a Superhero: What Pop Culture Icons Can Teach Us About Impactful Leadership

“I will never give up trying, but will you ever give up believing?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“I think she's trying."

"Trying what?"

"She's trying to figure it out."

"Aren't we all?"

"No, I don't think so.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

“President Trump was trying to do election fraud in the end.”
― Steven Magee

“Dar cel care cauta asa cum trebuie gaseste intotdeauna. Nu exista vreo problema fara solutie. Daca nu o gasesti, e pentru ca nu ai cautat-o asa cum trebuie ori indeajuns. Orice broasca are o cheie. Nici un lacatus nu este destul de nebun ca sa fabrice broaste fara cheie.”
― Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Dracula in Carpati