Trying Quotes - Page 10

Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.

I literally wake up and try to tackle every day the best I can and do my best to try to make life as productive and positive as I can.

People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.

Every person under your supervision is different. They're all different. They're identical in most ways, but not in all ways. You have to study and analyze every individual under your supervision and try to work with them in a way that will be most productive.

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

You’ll never progress if you never try

The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.

I know you've been trying to get a hold of me, but I can barely get a hold of myself

It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we try to indoctrinate them with facts, which they are supposed to feed back, and then we fail them. And that's child abuse. And you should never raise children that way. You should cultivate and encourage their natural tendencies to create solutions to the problems around them.

I think you should try... not to try to be better than everyone around you, but try to be better than yourself everyday.

Lots of death, huh? Personally, I'm trying to avoid lots of death, but you guys have fun!

I have a crazy sense of humor so if someone is just trying to be rude to me, or if you can tell that someone is angry for no reason, I like to entertain them.

Again, our marriage problems are not really marriage problems. They are heart problems. They are God problems. Our lack of intimacy with God causes a void that we try to fill with the frailest of substitutes. Like wealth or pleasure. Like fame or respect. Like people. Like marriage.

Nine to five is how ya survive, I ain't trying to survive I'm trying to live it to the limit and love it alive

I do small things. I try to do good things every day. If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.