Trying Quotes - Page 20

To be an influencer, you have to love people before you can try to lead them.

I wear what I like to wear, I don't pick out clothes to try to fit in or whatever, I just like what I like.

Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

If you don't fail, you're not even trying.

When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful. You are feeding them energy because you are not seeing them as simple phenomena. If one tries to quiet them down, that is another way of feeding them.

Don't save up love like you're trying to retire on it; give it away like you're made of it.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.

Try again. Fail again. Try better.

Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'

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

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement.

Many people fail not so much because of their mistakes; they fail because they are afraid to try.

To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Well, I`ve never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: "You have to envision your life, and then go backwards." I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

You might as well try and dam Niagara Falls with toothpicks as to stop the reform wave sweeping our land.

I just try to look into the mirror, and work on the things that I wasn't doing, and I made a promise to myself that after the season, I will look at the same mirror, and say that you did everything you could

The Syrians are trying to say that the Lebanese are not capable of ruling themselves.

I'm just competitive. Everybody always says, 'You've gotta be crazy to do what you do.' It's not really true. Everything we do... is always about trying to out-do your friends. Trying to one-up, be a little faster, a little better, jump a little further.