Trying Quotes - Page 64

Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You

If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure

Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question.

I'm a tough old broad from Brooklyn. Don't try to make me into something I'm not. If you want someone to tiptoe down the Barkley staircase in crinoline and politely ask where the cattle went, get another girl.

We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.

Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

I don't try to change myself to impress anybody. I'm just who I am.

What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

I found out in pro wrestling that it works better if you just try and be yourself versus working on something you're not, so I'm me and maybe it's magnified a bit, but it's easier just being me.

Try to leave the Earth a better place than when you arrived.

I`d rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else.

Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.

Honesty may not be the best policy, but it is worth trying once in a while.

Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

I find myself trying to explain more, and explain the perspective of my mentality, or the mentality I'm trying to convey.

Positive thinking isn't ignoring life's problems, it's understanding that Allah can make a way out for you if you sincerely try.

Instead of thinking that you put pieces together that will add up to a whole, I think you have to start with the premise that they're already together and you try to keep from destroying life by segmenting it, overorganizing it and dehumanizing it. You try to keep things together. The educative process must be organic, and not an assortment of unrelated methods and ideas.

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

Read. You don't have to read me. But just read. Read the best people. Everybody's trying to do the same thing, which is keep you turning pages. Everyone does it a different way. But we all want you to understand [our books].

I want to be aware of how I treat others, not thinking too highly of myself to be a servant in a culture which tries to place me on a throne that only God should sit.

All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.

What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.

Bad guys have always been my bag... I look mean without even trying.

When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.

I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!