Trying Quotes - Page 9

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.

I've always tried to present a positive view of the world in my work. It's so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.

If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.

Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?

Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them, and try to help them out. But pompous fools-guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus-THAT, I CANNOT STAND! An ordinary fool isn't a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

When Life Puts You in Tough Situations, Don't Say 'Why Me', Say 'Try Me'

I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

All I'm trying to do is not join my ancestral spirits just yet.

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

I try more and more to be myself, caring relatively little whether people approve or disapprove.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.

It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them.

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.

You cannot just depend on the market, because the market will say: China needs oil; China needs coal; China needs whatever, and Africa has got all these things in abundance. And we go there and get them, and the more we develop the Chinese economy, the larger the manufacturing is, the more we need global markets - sell it to the Africans which indeed might very well destroy whatever infant industries are trying to develop on the continent. That is what the market would do.

Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.