Top 200 Quotes About Trying (2025 Update)

1. “Try and fail, but never fail to try!”

— Jared Leto

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Passion Quotes, Challenges Quotes

2. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”

— Wayne Gretzky

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Positive Quotes, Goal Quotes, Confidence Quotes

3. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

4. “Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just... start.”

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Also featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Intention Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Momentum Quotes

5. “I’m not afraid of dying, I’m afraid of not trying.”

— Jay-Z

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Effort Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Determination Quotes

6. “Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Courage Quotes, Failure Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success

7. “If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Powerful Motivational Quotes

8. “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

9. “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Progress Quotes

10. “Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Goal Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Commitment Quotes

11. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

12. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Challenges Quotes

13. “Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life. ”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

14. “Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Effort Quotes, Career Development Quotes

15. “If you believe in yourself anything is possible.”

— Miley Cyrus

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Mind Quotes

16. “Luck is the dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

— Ray Kroc

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Action Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes

17. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Action Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Fiction Quotes

18. “While there is life, there is hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Inspirational Life Quotes

19. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Quotes About Writing, Overcoming Fear Quotes, Creative Quotes

20. “If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

21. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

— Jeff Bezos

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Business Quotes, Goal Quotes, Action Quotes

22. “We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

23. “Do your best and let God do the rest.”

— Ben Carson

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Christian Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Values Quotes, Effort Quotes

24. “The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

25. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

26. “Progress is more important than perfection.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Positive Work Quotes, Important Quotes, Progress Quotes

27. “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Action Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

28. “I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.”

— Marilyn Monroe

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Character Quotes

29. “Overthinking the process will kill any career in the creative space. You just have to do, not think.”

— Casey Neistat

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

30. “Dream big. Start small. But most of all, start.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Monday Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

31. “If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.”

— David Viscott

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

32. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Failure Quotes

33. “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”

— Steve Martin

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Wise Quotes, Hilarious Quotes

34. “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Life Quotes

35. “Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Effort Quotes

36. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

— Michelangelo

Also featured in: Powerful Motivational Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Expectations Quotes

37. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

38. “They did not know it was impossible so they did it.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Law Of Attraction Quotes

39. “Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Motivational Monday Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

40. “A dream is only a dream until you decide to make it real.”

— Harry Styles

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Ambition Quotes, Determination Quotes

41. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Change Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

42. “Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.”

— William Faulkner

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes

43. “Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

— Dale Carnegie

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Failure Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

44. “Do your best and God will do the rest.”

— Nick Vujicic

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Blessing Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

45. “There are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Achievement Quotes

46. “I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

— Pablo Picasso

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Learning Quotes, Creativity Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

47. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

— André Gide

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Impact Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Graduation Quotes

48. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Failure Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

49. “Be better today than you were yesterday, and be better tomorrow than you are today.”

— Lorenzo Snow

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

50. “Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Self-Esteem Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes