Top 200 Quotes About Trying (2025 Update)
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51. “It is better to aim high and miss than to aim low and hit.”

— Les Brown

52. “I will persist until I succeed!”

— Og Mandino

53. “The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall. ”

— Vince Lombardi

54. “You don’t need to be better than anyone else; you just need to be better than you used to be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

55. “The only failure is not trying.”

— Robin S. Sharma

56. “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”

— Mother Teresa

57. “There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

58. “I am prepared to try anything once.”

— Richard Branson

59. “Things turn out best for those who make best of how things turn out.”

— John Wooden

60. “If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”

— Seth Godin

61. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”

— H. G. Wells

62. “Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”

— William Shakespeare

63. “It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs.”

— Jillian Michaels

64. “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

65. “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

— Mary Pickford

66. “As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.”

— Casey Neistat

67. “Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

68. “If you never want to be criticized, for goodness’ sake don’t do anything new.”

— Jeff Bezos

69. “Do your practice and all is coming.”

— K. Pattabhi Jois

70. “If I fail, I try again, and again, and again.”

— Nick Vujicic

71. “The harder you work, the luckier you get.”

— Gary Player

72. “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”

— John F. Kennedy

73. “Work hard, be yourself, and have fun!”

— Michelle Kwan

74. “Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.”

— W. Clement Stone

75. “Set your target and keep trying until you reach it.”

— Napoleon Hill

76. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

— Joseph Campbell

77. “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.”

— Louis L'Amour

78. “Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than no”

— Richard Branson

79. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

80. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

— Anne Frank

81. “Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.”

— Robin S. Sharma

82. “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

83. “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

84. “Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.”

— Swami Vivekananda

85. “You get what you work for, not what you wish for.”

— Howard A. Tullman

86. “If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it, to work day and night for it, to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it If all that you dream and scheme is about it and life seems useless and worthless without it; If you gladly sweat for, fret for and plan for it and lose all your terror of the opposition for it; If you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern for tenacity; If neither cold or poverty, famish or gout, sickness or pain of body and brain can keep you away from the thing that you want; If dogged and grim you be size and beget it, with the help of GOD you will get it.”

— Berton Braley

87. “It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

88. “The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you’ll find the rest of the journey much easier.”

— Simon Sinek

89. “Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

90. “The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.”

— Simon Sinek

91. “If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”

— Lemony Snicket

92. “Self-belief and hard work will always earn you success.”

— Virat Kohli

93. “I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.”

— Edward Everett Hale

94. “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”

— Brian Tracy

95. “Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”

— Og Mandino

96. “Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

— Elon Musk

97. “The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”

— Albert Camus

98. “Failure is success if we learn from it.”

— Malcolm S. Forbes

99. “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.”

— Mick Jagger

100. “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.”

— Claire Cook