Top 200 Quotes About Trying (2025 Update)
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101. “Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.”

— Harry S. Truman

102. “Do or do not. There is no try. Only do.”

— Frank Oz

103. “Think about it: What’s the worst thing that can happen to you if you just totally go for it?”

— Grant Cardone

104. “Don’t waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. Your time is too valuable to try to prove yourself to people.”

— Joel Osteen

105. “Being fearless is having a lot of fears, but you jump anyway.”

— Taylor Swift

106. “Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn’t matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.”

— Rumi

107. “Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.”

— Swami Vivekananda

108. “Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.”

— Thomas A. Edison

109. “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right.”

— Walt Disney

110. “Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.”

— Lil Wayne

111. “Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.”

— William Arthur Ward

112. “You want something? Go get it.”

— Will Smith

113. “I’m definitely on the pursuit of perfection. I will always be learning.”

— Conor McGregor

114. “Practice every time you get a chance.”

— Bill Monroe

115. “If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.”

— Eric Thomas

116. “The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.”

— Denis Waitley

117. “I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”

— Vincent van Gogh

118. “If you have a dream, you’ve got to protect it.”

— Chris Gardner

119. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

— Henry Ford

120. “It ain't over till it's over.”

— Yogi Berra

121. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

— George Bernard Shaw

122. “A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

123. “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

— William Ernest Henley

124. “Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.”

— Lou Holtz

125. “No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.”

— Max Lucado

126. “If at first you don’t succeed, try hard work.”

— William Feather

127. “You can’t read about push ups. You gotta do them.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

128. “I’ve always been a fighter. If you tell me I can’t, I’ll die trying to prove you wrong.”

— R.A. Salvatore

129. “I’m Starting With The Man In The Mirror I’m Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change.”

— Michael Jackson

130. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

— Steve Jobs

131. “Most people can learn a lot more than they think they can. They sell themselves short without trying.”

— Elon Musk

132. “You can always do more than you think you can.”

— John Wooden

133. “Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.”

— W. Clement Stone

134. “Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.”

— Colin Powell

135. “Start where you are, use what you have.”

— Arthur Ashe

136. “We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.”

— Joyce Meyer

137. “If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”

— Barack Obama

138. “Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you’re bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.”

— S. N. Goenka

139. “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”

— Anne Lamott

140. “What I’m trying to do is to maximise the probability of the future being better.”

— Elon Musk

141. “I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

— Vincent van Gogh

142. “The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.”

— Dawson Trotman

143. “I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder next time.”

— Michael Jordan

144. “Doing your best is more important than being the best.”

— Shannon Miller

145. “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?”

— Rumi

146. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity.”

— Louis Pasteur

147. “If it turns out that my best wasn’t good enough, at least I won’t look back and say that I was afraid to try; failure makes me work even harder.”

— Michael Jordan

148. “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

— Vincent van Gogh

149. “Aim for the highest cloud so that if you miss it, you will hit a lofty mountain.”

— Maori Proverb

150. “We miss 100 percent of the sales we don’t ask for.”

— Zig Ziglar