Top 200 Quotes About Trying (2024 Update)
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151. “Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don’t demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.”

— Russell M. Nelson

152. “Life is about trying things to see if they work.”

— Ray Bradbury

153. “Smile, though your heart is aching. Smile, even though it’s breaking. When there are clouds in the sky, you’ll get by if you smile through your pain and sorrow. Smile and maybe tomorrow, you’ll see the sun come shining through for you.”

— Charlie Chaplin

154. “Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.”

— Jim Rohn

155. “Don’t be afraid to fail. Be afraid not to try.”

— Michael Jordan

156. “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

157. “Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.”

— Marianne Williamson

158. “Remember, don’t try to build the greatest wall that’s ever been built. Focus on laying a single, expertly-placed brick. Then keep doing that, every day.”

— Will Smith

159. “Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge that. Because effort is between you and you.”

— Ray Lewis

160. “If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.”

— Charles Bukowski

161. “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.”

— George Washington

162. “Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.”

— Steve Prefontaine

163. “Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.”

— Alan Watts

164. “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.”

— Steve Jobs

165. “Opportunities Don’t Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!”

— Greg Plitt

166. “Breathe and don’t try to be perfect.”

— Nicole Kidman

167. “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

— John Wayne

168. “Failure is part of the process of success.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

169. “Keep working. Don’t wait for inspiration. Work inspires inspiration. Keep working.”

— Michael Crichton

170. “Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we’re trying to do. It’s imperfect, but that’s what it’s all about.”

— Warren Buffett

171. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

172. “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart...”

— Paul the Apostle

173. “Believe in your dreams and work hard for them.”

— Wanderlei Silva

174. “The more you are like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. The problem with most people is that they spend their lives trying to emulate others, and so we have lots of copies but few originals.”

— Walt Disney

175. “Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.”

— Colin Powell

176. “All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.”

— Tony Robbins

177. “Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.”

— Bob Ross

178. “If you are going to try, go all the way or don’t even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.”

— Charles Bukowski

179. “Every day of my life, I’m trying to find a different way to get better.”

— Ray Lewis

180. “Fall in love with the process, and the results will come.”

— Eric Thomas

181. “Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up. Now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.”

— Alan Watts

182. “I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.”

— Warren Buffett

183. “Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

184. “I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.”

— Sylvester Stallone

185. “I’m chasing perfection.”

— Kobe Bryant

186. “Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

187. “Now I know who you are U got nothin’ on me, I see I should’ve known it from the start You can’t tell me lies Don’t even try cuz This is goodbye Goodbye.”

— Demi Lovato

188. “We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”

— Douglas Adams

189. “So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”

— Malcolm X

190. “Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.”

— Rose Kennedy

191. “We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, but frankly we won’t if we’re too afraid to try.”

— Beth Moore

192. “Here I am alive, and it’s not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over.”

— Leo Tolstoy

193. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

— Conrad Hilton

194. “Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”

— Denis Waitley

195. “We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.”

— Mary Martin

196. “The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.”

— John Bingham

197. “The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”

— Dale Carnegie

198. “I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”

— Nelson Mandela

199. “If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that.”

— Swami Vivekananda

200. “Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.”

— Og Mandino