Top 100 At Least You Try Quotes
#1. All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
Rachel Bilson
#2. If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days
listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation pay off. You take home all you've taken in, all that you've overheard, and you turn it into gold. (Or at least you try.)
Anne Lamott
#3. If you die of pneumonia,I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an accident
(Hale)
Ally Carter
#4. Won't be able to live with myself if I don't at least try to convince you of my feelings. Not after that kiss. Not after how it's rearranged my whole heart.
Anne Eliot
#5. It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.
Robert Harris
#6. Ideals, my girl," she says. "Always easier to believe in than live."
"But if you don't at least try to live them," Bradley says, "then there's no point in living at all.
Patrick Ness
#8. What point was there in living if you didn't at least try to be as cool as your heroes?
p. 6, Double Duce
Aaron Cometbus
#9. I believe you should find at least two hours of every day to spend doing the things that make you happy and relieve stress. I try to wake up a little early so I have an hour to work out and try to allow at least an hour a day to hang with friends.
Jill Wagner
#10. You live, learn, and move on, and there are bumps in the road. Sometimes they seem like we're diving off cliffs without wings. But at least if we try to fly, we have a chance that maybe we can.
Melanie Nilles
#12. You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Jimmy Dean
#13. If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you'll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.
George Saunders
#14. Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that is connected to love in some way. Like the [musical] equivalent of ... you can make a decision to be kind. You can make a decision to greet people kindly and make jokes with people and connect.
Joanna Newsom
#15. I think it is a simple statement of principle that in a democracy you should make your MPs work harder for your vote and try and get at least majority support in their local area, and that in a nutshell is what AV does.
Nick Clegg
#16. Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that she has a secret boyfriend? Also, if you don't call me back within five minutes, I'm going to assume you found a way back to Evanston. Furthermore, you are an asshat. That is all.
John Green
#17. There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.
Waylon Jennings
#18. Cut the crap. Just don't try to be anything that you aren't, have ambition but when it comes to lyrics especially just be honest and write from the heart almost to an awkward degree, at least that's what works for me.
Max Bemis
#19. Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!
Lawrence G. Lovasik
#20. You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
George Osborne
#21. But if you could travel back through Time, and find yourself as you used to be, wouldn't you try, just once at least, to give her some kind of warning? Wouldn't you want to make things right?
Joanne Harris
#22. Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.
Frederick Lenz
#23. What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
John Green
#24. What's the point in being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable? How very odd, to believe God gave you life, and yet not think that life asks more of you than watching TV.
John Green
#25. If Satan can't keep you away from Christ, he will at least try to make you doubt your salvation.
Billy Graham
#26. When you're sending emails, you live and die by your subject line. Making it personal or funny can increase your open rate 10 times or more. At the very least, try to pitch some value rather than pointless bragging. 'Work Faster!' is better than 'Version 10.4 now available!'
John Wall
#27. My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
Bruce Dickinson
#28. One has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of life, if you look for patterns and meaning, not only are you bound to be disappointed, you are likely to waste a good deal of precious time.
Andrew Levkoff
#29. We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.
Adam Haslett
#30. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.
Douglas Hofstadter
#31. My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
Vin Diesel
#32. If you cannot get your act together then at least try to make it entertaining." Becky Johnson
Becky Johnson
#33. There's no point having wishes if you don't at least try to do them
Sally Nicholls
#34. All I know is this: if the idea doesn't hurt anybody else, and if it doesn't involve doing anything wrong, and it keeps coming back to you over and over again, I'd give it a try. If God wants you to do it, he'll help you out, and if not, at least you tried.
Cheryl Shireman
#35. Never try to out-drink a Swede, unless you happen to be a Finn or at least a Russian.
Jonas Jonasson
#36. Maybe the point of real friendship isn't that you have to repay kindness, but whatever. At least I should try. As
Holly Black
#37. I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.
Elle Fanning
#38. You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter
#39. But at least try to look a little more raider-ish, okay? We don't want to attract attention."
Zeke's snort sounded suspiciously like laughter. "Allie, you're a beautiful, exotic-looking vampire girl with a katana. Trust me, if anyone is going to attract attention, it's not going to be me.
Julie Kagawa
#40. Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.
Scott Westerfeld
#41. Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off
Augusten Burroughs
#42. It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.
Mignon McLaughlin
#43. Long distance sucks, but if you love someone, don't you at least want to try?
Ted Michael
#44. It dawned on me that comics were not an intrinsically limited medium. There was a tremendous amount of things you could do in comics that you couldn't do in other art forms - but no one was doing it. I figured if I'd make a try at it, I'd at least be a footnote in history.
Harvey Pekar
#45. So OK, it's your special big Four-O birthday But don't expect me to be obsequious and fawning You, being you, can't possibly be a good example So do try, at least, to serve as a warning
John Walter Bratton
#46. Look them... look this black hoodies... they are having fun... why you don't try also?
(Drugs are good for you..)
(Can you think!?)
- At least blink!
Deyth Banger
#47. Barely four feet tall back then, at least a foot shorter than him, and yet she'd said, "I won't run anymore. I won't try to leave. I've decided to stay and protect you." "Why?" Midnight black eyes afire in a sun-browned face that was all sharp bones. "Because you don't have a monster inside you.
Nalini Singh
#48. I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.
Will Self
#49. God, you smell so good, just like I remember. I was so afraid you wouldn't want me, you wouldn't forgive me, but I had to come here, at least try.I've only ever wanted you. You're the only person I've ever made love to.
Kindle Alexander
#50. If it's not impossible, you may as well try. If it is impossible, at least you'll find out why.
Ron Kaufman
#51. I always feel when you work with an artist and whenever I work with a really good photographer, I try to give him or her their own artistic freedom because that's the way you get the best work or at least the most interesting work.
Helen Mirren
#52. My inner voice told me at that point,
"you shouldn't be caring about her, just move on! You have to improve your life and live apart from her"
But my absurd heart was pleading,
"you love her, you idiot. She is your life sphere, one more try at least for the sake of kindness.
Qalandar Nawaz
#53. When you are wanting to comfort someone in their grief take the words 'at least' out of your vocabulary. In saying them you minimise someone else's pain ... Don't take someone else's grief and try to put it in a box that YOU can manage. Learn to truly grieve with others for as long as it may take.
Kay Warren
#54. SEX! Now that I have your attention ... Please try to meditate at least 15 minutes, every day. You know it's good for you.
Marcelo Goianira
#55. It matters not if we fail, but I need you to at least try, because then you can forgive yourself. Regrets will keep you chasing demons for the rest of your life.
O.E. Boroni
#56. I shan't ever understand your willingness to lie down and die," Felicity bars. "If you won't at least try to fight, I have no sympathy for you.
Libba Bray
#57. Really, Your Grace. Crooking your little finger again? At least buy me a bauble before you try to tup me in the carriage.
Victoria Dahl
#58. In my dreams you will always stay, every breathing moment from now. For you I would fly, at least I would try. For you I'll take the last flight out.
Carroll Bryant
#59. Try that yourself sometime: Take something (or someone) you love, and -in your imagination- say goodbye forever right now. Grieve for a moment. Then feel the explosion of happiness that comes when you remind yourself you don't have to say goobye.
At least, not yet.
Teller
#60. If you want to be rich, be friends with people who have the same mindset as you, or who at least won't try to change your mindset to be more like theirs. Life is too short to spend time with people who don't help you move forward.
Robert Kiyosaki
#61. I never cake someone who doesn't want to be caked - at least, I try not to. Sometimes I miss my target. I'm pretty much going through the crowd making sure I find someone who wants to get caked. If you don't want to get caked, shake your head or tell me you don't want to get caked. It's that easy.
Steve Aoki
#62. You go to grab your moments and squeeze them dry. Enjoy them while you're having them. Then remember and enjoy them all over again in your memory. And try to have more good ones than bad ones - - or at least remember more of the good ones.
Jean Ferris
#63. You can't spell "parentry" without "try." Of course, you'll make a few mistakes. The important thing is that the mistakes you make with your kids are the same ones your parents made with you. At least you know how those turn out.
Stephen Colbert
#64. Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.
Guy Lafleur
#65. Most people, who have quit smoking, have had at least one unsuccessful try in the past. It is not important how many times you try to quit. The only important thing is, that eventually you stay quit
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. Here's a suggestion you might want to pay attention to. Try to forget everything you learned on Oprah and if you can't do that, at least refrain from regurgitating that crap at me. It spoils my appetite.
Samantha Young
#67. I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.
Alana Stewart
#68. A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.
Linda Howard
#69. It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.
Joely Fisher
#70. And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it ...
Constantine P. Cavafy
#71. He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins.
Dana Marton
#72. Try 'Thank-you'," Ted said, giving me a hug (with the requirement of pounding me fraternally on the back - the only way that males are allowed to hug one another unless at least one of them has a fatal disease).
Blake Petit
#73. I can see by your face that I'll never persuade you. And that's surprising, because usually you at least try to see my side."
I can see your side," said Cecily. "I've got a much clearer view of it than you do, from over here on my side.
Orson Scott Card
#74. Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
Jojo Moyes
#75. It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
Gavin Bryars
#76. Holy shit, Bird," I whispered through my teeth. "At least try to be normal. You have to at least try.
Nicole Krauss
#77. If you have a dream, you want to at least be able to try to achieve it in some way. Something that is seemingly beyond your grasp but that you know that with a bit of hard work you could possibly achieve.
Cecelia Ahern
#78. Everyone should at least try to do the thing he wants to do. Later in life situations and responsibilities force people to compromise. But to compromise now ... it's like quitting before you start.
Jacqueline Susann
#79. If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.
George McGovern
#80. People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.
Veronica Rossi
#81. And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.
Naomi Novik
#82. Trouble is bad to get into but fun to get out of. If you're in trouble, eighty percent of the time there's a way out. If you can see the ball, you can probably hit it; and if you can hit it, you can move it; and if you can move it, you might be able to knock it in the hole. At least it's fun to try.
Arnold Palmer
#83. Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.'
And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.
Janette Rallison
#84. I'll always try to go the safest route, but once someone strikes you or puts their hands on you then it's on, at least for me.
Chuck Liddell
#85. I think that when you create something or at least try to create something, you slither between excitement and pleasure and you understand this huge emotional frustration. You did one feat, then you go back one.
Audrey Tautou
#86. The others. Swear to me you'll at least try to help them, to make them see.
Leigh Bardugo
#87. I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.
Macaulay Culkin
#88. You got hair like a girl," Mr. D said. "And you smell like bubble bath. At least I can get a trim." "I'm wearing Old Spice." "Next time try something stronger. Like horse manure." Mr.
J.R. Ward
#89. Even in drama, I like to try to find the humor because I think it's very human. Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least.
Colm Meaney
#90. I at least know what I am and do not try to hide it from the rest of the world. Do you know what you are? Because you can only be one thing at a time.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#91. I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to hopefully be entertaining, try and get a laugh at least by the second line, and then say what you need to say.
Geoffrey Rush
#92. I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.
Bill Gates
#93. I try to get to the gym at least a few times a week, hopefully more. I also play hockey in a pickup league. I grew up playing, so it's nice to get on the ice whenever I can. With all that said, everyone should have cheat days or days off. You need to balance the unhealthy with the healthy.
Robbie Amell
#94. I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.
Damon Wayans Jr.
#96. So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.
Venus Williams
#97. Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.'
Jim Gaffigan
#98. If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.
Billy Connolly
#99. He's attracted to you. Skeevy as that is . . . At least go try. Just don't lift tail for him or anything.
Kresley Cole
#100. Whats the point of being alive, if you dont at least try to do something reliable
John Green
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