Top 100 Best Trying Quotes
#1. My best advice is this - by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.
Robyn Carr
#2. Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#3. the best way to enhance one's beauty was to let it shine through on its own, rather than trying to compete with a bunch of shiny bobbles or overdone fripperies.
Kelly Boyce
#4. Breckin, this is Holder. Holder is not my boyfriend, but if I catch him trying to break the record for best first kiss with another girl, then he'll soon be my not breathing non-boyfriend.
Colleen Hoover
#5. We actually try our best to be non-biased, but for me, that was the best movie ["Sicario"], filmmaking-wise and storytelling-wise, and connected to me the most. I thought it was great.
John Krasinski
#6. Tiffany found her mind filling up with an invisible gray mist, and in that thought there was nothing but grief. She could feel herself trying to push back time, but even the best witchcraft could not do that.
Terry Pratchett
#7. I'm playing checkers while they're playing chess
They make the big moves that make me a little less
Even when I win and beat the pants off of the best
I'm still playing checkers while they're playing chess
Billy Joe Shaver
#8. Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful.
Hiromu Arakawa
#9. Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best.
Walter Payton
#10. When you're managing an emergency department, you're trying to keep everybody calm, so when an emergency comes in the door, everyone can do their best work.
Glen Mazzara
#11. Pitchers don't need to hit well; they need to pitch well. Every step you create needs to do what it does best and nothing more. Focus allows you to pursue excellence, to zero in on the target. You can ruin a great pitcher by trying to make a hitter out of him, and you can ruin a great church ...
Andy Stanley
#12. Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.
Frank Abagnale
#13. I started off doing plays as a theater actor. But I never thought of it in terms of it leading anywhere. I was just trying to be the best actor that I could be in the context of what I was doing.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#14. Women always try to tame themselves as they get older, but the ones who look best are often a bit wilder.
Miuccia Prada
#15. Don't ever let rejections or failures put you down and keep you from trying. Believe in yourself, have an unwavering desire to excel, put in your best your efforts, persevere and you will blaze your trail.
Roopleen
#16. No one knows how to be normal, Jim. We're all just trying our best. Sometimes we don't have to think about it and other times it's like running after a bus that's already halfway down the street.
Rachel Joyce
#17. I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.
Deacon Jones
#18. Writing is a totally different brain than directing, at least for me. With writing, you're trying your best to foresee all the problems before they happen. It's more architectural in a weird way.
Craig Zobel
#19. All I need to do is try and do the best that I can do.
Selena
#20. Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.
Thomas S. Monson
#21. Maybe you can't save the world, but you'll never stop trying. It's the best thing about you.
Ann Aguirre
#22. Of course, they're not clowning around trying to make me laugh. They're doing their best to live very serious lives, and they just happen to fall down sometimes. I think that's cool.
Haruki Murakami
#23. You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.
John Wooden
#24. Blessed with some success, so I'mma try my best to live my life right. When I see God, he'll be impressed.
Mac Miller
#25. I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.
Michael Birch
#26. Minimalism has a connotation of being reductive, and not in the best way. 'Brevetist' is a better term. I'm trying to be as concise as possible and still getting across to the reader. When information is delivered in that way, it is very satisfying to me.
Susan Minot
#27. You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.
Jason Mraz
#28. When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln
#29. God's grace will never be available to you to become another person. He created to be you - the best "you" you can be! Forget about trying to be someone else.
Joyce Meyer
#30. Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Zig Ziglar
#32. This witch's brew of vulnerability and fear and hope makes dawn the time when we can best hear whatever it is our ghosts are trying to tell us. But
Barbara Nickless
#33. I think the best way to waste time is to try to save time.
Francoise Sagan
#34. Gloom and despondency have never defeated adversity. Trying times need courage and resilience. Our strength as a people is not tested during the best of times,
Thabo Mbeki
#35. I think we both like Crazy Anna a little more than regular Anna. It's like magic - while I was trying on the bathing suit last month, it rubbed against my butt and unleashed the Absolute Best Summer Ever Bikini Genie, granting all my wishes.
Sarah Ockler
#36. I like to quote the verse, "I can do all things through Him who gives me strength." I kind of envision me skiing and God is kind of like an eagle right next to me screeching in my ear that everything is going to be all good. I just try my best and that's all I can ask for.
Nick Goepper
#37. So I guess what I'm trying to say is that life is fast. And it keeps speeding up. Sometimes I lose track of the season - or even the year. And we just have to make the best of it all.
Emily Giffin
#38. I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.
Nikki Giovanni
#39. A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know.
Ward Cunningham
#40. No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.
Kandyse McClure
#41. True love, the good, the beautiful, one-and-only kind, the kind between loving friends and family and partners who are mostly just trying hard to do their best, it managers to overlook some pieces of its story.
Deb Caletti
#42. You need a government that believes in government. It also believes in markets and wants to give markets the best, the greatest opportunity, but is trying to govern well.
George Soros
#43. I continue to enjoy looking for stories, and trying to do the best job I can reporting and writing them.
Bob Greene
#44. Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.
Megan Chance
#45. There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.
Gwen Stefani
#46. I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.
Jon Favreau
#47. I think the interview went well, but it's so hard to say. Interviews seem such artificial situations; everyone on their best behavior trying desperately to hide behind a professional fa
E.L. James
#49. But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.
Norton Juster
#50. We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.
Ger Duany
#51. With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have.
John Rzeznik
#52. I try to eliminate as much dialogue as possible, and I guess Rambo is my really best experiment with how to eliminate dialogue.
Sylvester Stallone
#53. I'm just trying to do my best in the circumstances and am very happy for everyone else to do the same so I don't cultivate enemies.
Martin Bashir
#54. I'm just trying to be the best player that I can be.
Chris Bosh
#55. A wholesome family is one where there is a lot of love. It's living by example. It's acceptance of people at their core, but it's also pushing each other to be our best selves and try things we might not be good at.
Daphne Oz
#56. I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising.
Megan Smith
#58. God knows best. He knows the man to provide what you need for the long run vs. the man, who is just currently trying to give you what you want right now, that is always subject to change.
Stephan Labossiere
#59. I get asked that a lot and I always go back to my mom's, 'No one has the right to beat you.' I take that to every venue that I'm in. She would say, 'Someone has to be the best in the world, why not you?' I always try to keep that in mind.
Ronda Rousey
#60. Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.
Nicolas Chamfort
#61. The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things
Augusten Burroughs
#62. We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.
Anita Roddick
#63. Communication has always been at the service of power. Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel for the Pope. Is it not an advertisement for the Church? I try to make the best pictures I can and sometimes they are used in advertising campaigns.
Oliviero Toscani
#64. Giving up control and just trying to be happy at the moment has proven to be the best thing for me.
Taya Kyle
#65. I cope with it the best way I know - by being completely unreasonable and trying to force everything else in the world to obey me and do all the nonsensical things I want.
Allie Brosh
#66. I do the best I can to approve and disapprove only of my own behavior. I don't always succeed, but I try. I'm trying now and I'm going to keep at it.
Robert B. Parker
#67. Why miss out on what God has in store for you while you're trying to get in on his plan for somebody else? Your plans are the best - for YOU - and so is your personality. You're so worth it
Nancy Rue
#68. What we're all sort of trying to do in our lives is to make the simplest things work out the best.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#69. The only thing to do is to go one's own way, to try one's best, to make the thing live.
Vincent Van Gogh
#70. I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do
Nikki Sixx
#71. I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.
Maya Angelou
#72. The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.
Jonah Lehrer
#73. If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
Heber J. Grant
#74. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.
Martin Sheen
#75. If I'm on the court, I have to do what I do best and that's try to go hard to the basket.
Manu Ginobili
#76. When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?
Jose Andres
#77. You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.
Johnny Depp
#78. I'm going to approach it as trying to do my best, but you can't do everything yourself. That's asking for bad things to happen.
Mark Mulder
#79. I think anybody who really knows me knows I'm not a media hound and knows that I'm really sort of trying to do the best I can with the situation that I found myself in.
Monica Lewinsky
#80. Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#81. Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world.
Alister E. McGrath
#82. How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
Charlie Munger
#83. I try not to make plans. Because, even the best laid plans etc. etc.
Brent Spiner
#84. When real actors are approaching their work, we could be on a little stage somewhere, doing community theater. It's all the same. They're just trying to make the scene work. They're just trying to do the best they can and figure it out.
Kurt Fuller
#85. Trying your best to bring the water to your eyes, thinking it might stop her from woopin' your behind.
Stevie Wonder
#86. Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.
Jenni Rivera
#87. When faced by any loss, there's no point in trying to recover what has been, it's best to take advantage of the large space that opens up before us and fill it with something new.
Paulo Coelho
#88. My family and I are just regular folks, just trying to get through the day and do the best you can and pay the bills, and that's who we're singing to.
Rodney Atkins
#89. As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.
Ken Jennings
#90. I'm working to be the best - the very best. There are a lot of people in this industry, and I'm trying to be the best. I'm working to affect history in a positive way.
Shameik Moore
#91. I can't really do anything about the past and all I can do is just embrace the future and try to make the most of the present. So I'm really trying to do that and doing my best every day.
Zach Sudfeld
#92. I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.
Joan Collins
#93. I think that if you grow up trying to be the best then you have to be competitive because the more you compete, the more someone is there that is a challenge and the more your performance improves.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#94. Don't you try and go through life worried if someone had liked you or not. You best make sure that they are doing right by you.
James Earl Jones
#95. I scratched the word HELLO in small letters ... And as names go, it's a good one, isn't it? In spite of all the damage that followed, I still think that's the perfect name for a picture drawn by a man who was trying his best not to be sad anymore - who was trying to remember how it felt to be happy.
Stephen King
#96. Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.
Ken Blanchard
#97. I agree today that a man has no business trying to tell women what their characteristics are, which ones are inborn, which are more admirable, which will be best utilized by what occupations.
Benjamin Spock
#98. I was trying my best to just stop that ball from going over the fence, I'd sacrifice my body if I have to. I've done that my whole career.
Torii Hunter
#99. I don't believe that knifing and that sort of terminology is applicable to myself, but I try to the very best of my ability to be as honest as I can with my colleagues and with the electorate at large.
Eric Abetz
#100. This job of playing God is a little too big for me. Nevertheless, someone has to do it, so I'll try my best to fake it.
Larry Wall
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