Top 100 Die Trying Quotes
#1. This is all your fault," George said angrily to Wood. "'Get the Snitch or die trying,' what a stupid thing to tell him -
J.K. Rowling
#2. For many of us homemakers our greatest fear is in being found incompetent, insufficient, and ineffective. We prefer to look like we've got it all together. We give lip service to the idea that nobody's perfect, but we would rather die trying to prove that we're the exception to the rule.
Gloria Furman
#3. I had no clue what I was going to do with a male, or how to do it, but I knew I was going to do it right goddamn now or die trying.
Eli Easton
#4. That one person everyone looks for. They search and search, and some die trying to find 'em. And when you finally meet them, something inside of you says "Oh, there you are. I've been looking for you. And I didn't even know it.
Belle Aurora
#6. He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.
Laini Taylor
#7. I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for the fine if unattainable than sulking in passive, cynical resignation that hell is other people you're related to.
Lionel Shriver
#8. Do you want to die, or do you want to die trying? Give up or give it a shot.
Nick Trout
#9. It'll be down to you, Harry, to show them that a Seeker has to have something more than a rich father. Get to that Snitch before Malfoy or die trying, Harry, because we've got to win today, we've got to." "So no pressure, Harry," said Fred, winking at him.
J.K. Rowling
#10. To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.
Lauren DeStefano
#11. You're a con artist. A liar. A thief. An unredeemable soul. You can't be reformed. You can't be saved. You'll die trying to make the world pay for what it did to you. And you'll die alone.
Karina Halle
#12. Okay, don't just die, then. Die trying.
Rick Yancey
#13. You have every right to hate me for this lifetime and many others. You have every right to never see me again. To spit on my grave. But tonight, now, I'm not going to give up on you or," his voice fell with weight, "die trying.
Karina Halle
#14. Sometimes the only way to win is to die trying.
Joe Jonas
#15. You know i was just thinking that it's better to die trying [to live your bravest dream] than to live sleeping.
Robin Sharma
#16. If we should die trying to live, at least we live like human beings.
Tuvia Bielski
#17. They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.
Velma Wallis
#19. I know the odds are all against us and I know you feel this way too
So I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you
David Levithan
#22. There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.
Or die trying
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#23. I shake my head at his largesse, and I frown as a scene from Tess crosses my mind: the strawberry scene. It evokes my dream. To hell with Dr. Flynn - Freud would have a field day - and then he'd probably die trying to deal with Fifty Shades.
E.L. James
#24. We can't have sex all night," Tyson mumbled to himself. You can fucking die trying.
Richard Raley
#26. If the wise men mounted their camels now, they could escape, no question. But Balthazar hadn't ridden into Bethlehem to run. He'd come to kill every last one of them, or die trying.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#27. I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.
Jennifer Lopez
#28. If I don't get laid, I'll sure die trying.
Rod Stewart
#29. I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither did my dad. They both thought I would grow out of it. That it was a phase. I decided then I was going to do it or die trying.
Scott Adkins
#30. I believe that if you die trying to be your best, the world is still a better place.
Deacon Jones
#33. Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#34. My mother's dying and may not live through the week. So, yes, I'd rather die trying to save her than live with the guilt of wondering if I could have. If you can't understand caring that much for someone you love then you're one coldhearted bastard. (Abbie)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. I would join Combat or die trying... A fine choice of words. What had been meant as a melodramatic proclamation was now to be my intended irony.
Rachel E. Carter
#36. When confronted with iron-will determination, I can see Time, Fate and Circumstance calling a hasty conference and deciding, We might as well let him have his dream. He's said he's going to get there or die trying.
Jim Rohn
#38. You know, if it's humanly possible, I'll get it for you. And if it ain't humanly possible, I'l die trying.
Jeannette Walls
#39. I bite my fingernails till they look like disease, pull strips of my skin away. Get Daddy's razor out cabinet. Cut cut cut arm wrist, not trying to die, trying to plug myself back in. (111)
Sapphire.
#40. The most successful people in the most impossible situations are the ones that are sure they're gonna get out of it, and they go on thinking that, even if they die trying.
Lori Lansens
#41. Get love, become love, and share love, or die trying.
Nityananda Das
#42. To do something well is so worthwhile, that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy
Bruce McLaren
#44. Depression is like war. You either win or you die trying. There's no in between.
Kota
#45. I got a theory a person ought to do everything it's possible to do before he dies, and maybe die trying to do something that's really impossible.
Patricia Highsmith
#47. If you can get life outta love, you should die trying to get love outta life.
Shane Rainey
#48. For White man, life is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more.
David Mitchell
#49. We can either laugh in the face of death or die trying not to.
James Grippando
#50. There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But in that moment, I knew I would save her, or die trying.
Red Tash
#51. If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good.
Michael Oher
#55. Though I learned little in my compromised state, I learned enough to make a decision: I was going to understand how mood could overwhelm. I was going to understand depression or die trying.
Jonathan Rottenberg
#56. Our revenge is to live. We may be hunted like animals but we will not become animals. We have all chosen this - to live free, like human beings, for as long as we can. Each day of freedom is a victory. And if we die trying to live, at least we die like human beings.
Tuvia Bielski
#57. I've always been a fighter. If you tell me I can't, I'll die trying to prove you wrong.
R.A. Salvatore
#58. Because the truth of it was, she was either going to save Raphael . . . or die trying.
D.B. Reynolds
#59. You can die trying to get along with a disagreeable man," she said, and I put a star beside it when I wrote it down and then taped it to the rear-view mirror for the rest of the drive. She hadn't said "abusive," I noticed; she had said that just disagreeable could kill you.
Debby Bull
#60. I moved forward. Gut-check time. Now or never, do or die-all of that inspirational BS. Kill my enemies or die trying.
Amanda Bonilla
#61. You live your life and continue with all of your normal activities. I'll keep you safe," he said stepping forward to sweep a lock of hair back from her face. "Or die trying.
Aprilynne Pike
#62. This shit only happens in the movies. ~ How to start living or die trying
Vicki Wilson
#64. Nothing is impossible until you quit or die trying.
Wes Fesler
#65. Get rich or die trying
50 Cent
#68. I'd rather make a thousand mistakes trying for a better life, than to die not making any mistakes at all.
Steven Aitchison
#69. Don't try to help people to 'not die', help them to enjoy life!
Bernie Siegel
#70. Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
Thomas Paine
#71. If he had a bloody gash across his throat and a physiker was trying to sew it up, Lamora would steal the needle and thread and die laughing.
Scott Lynch
#72. How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.
Beth Revis
#73. I'm not Sisyphus trying to restrain death. Illyria is a soldier. If it's her time, it's her time. I'm not at war with Atropos. It's her will to take us whenever she likes. My only goal is to die with dignity. (Stryker)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#74. You can ask or demand anything of me, but never to let you die without trying to save you. The day you die, I die.
Robert Jordan
#75. Do I really want to spend my whole life trying not to die by mistake?
Amanda Seyfried
#76. Because once the force field blew, you'd be the first ones they'd try to capture, and the less you knew, the better," says Haymitch. "The first ones? Why?" I say, trying to hang on to the train of thought. "For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive," says Finnick.
Suzanne Collins
#77. If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [ ... ] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.
Curtis Jackson
#78. If someone accidentally ingests sodium azide, you shouldn't try to resuscitate the person because you could die, too, giving CPR. This is a highly toxic chemical.
William Davis
#79. I was trying to take the easy way out by running away from everything. No matter the pain, I will keep living. So when I die, I'll feel I did the best I could.
Koala
#80. They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.
Tom DeLonge
#81. We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.
Stephen King
#82. You are not special. There is no plan for you. Nothing happens for a reason. Just try not to die and shut up.
Alec Sulkin
#83. You gotta help me get out of here! They're trying to kill me. I'm gonna die. I've got $35,000 missing. Those two women took it. They're trying to kill me. You gotta help me. Cut me loose! Cut me loose!
Jeannie Walker
#84. Why not stop trying to prevent posterity being silent about you? You were born to die, and a silent funeral is less bothersome.
Seneca.
#85. So when good leaders don't want their people to die, they spend quite some time trying to work out how to achieve things without going to war. It's that simple!
Melina Marchetta
#86. There's a formality in academia that can't be ignored, even if a man is busy with other things, like trying not to die.
Randy Pausch
#87. Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.
Tom Vanderbilt
#88. It's quite a library, anyway," she said, trying to sound upbeat. "I've begun to think of it as more graveyard than library. End of the line, you know. Where book-of-the-month club comes to die." As
Matthew J. Sullivan
#89. All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
Vincent D'Onofrio
#90. The Spirit tells me - Fidel Castro will die - in the 90s. Oooh my! Some will try to kill him and they will not succeed. But there will come a change in his physical health, and he will not stay in power, and Cuba will be visited of God.
Benny Hinn
#92. I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in some way someday, and that they'll face horrible things along the way, I don't know - I think that's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing.
Scott M. Gimple
#94. Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry.
Anthony Liccione
#95. I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40.
John Lennon
#96. The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.
Vincent Cassel
#97. With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing.
Dave Franco
#98. The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
Larry Flynt
#99. I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.
GG Allin
#100. Why didn't you let me die? You could have finally been free."
"I gave up trying to imagine a world without you." - Essallie & Kayden
Alivia Anders
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