Top 100 Do Not Try Quotes
#1. Do not try to serve Jesus Christ with only your works - fall in love with Him!
Sunday Adelaja
#2. If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the present moment. You will be caught in the past. You will close the door that gave rise to the experience in the first place.
Leonard Jacobson
#3. If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.
Bernard Williams
#4. Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness.
Sri Chinmoy
#5. Do not try to excuse your faults; try to correct them
John Bosco
#6. Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. Do not try and do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not win it for them.
T.E. Lawrence
#8. Concerning the loved ones who have passed on ... do not try to make me believe that they are doing nothing, merely resting, careless ever. That would imply the condition of Hell, not of Heaven.
G. Campbell Morgan
#9. Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
Anatole France
#10. Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon - that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon.
The Wachowski Brothers
#11. But as long as you think, "I am doing this," or "I have to do this," or "I must attain something special," you are actually not doing anything ... when you do not try to do anything special, then you do something. When there is no gaining idea in what you do, then you do something.
Shunryu Suzuki
#12. Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. What you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
Ajahn Chah
#13. Although my everyday artwork is tattoo oriented, I definitely do not try to limit my art or art mediums.
William Webb
#14. Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless, that is already a selfish idea. Selflessness will be there when you do not try anything.
Shunryu Suzuki
#15. Do not try to please others by changing your beliefs. Your beliefs can be the force that can change the system.
Henry Johnson Jr
#16. Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.
Herbert Spencer
#17. There are things we really do not understand; and much more than this, there are things we really do not try to understand!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. But do not try to get ahead of Donna and initiate the complaining, no matter how sure you are that she'll agree. Because Donna will leave you hanging every time.
Tina Fey
#19. Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal proportions.
A.H. Septimius
#20. If you are lost inside the beauties of nature, do not try to be found!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. The big rules of knife fighting are (a) do not try it at home, and (b) the whole point is never, ever use the blade. It is there to distract your opponent. While he stares at the gleaming steel, you kick his balls to kingdom come
he's all yours. Just a tip!
Keith Richards
#22. Entrepreneurs do not try and create new types of smartphone technologies now because they know it's pointless: They're going to get sued almost immediately.
Charles Duhigg
#23. Do not try to be the best, but never forget to try your best.
Debasish Mridha
#24. On open ground, do not try to block the enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your allies.
Sun Tzu
#25. Peace comes from within; do not try to seek it without.
Gautama Buddha
#26. Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.
Master P
#27. Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.
Zhuangzi
#28. Do not try to drive pain away by pretending it is not real. If you seek serenity in oneness, pain will vanish of its own accord.
Sengcan
#29. Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.
Francine Rivers
#30. What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!
Thomas Carlyle
#31. Stand firm in the Lord, Hadassah. Stand firm and let him fight your battles. Do not try to fight alone.
Francine Rivers
#32. I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#33. My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.
Jim Harrison
#34. Do not try to stir and arouse faith from within. How often I have tried to do that, and made a fool of myself! You cannot stir up faith from the depths of your heart. Leave your heart, and look into the face of Christ, and listen to what He tells you about how He will keep you.
Andrew Murray
#35. But if we do not try, the dream will remain a dream.
Anamika Mishra
#37. Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.
Jaggi Vasudev
#38. Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.
Arrian
#39. Do not hate or fear the artist in yourselves ... Honor and love him ... do not try to possess him. Trust him as nobly as you trust tomorrow. Only the artist in yourself is more truthful than the night.
E. E. Cummings
#40. I think I possess because I do not try to give,
Trying to give, I see that I have nothing.
Rene Daumal
#41. Powerful people do not try to control other people. They know it doesn't work, and that it's not their job. Their job is to control themselves.
Danny Silk
#42. I am persuaded that the chief reason why we do not enjoy religion is that we do not try to enjoy it.
Adoniram Judson
#43. Do not try to convert others to your point of view, except by holding it and living accordingly.
Wallace D. Wattles
#44. To feel the joy of presence, do not try to express or impress.
Debasish Mridha
#45. You already are everything you are seeking. Do not try to become something else.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#46. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Brigitte Trinkle
#47. Dreams is full of mystery and magic ... Do not try to understand them.
Roald Dahl
#48. Do not try to dress for the other women who will verbally and otherwise judge your appearance. Their opinion doesn't matter.
Gary Yarbrough
#49. I think if you have lost a great happiness and try to recall it, you are only asking for sorrow, but if you do not try to dwell on the happiness, sometimes you find it dwelling in your heart and body, silent but sustaining.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#50. Do not try to understand love, control it or hold it.
Although love is humble, it is strong and suffers all, And if it be true, it will always find its way.
Nancy B. Brewer
#51. Always remember that your personality is your big asset. Do not try to emulate another person. Real personality comes from the heart.
Thomas Watson Jr.
#52. Do not try to find out - we're forbidden to know - what end the gods have in store for me, or for you.
Horace
#53. Trust God where you cannot see Him. Do not try to penetrate the cloud He brings over you; rather look to the bow that is on it. The mystery is God's; the promise is yours.
John Ross Macduff
#54. Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
Idries Shah
#55. Cheat your landlord if you can
and must
but do not try to shortchange the Muse.
William S. Burroughs
#56. Do not try and argue the quality of literature to me," Notak said, inflectionless. "You will lose.
S.G. Night
#57. EACH DAY OF HUMAN life contains joy and anger, pain and pleasure, darkness and light, growth and decay. Each moment is etched with nature's grand design-do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.
Morihei Ueshiba
#58. When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Saint Francis De Sales
#59. I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.
Pep Guardiola
#60. If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.
Helen Keller
#61. do not try to remove evil from a world that was actually created to cradle and preserve it - and that would be a fool's mission anyway.
P. Mattern
#62. You, and you alone, are the person who should take the measure of your own success ... I do not try to be better than anyone else. I only try to be better than myself.
Dan Jansen
#63. Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try ... When your life is governed by the divine nature instead of the self-centered nature you have found inner peace.
Peace Pilgrim
#64. Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic. Do not defend God's word, but testify to it. Trust to the Word. It is a ship loaded to the very limits of its capacity. -Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Eric Metaxas
#65. When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.
Rudyard Kipling
#66. Do not try to make circumstances fit your plans. Make plans that fit the circumstances.
George S. Patton
#67. Do not try to prove that you are the most important person or that you are the lord's anointed
Sunday Adelaja
#68. Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.
Sri Chinmoy
#69. Do not try to understand love, rather, stand in love and observe what happens around you.
Nityananda Das
#70. Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.
Charles Spurgeon
#71. Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.
Farkas Bolyai
#72. Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers ... This is not yet a scientific age ...
Richard P. Feynman
#73. Do not try to understand. What I feel for you cannot be limited to words. I know that you have moved on with your life, yet I stand here, frozen in the midst of your spirit.
Leigh Hershkovich
#74. Do not try to make your headline so short that it fails to express your idea properly. It's more important to say what you want to say - even if it takes 20 words to do than make it short and fail to express your idea.
John Caples
#75. Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start observing your own mind. Do not try to escape; do not be afraid of your thinking.
Rama Swami
#77. Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.
Jaggi Vasudev
#78. Some things will always remain a mystery at this level of consciousness, and it is right that they should. So do not try to solve all the mysteries. Give the universe a chance. It will unfold itself in due course. Enjoy the experience of becoming.
Neale Donald Walsch
#79. If there is any method in the way I take pictures, I believe it lies in this: See the subject first. Do not try to force it to be a picture of this, that or the other thing. Stand apart from it. Then something will happen. The subject will reveal itself.
Bill Brandt
#80. Do not try to predict the effects your actions will have, because you can't. Instead, encourage people to adapt their actions to realize the overall intention as they observe what is actually happening. Give them boundaries which are broad enough to take decisions for themselves and act on them.
Stephen Bungay
#81. If we do not try, we will not know.
Ayya Khema
#82. This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on.
Swami Vivekananda
#83. Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.
John Vianney
#84. Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.
Epictetus
#85. We are supposed to be different. Do not try to put round pegs in square holes. When people look at us, believe in yourself.
Manoj Arora
#86. Do not try to do everything. Do one thing well.
Steve Jobs
#87. Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it.
C.S. Lewis
#88. Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.
William Merritt Chase
#89. If we do not try harder to remember the history of the other half of the European continent, the history of the other twentieth-century totalitarian regime, in the end it is we in the West who will not understand our past, we who will not know how our world came to be the way it is. And
Anne Applebaum
#90. Do not try to get so much that you achieve nothing. Look
Teresa Of Avila
#91. The best advice is to take it easy, respect speed limits and do not try to make up time lost in the tailbacks on the open road.
Emma Caulfield
#92. You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.
Johnny Hunt
#93. The crucifixion portrayed on our show was undertaken by the son of God, a trained professional. Do not try to crucify yourself at home.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#94. If your opponent dives on you, do not try to evade his onslaught, but fly to meet it.
Oswald Boelcke
#95. My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.
Rick Wakeman
#96. One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#97. Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ships in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. be unselfish even unto death, and work.
Swami Vivekananda
#98. Do not try to hit me again." "How about me?" Skulduggery said as he ran up behind him. "Can I hit you?
Derek Landy
#99. You can write anything you want to,
a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you write it with honesty and gusto, and do not try to make somebody believe that you are smarter than you are. What's the use? You can never be smarter than you are.
Brenda Ueland
#100. Do not try to be pretty. You were not meant to be pretty; you were meant to burn down the earth and graffiti the sky. Don't let anyone ever simplify you to just 'pretty'.
Anonymous
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