If You Try Hard Enough Quotes

#1. I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us to use the talent that is multiplied well beyond this room ... There are millions of women out there who ... need more than, Honey, you can do it if you try hard enough.

Anne-Marie Slaughter

#2. Anything can be a bucket if you try hard enough and believe.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough.

John Wyndham

#4. There's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough.

Nick Hornby

#5. If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

Christopher Meloni

#6. You can be bored with anything if you try hard enough.

Samuel R. Delany

#7. As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

Lori Greiner

#8. As hard as we might try, we will never improve ourselves enough. We must be saved from outside ourselves.

Andy Nash

#9. Coincidence", he finally said. "Statisticans looking for connections can always find odd coincidences and statistical anomalies, if they try hard enough.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. I just want to do musicals. it's hard enough just to do musicals. No matter how hard I try, I think it's only getting harder. Even If I try harder, there are problems that I just can't deal with. I don't know why it's become like this.

Cheon Eunbi

#11. It's said that you can never go home again, and it's true enough, of course. But the opposite is also true. You must go back, and you always go back, and you can never stop going back, no matter how hard you try.

Gregory David Roberts

#12. Do something you like that you feel is important. Don't worry about making money at it right away. If you try hard and long enough you will figure out a way to do it. Better to die happy than die rich.

Peter Menzel

#13. When God says hold up, wait, pray, it's not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung beetle certain that if we try hard enough we might be able to gain a little traction on our own

Heather Choate Davis

#14. You can't escape an assasin," He leaned forward, shadows swallowing his eyes. "Hangings, bumbling bureaucrats, dishonest crewman, jail - those you can talk your way out of, you try hard enough. But this kind of death is the is the only kind of death.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#15. A basic rule of mathematical life: if the universe hands you a hard problem, try to solve an easier one instead, and hope the simple version is close enough to the original problem that the universe doesn't object.

Jordan Ellenberg

#16. I try to be green as much as I can and it's hard. I feel like I'm never doing enough. For me as an actor, there's only so many things I can do, and this is a way, through a film, to teach and hopefully get the message out to young kids.

Zac Efron

#17. For who would I be if I tried to be someone besides Jane? The poser of the world try so hard to be what they are not, and yet ... how fatigued they must be Perhaps I am not smart enough to be one of them. Nor strong enough in constitution.

Nancy Moser

#18. People don't change that much. Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in. That is hard enough (Buckingham and Coffman 1999).

Jim Highsmith

#19. Sukhvinder is easily discouraged and needs to have more faith in her abilities. There! You see? Your teacher is saying you dont try hard enough, Sukhvinder.

J.K. Rowling

#20. You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.

Taylor Hanson

#21. If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them

Marilyn Manson

#22. I never think about records. I focus on my race and try to get onto the podium consistently. It's hard enough to do that.

Brittany Bowe

#23. One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.

Meghan O'Rourke

#24. When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.

Jenny Hval

#25. It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.

Jay Cutler

#26. The common belief that everyone can do anything if they just try hard enough is a formula for inefficiency at best and for complete failure at worst.

W.J. King

#27. I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way ... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#28. I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

Jack Nicholson

#29. If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

Gordon Moore

#30. The basis of the Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do.
Ruth Swain in History of the Rain

Niall Williams

#31. I wish I were brave, although I try. I work too hard and don't play enough. Too much work ethic, not enough 'fun'.

Danielle Steel

#32. Maybe if I try hard enough, we'll fall into each other and become one single person and we can share our pain instead of carrying it by ourselves.

Jessica Sorensen

#33. I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!

E.D.E.N. Southworth

#34. If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

Frederik Pohl

#35. The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. ( ... ) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard.

Niall Williams

#36. Simply put, this is one insight we heard echoed by tens of thousands of great managers:
People don't change that much.
Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out.
Try to draw out what was left in.
That is hard enough.

Marcus Buckingham

#37. It's hard enough to make a good song and a good recording of that song. But to try to tailor it to some outside force is just like - It's never been a factor in what I've done or what the band's done.

James Iha

#38. Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.

Robert Breault

#39. No matter how hard you try, it's just never good enough for those that want to see you fall.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#40. Jacey, you try and see the good in everyone. That's your mistake. You think that if you look hard enough, you'll find it, that everyone has something in them that deserves you. But that's so fucking wrong. Very few people deserve you. And that includes me.

Courtney Cole

#41. See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.

Dennis Sharpe

#42. I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

John Huston

#43. If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

A.J. Liebling

#44. Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy.

Frederick Lenz

#45. In India, the sapling was planted by the nation's founders, who lived long enough (and worked hard enough) to nurture it to adulthood. Those who came afterwards could disturb and degrade the tree of democracy but, try as they might, could not uproot or destroy it.

Ramachandra Guha

#46. Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.

J.A. Konrath

#47. I just always try to find an interesting story and tell it well. That's a hard enough thing to do, whether it's a piece of fiction or it's a small piece of reality. I just look for good story.

Paul Haggis

#48. Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

Rodney Crowell

#49. When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#50. Since the fall of the human race, we've been alternately telling ourselves that we are good, that if we try hard enough we'll be good enough, or that being or that being good is an impossibility, so we should just give up and have fun.

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#51. How to succeed? Try hard enough.

Malcolm Forbes

#52. (UGO, about Crank) I see the addiction to video games because you want to win them and it's just hard enough so you'd want to keep playing it over and over to try to figure it out. I definitely feel the movie is like a game at times but I'm not a huge videogame lover.

Amy Smart

#53. I try to stay sane and grounded by hunkering down, eating right, and exercising. I make a routine of spin class, yoga, and Pilates, places I push my body so hard I can lose my mind. Cutting out caffeine and sugar, being mindful, and getting enough rest are important.

Jaime Murray