Top 100 If You Try Quotes
#1. You don't need to try to be God, you are! But if you try to be God it means you don't know you are.
Alan Watts
#2. You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.
Jonah Peretti
#3. If you try to to take my bananas from me, I will reclaim them from your cold dead hands.
Terry Pratchett
#4. If you try to put anything in the middle of the place that was originally made for God, it is going to be too small. It is going to rattle around in there.
Timothy Keller
#5. If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will become blurred, awkward, and ugly. Your sense of inner beauty has to remain a very private thing.
John O'Donohue
#6. If you try to breathe water, you will not turn into a fish, you will drown; but water is still good to drink.
Robin McKinley
#7. The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'
Matthew Macfadyen
#8. I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
Flavor Flav
#9. If you try to come off as this big-time star with an attitude, people don't like that.
Selena
#10. Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb.
Brian Setzer
#11. But life isn't neat the way a story is. And if you try to pretend it is, then you just make yourself unhappy, or screw yourself over.
Dexter Palmer
#12. Hatori: "You won't get very far if you try to threaten me in THAT outfit."
Yuki: "Thank you. So much.
Natsuki Takaya
#13. The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it's not as good as you'd hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.
Tom Holland
#14. Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.
Jim Rohn
#15. It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.
Keith Urban
#16. If you try you would never be alone; because the whole world is tired of loneliness.
M.F. Moonzajer
#17. Fine,' Jared snapped. 'But if you try cuddling up to me tonight ... so help me, O'Shea.
Ian chuckled. ' Not to sound overly arrogant, but to be perfectly honest, Jared, were I so inclined, I think I could do better.
Stephenie Meyer
#18. If you try to hold people to your standard of conduct you will go mad with disappointment and grief.
Bryant McGill
#19. If you run your business fairly; if you treat people well; if you try to move your business into areas that are making a real positive difference to other peoples lives; I think you'll A. have much pleasant life, but B. I think you'll have a much more successful business.
Richard Branson
#20. If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#21. If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.
Michel Hazanavicius
#22. The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
Salman Rushdie
#23. If you try to shoot me, I will have to shoot you back, and I promise I won't miss!
Jack Bauer
#24. There's no short-cut to becoming strong. Even if you try to look strong on the outside, that thin layer will soon fall off.
Hideaki Sorachi
#25. You write who you are somehow. Even if you try to not to. You can't help but write who you are. I'm just not a very cynical person. I believe in the humanity of people, whether it is just the guys in 'The Full Monty' or Aron Ralston.
Simon Beaufoy
#26. If you drive a car, I'll tax the street;
if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
George Harrison
#27. Here is a lesson to brand in fire across any young historian's mind: If you try to do too much, you will not do anything.
Richard Marius
#28. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to add to God's salvation you subtract. If you try to merit God's salvation you haven't believed at all, even if you try to do a little bit.
Timothy Keller
#29. that if you try once, you should try again. Keep that focus exactly where it should be - on winning.
Donald J. Trump
#30. I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.
Doc Brown
#31. Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.
Gus Van Sant
#32. If you try to shut down your angel guidance, that's the path to feeling unhappy and results in addiction.
Doreen Virtue
#33. There's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough.
Nick Hornby
#34. If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.
D.H. Lawrence
#35. All good things are possible if you try hard and stay stylish.
Susan Juby
#36. If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
#37. Holding hands at midnight 'Neath a starry sky ... Nice work if you can get it And you can get it
if you try.
Ira Gershwin
#38. You can sell a lot more books if you work with other authors than if you try to do everything all by yourself.
John Kremer
#39. About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.
Edna Ferber
#40. Humans are mysterious creatures. There comes a time when we can clearly understand even things that we can't see. It's the same with anything. If you try your best, you can understand what it's like to "try your best". If you don't try your best, you understand what it's like to "not try your best".
Sakura Tsukuba
#41. I've found in my own life, if you try to struggle against what the universe is telling you, you set yourself up for more of a battle.
Michael Stuhlbarg
#42. In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.
Richard Branson
#43. I'm back in fashion again for a while now. But I imagine that three or four years from now I'll be out again. And in another fifteen years I'll be back. If you try to write to stay in fashion, if you try to write to be the critics' darling, you become an employee.
Edward Albee
#44. I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time.
Michael Badnarik
#45. If you try to walk in my shoes, you'll end up in a bookstore.
Anonymous
#46. If you try, you've got a chance at succeeding. Failure isn't guaranteed. If you don't even try at all, you've already failed.
Christi Barth
#47. If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.
Catherine Deneuve
#48. You can make it if you try. Don't give up or quit the fight. If you believe, you will see, you can do it.
Robert Karl Hanson
#49. 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
#50. If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
Paget Brewster
#51. You can't live your life in a bubble, Charlie. And you can't live Evan's life for him. He won't thank you if you try to wrap him in bubble wrap and set him on a shelf.
Tamara Hoffa
#52. One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.
Robin Ince
#53. If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.
Jim DeMint
#54. There are no good answers for such tragedies and you'll drive yourself mad if you try to find what isn't there.
Matthew Quick
#56. What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.
Chip Esten
#57. If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.
Lou Holtz
#58. So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.
Shigeru Miyamoto
#59. When I came to Mogadishu ... here was one road built by the Italians. If you try to force me to stand down, I will leave the city as I found it. I came to power with a gun; only the gun can make me go.
Siad Barre
#60. She packed a small suitcase with a few clothes and toiletries, then wheeled it to Madoc's suite. She knocked on the door, he opened it part way. "I'm moving in. If you try to keep me out again, I'm going to grab hold of a body part you like and start twisting."
Shannon K. Butcher
#61. If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
Christopher Meloni
#62. You're wasting your time if you try to make someone see reason when reason is not influencing the decision.
Scott Adams
#63. If you try once or twice to communicate and get pushed back, pretty soon you decide, To hell with it.
Richard Feynman
#64. If you try to keep your most sacred ambitions off of your weekly calendar and your most genuine traits off of your resume, then you're missing out on the power of real integrity.
Danielle LaPorte
#65. Love is like candy floss. you crave it and it looks very promising, but if you try to satisfy your hunger with it, there is nothing. Only a sweet aftertaste - if you're lucky.
Lynn Austin
#66. That becomes clear if you try to define the objects and things which supervene in each class. Odd and even, straight and curved, number, line, and shape can be defined without change but flesh, bone, and man cannot. They are like sbub nose, not like curved.
Aristotle.
#67. If you try to test a river's depths with both feet, you will drown.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#68. I could not conceive that [fans] actually wanted me to sign something. It took a long time for me to figure out (a) just say 'Thank you' and sign the thing, and (b) smile in the picture, because if you try to just half-smile you're going to look constipated.
Joss Whedon
#69. Don't be afraid. You are never really alone. Just be yourself. You don't ever have to pretend you are someone else. If you try to do that, then you don't have anything to give the world. Accept and give your gifts with love.
Jay Woodman
#70. You live on the surface," Lia told me years later. "You sometimes seem profound, but it's only because you piece a lot of surfaces together to create the impression of depth, solidity. That solidity would collapse if you try to stand it up.
Umberto Eco
#71. I'm a warrior if you try to hurt my family. And anybody I see getting it in the neck out there, I'm right there to protect them. I'm a big, strong guy who knows what he's doing. I've stopped a lot of things in the street, stopped a lot of people from getting hurt.
Paul Sorvino
#72. Sometimes your dream is so special that ... you can't kill it. You can't die even if you try. Life will find a way to fulfill it, and a way to keep you alive. Because the Earth needs dreamers to survive.
Haidji
#73. If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
Isaac Mizrahi
#74. If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.
Bobby Short
#75. Dreams are made possible if you try
Terry Fox
#76. Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.
Freddie Mercury
#77. I am an optimist ... I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.
Tom Hiddleston
#78. If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers.
Jeff Lemire
#79. This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#80. If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.
George Clooney
#81. If you try to do too much, you will not achieve anything.
Confucius
#82. I still think I love him more. It's one of those things you never know for certain because there's no way to enter all the relationship data in a computer and have it spit out a definitive answer. You can't quantify love, and if you try, you wind up focusing on misleading factors.
Emily Giffin
#83. You should just accept who you are, flaws and all, because if you try to be someone you aren't, then eventually some turkey is going to shit all over your well-crafted facade, so you might as well save yourself the effort and enjoy your zombie books.
Jenny Lawson
#84. If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
#85. If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.
Douglas Adams
#86. I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.
Nancy Grace
#87. It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.
Rachel Cohn
#88. If you try you might succeed. If you don't try you won't succeed. On motor bike racing it goes= if you fall off and get back up you might win. if you stay lying down you won't win. Keep trying
Warren Fox
#89. It just goes to show, if you try to ruin someone's life, it only gets better. You just don't get to be a part of it.
John Green
#90. If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.
Alexandra Adornetto
#91. If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.
Ben Webster
#92. If you try putting a woman on a horse when she does not want to go, she may put a knife in your ribs.
Robert Jordan
#93. If you try to leave me like this, I will haunt you until the end of your days. I will drop out of classes and become a hobo and will leave you little garbage sculptures telling you how much I love you. Every morning. Right at front of your door. You will never be rid of me.
Thomm Quackenbush
#94. A belief is only a thought you continue to think. A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability - if you try even a little bit - to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction.
Esther Hicks
#95. Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to.
John Pomfret
#96. If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?
Katha Pollitt
#97. We may not be a great power anymore, we may be into you for sixty-five trillion yuan-pegged, but we're not afraid to use our troops if our spades act up, so watch out, or we'll go fucking nuclear on your yellow asses if you try to cash in your chips.
Gary Shteyngart
#98. I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.
Johnny Cash
#99. I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.
Peter Doig
#100. If you try to look But you don't touch Then you won't touch But you'll never feel And if you don't feel You'll never cry And if you don't cry Then you'll never heal.
Harry Chapin
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