Top 100 Must Try Quotes
#1. You must try to make the most of all that comes but also don't forget to learn a lot of all that goes.
William C. Brown
#2. The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.
Diego Rivera
#3. Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky
I know your fed up but you must try to survive
Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by
Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.
Macklemore
#4. Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.
John Wooden
#5. Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.
Margery Wilson
#7. Certainly one must try everything, but only to become more certain what God's way is.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#8. For once you must try not to shirk the facts:
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
Bertolt Brecht
#9. You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something - with something that is a little like love.
Henrik Ibsen
#10. In order to become whole we must try, in a long process, to discover our own personal truth, a truth that may cause pain before giving us a new sphere of freedom. If we choose instead to content ourselves with intellectual "wisdom," we will remain in the sphere of illusion and self-deception.
Alice Miller
#11. You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.
Sherwood Anderson
#12. Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not.
Joseph Fielding Smith
#13. Make your last journey
from this strange world
soar for the heights
where there is no more
separation of you and your home
God has created
your wings not to be dormant
as long as you are alive
you must try more and more
to use your wings to show you're alive
Rumi
#14. In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Hannah Arendt
#15. It is very easy to take for granted the phenomenon that we are each alive, but we must try not to.
Alex Grey
#16. Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion.
Allan Bloom
#17. Pray, what's the nature of his trouble?" Prudence asked solicitously.
"Oh, cursed bad news, my boy. That old aunt of his from whom he has expectations has rallied, and they say she'll last another ten years. Poor old Devereux, y'know! Must try and raise his spirits.
Georgette Heyer
#18. All children are precious in the eyes of God. If we want to better humanity ... we must try and better the lives of all of it's children first.
Timothy Pina
#19. Death and suffering can't matter nearly as much as I think they do. Since they are so common, my taking them so seriously must mean that I am insane. I must try to be saner. Which
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.
Arpad Busson
#21. [Belafonte] was a good teacher and looked after me. He said, 'You have such great talent, you must try not to be a tornado - be like a submarine. It was good advice when I found myself speaking at the UN Committee Against Apartheid and then the UN General Assembly.
Miriam Makeba
#22. I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life.
Pope Francis
#23. All men have a measure of cowardice in them. I learned that love of one's mates can overcome your fears. I learned that every survivor of this horror must try to live a good life because he lives for many men.
Leon Uris
#24. As designers we are influenced both consciously and subconsciously by everything we see around ourselves. Still, we always must try to avoid anything that has been defined as the latest and greatest "trend" in design.
Jeff Fisher
#25. Time is short, my strength is limited, the office is a horror, the apartment is noisy, and if a pleasant, straightforward life is not possible, then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres.
Franz Kafka
#26. It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.
C.S. Lewis
#28. Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.
Vincent Van Gogh
#29. Once again the historian who wishes to understand this difficult period must try to read between the lines. It
Donald Kagan
#30. I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.
Franz Kafka
#31. You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.
Jane Hirshfield
#32. The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Gildersleeve
#33. We ... must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is.
Gary Snyder
#34. I must try to practice all the virtues I would have my little girls possess, for I was their example.
Louisa May Alcott
#35. Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful.
Miguel Syjuco
#36. One must try, everyday, to expand one's limits.
Mas Oyama
#38. I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.
Virginia Woolf
#39. For glory lit, and life alive, for goals unreached and aims to strive. All men must try, the wind did see. It is the test, it is the dream.
Brandon Sanderson
#40. You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on nature's own hues and tints.
William Merritt Chase
#41. But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith .
Vincent Van Gogh
#42. I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#43. We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.
Dalai Lama XIV
#44. There are some things I must try to say before the still watches come again in which the things unsaid hurt so and cry out in the heart to be uttered.
Erik Larson
#45. [Camus] The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.
Olivier Todd
#46. For fifty years now, we have tried big government. Yet too many people remain trapped in despair. Now, we must try a new way.
Marco Rubio
#47. I hate this Gladiator shit," Sabin muttered.
"Yes, well, where do you think the Romans learned from?"
Sabin sputtered for a minute. "You're trying to tell me Harpies are responsible for this? That the Romans learned from them?"
"I must try only if you are lacking intelligence.
Gena Showalter
#48. The novelist can't successfully depict such horrifying reality. But she can, and must, try, to bear witness. There are many ways of doing this; the mode I prefer is indirect.
Teju Cole
#49. If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can't, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#50. Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.
Craig S. Keener
#51. You have a limited time to stay on earth. You must try to use that period for the purpose of transforming your country into what you desire it to be: a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist country. And that is a great task.
Nelson Mandela
#52. So long as there is gold underneath, who cares about the dust on top? Literature! That old whore! We must try to dose her with mercury and pills and clean her out from top to bottom, she has been so ultra-screwed by filthy pricks!
Gustave Flaubert
#53. I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?
David Clement-Davies
#54. Every day you must try to make yourself grow. This you can do.
Maxwell Maltz
#55. I must try to remember that Art with Small Boys is best left to professionals, or people with ready access to tranquilizers.
Gil McNeil
#56. I must try and be good, or clever, or eccentric, for it was very evident that pretty I could never be
Rhoda Broughton
#57. I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.
N.K. Jemisin
#58. In Him is Everything. Him you must try to find.
Anandamayi Ma
#59. Sometimes we get caught up in our troubles and our problems and we let life slip away, but life is precious, all of life, and one must try to take in as much of it as possible.
Yanni
#60. No one is perfect. Even the most confident people have insecurities. At some point in of our lives, we may feel we lack something. That is reality. We must try to live as per our capability.
Anil Sinha
#61. Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try.
Michael N. Castle
#62. You must try to change some things in your society and all good changes first start attacking old rotten ideas, storming common cultural stupidities and raiding spiritual lies, fearlessly and even ruthlessly! And never forget that you can defat ideas only with ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. To establish that a rule is likely to be true, one must try to prove it false.
Stuart Sutherland
#64. Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.
Myles Munroe
#65. To begin to understand the gorgeous fever that is consciousness, we must try to understand the senses and what they can tell us about the ravishing world we have the privilege to inhabit.
Diane Ackerman
#66. If I heard a girl crying help
I would go to save her;
But you hardly ever hear those words.
Dear children, you must try to say
Something when you are in need.
Don't confuse hunger with greed;
And don't wait until you are dead.
Ruth Stone
#67. In this world we must try to be kind to one another.
Heather Wolf
#68. You are a slow learner, Winston."
"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four."
"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
George Orwell
#69. You must try to understand, my dearest one. It was not treason, was but a dream bred before its time, that the King should not be accountable only to God. No mortal man ought to be entrusted with power such as that, for any king's son may be born a fool.
Sharon Kay Penman
#70. The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
Elia Kazan
#71. We are given chances, and after that it is up to us. If we have neither the courage nor the wit to grasp them and follow them up, then they are gone, and gone for ever. At least we must try.
Mary Stewart
#72. Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
Queen Victoria
#73. Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.
Philip K. Dick
#74. We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom.
... Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.
Peggy Noonan
#75. We 're all yearning for a wedge of sky, aren 't we? I suspect Zgod plants these yearlings in us so we'll at least try and change the course of things. We must try, that's all" - Lucretia Mott in The Invention of Wings
Sue Monk Kidd
#76. Because you loved, you promised. You must try harder to keep that promise.
Mary Jo Putney
#77. The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
Alan Ayckbourn
#78. The wind is rising! . . . We must try to live!
Paul Valery
#79. The greylag mate for life? If ye kill a grown goose, hunting, ye must always wait, for the mate will come to mourn. Then ye must try to kill the second, too, for otherwise it will grieve itself to death, calling through the skies for the lost one.
Diana Gabaldon
#80. So whoever loves must try to act as if he had a great work: he must be much alone and go into himself and collect himself and hold fast to himself; he must work; he must become something!
Rainer Maria Rilke
#81. There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.
Jack Vance
#82. As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!
William Makepeace Thackeray
#83. The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one's own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere.
Raymond Aron
#84. No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.
Kate Atkinson
#85. Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this ...
Stevie Smith
#86. Understand that to achieve success in your efforts, you must try to be reliable and on time for everything -your job, dinner parties, doctor appointments- everything.
Dianna DeLonzor
#87. I am forever fettered to myself [ ... ] and that's what I must try to live with.
Franz Kafka
#88. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
John Cassavetes
#89. This is so rich a country that luxury has developed at the expense of necessities, and even the destitute partake of the luxury. We are the rich country of the world, like Dives at the feast. We must try hard, we must study to be poor like Lazarus at the gate, who was taken into Abraham's bosom.
Dorothy Day
#90. There should always be a balance in life, and you must try to find that in yours. Then you might find the happiness you seek.
Lucinda Riley
#91. I have been very, very happy. Mamma always said that even if there wasn't any happiness one must try to be happy without it.
Angela Thirkell
#92. I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.
Albert Einstein
#93. Sometimes a writer, like an acrobat, must try a trick that is too much for him.
E.B. White
#94. Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.
Amelia Earhart
#95. Ava realises she has no idea what a mother might think if you took to her child with a machete, irrespective of the moral righteousness of it. Surely as a writer she should have a greater understanding of what goes on in the minds of others. She must try harder.
Mark O'Flynn
#96. I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls.
Mahatma Gandhi
#97. If there are no stars on the sky, you must try to be happy with the shining streetlights!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
Dinah Maria Mulock
#99. The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.
George Leigh Mallory
#100. In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual approach of St. Dominic, the easy conversations about things that matter of St. Philip Neri, the manual labor of St. Benedict.
Peter Maurin
