Top 100 Quotes About Always Trying
#2. I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
Edward Abbey
#3. The goal is always just trying to stretch yourself as an actor.
Andrew Scott
#4. Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
David Soul
#5. She has been trying to pull her worth from him for so long. She has been trying to extract her beauty from his skin. She has been dying to be loved by him again ... but he will always leave her empty
Coco J. Ginger
#6. I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.
Jason Aldean
#7. I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#8. Always try to create positivity. Even when people aren't.
Calum Hood
#9. A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.
Manny Montana
#10. I assumed it was someone trying to sell me something. They're always calling to sell. Once they said if I sent in a check for $99 I'd be pre-approved for a credit card, and I said, Right, sure, and if I step under a pigeon I'm preapproved for a load of shit
Nicole Krauss
#11. I play a lot of Playstation, and always trying to look pretty for the girls.
Freddy Adu
#12. But thats not love, he thought, thats not what she wants, nor what any of them want, they do not want you to find yourself in them, they want instead that you should lose yourself in them. And yet, he thought, they are always trying to find themselves in you.
James Jones
#13. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better.
Devon Michael
#14. an idealist is a hypocrite, because he is always trying to become what he is not, instead of being and understanding what he is.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#15. The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.
Darren Criss
#16. I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.
Wes Borland
#17. We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.
Sakyong Mipham
#18. I'm always trying to pop up in different genres, what interests me. Sometimes I just like to throw myself into new situations to see what it feel like.
Dylan McDermott
#20. Sometimes, it's not so bad to listen to some one talk about weapons or horses - or medicine. Honestly, when someone is trying to talk to you about those things, the important thing they're always saying is that they care enough about what you think to try to share themselves with you.
Breeana Puttroff
#21. A sort of transaction went on between them, in which she was on one side, and life was on another, and she was always trying to get the better of it, as it was of her.
Virginia Woolf
#22. Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.
Phyllis McGinley
#23. I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.
Joe Eszterhas
#24. I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
K'naan
#25. I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.
Marcy Kaptur
#26. Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
Steve Martin
#27. If you run away from trouble, it always follows.'
Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying.
Tanith Lee
#28. spite of the tragedy in her childhood and the ever-present press of war, she had mostly considered herself happy. There was almost always something to take delight in, if you were trying.
Laini Taylor
#29. I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!
Kate Walsh
#30. I'm actually not a very good driver, to be honest with you. I'm a scatterbrain driver. I'm not very focused. I'm always trying to find the right music station or put on a new CD or trying to eat something.
Lauren Lee Smith
#32. Never look for perfection, You will Never get it,
but consistent trying will always bring you closer.
Nitish Sharma
#33. I always try and tell dudes that are younger than me is that because of the Internet everyone can just be by themselves doing something, but the importance of a group is being able to have some sort of competition.
Earl Sweatshirt
#34. We are like broom. We keep on trying to wipe out emotions from our life but during the course we always remain with it.
Chandan Sharma
#35. Rushing, rushing, rushing. We are always rushing. Never have enough time here, always trying to make our way there. Need to have left here five minutes ago, need to be there now.
Cecelia Ahern
#36. Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.
Rajneesh
#37. Do you always drive this way?" "What way?" "As if we're trying to outrun an earthquake.
J.D. Robb
#38. Well, you're either lovers or you're wanting to be lovers or you're trying not to be lovers so you can be friends, but any way you look at it, sex is always looming in the picture like a shadow, like an undertow.
Andrew Schneider
#39. When you're always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness.
Dale Archer
#40. Every day I am aware of the flow and constant change; perhaps I am at the edge of discovering what more our bodies might be able to teach about the spirit of life. At least, I am always exploring and trying to understand our relationship to the whole universe.
Ruth Bernhard
#41. In a way, I am a psychological transsexual, always trying to "pass" for a normal person but being clocked every time.
Augusten Burroughs
#42. When you make a film it is like asking yourself a question. When it is finished, you know the answer. Ultimately with all of cinema, we are just trying to learn about ourselves. I have always used the opportunity to make a film to learn more about myself, which I am still doing.
Francis Ford Coppola
#43. This life we have is a process of becoming holy. Though Christ is the redeemer, it's up to us to have a relationship with God. Without a relationship, we'll always be lacking and trying to find fulfillment in this world, and we know what the world offers can never satisfy our need.
T.K. Chapin
#44. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.
Susan Wells Bennett
#45. Oh, she just happened to be a friend of the producer's. Or, oh, they've been trying to get her from the beginning and she just had a spot open up. There are always little loopholes, so I don't take anything personally anymore.
Ellen Muth
#46. It was always just trying to move to the next limit. I didn't think about making the major leagues - every kid has that dream, I had it, but when I was in Little League I just wanted to make the junior high team. When I was in junior high, I wanted to make the Varsity team.
Jim Abbott
#47. I always try to remember that praise and a slap on your back is only 6 inches away from a kick up the arse!
Anthony Foley
#48. Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.
Marcus Garvey
#49. You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.
Jon Turteltaub
#50. Inej was always trying to wring little bits of decency from him.
Leigh Bardugo
#51. When I write, my brain moves faster than my hands so I'm always trying to picture things.
John Lydon
#52. I've always liked long, flowing clothes, ... I used to rummage around in my grandmother's trunks trying to find them. I love the feeling of chiffon and lace.
Stevie Nicks
#53. I always try to sacrifice my body for the team.
Troy Polamalu
#54. I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to do it differently. I love to travel, I love art, I love fashion. I love going to great restaurants and trying different things. Different cultures are inspiring to me.
Molly Sims
#55. I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.
Kelli O'Hara
#56. I am a competitive person with myself. I always find new goals to achieve, new challenges to breakthrough, and I try and do something new every day. And I'm highly competitive with myself.
Hilary Swank
#57. You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I ask it early in the interview.
Chuck Klosterman
#58. What you're always trying to achieve in a creative relationship is one that is egoless ... ideas belong to the collective. If you can disassociate your own ego from your idea, then, almost always, everybody will arrive at the same decision as to what is best.
Dave Genn
#59. I think it's important that you always transform if you can. That's what I was trained to do. You try and hide yourself as much as you can - that's the key to longevity.
Tom Hardy
#60. I can't forget things that way. There's only one thing for it, and that's to admit everything and accept everything, and find some way of living that doesn't mean always sitting on top of a chest of grudges, trying to keep the lid from opening.
Ellis Peters
#61. I was very active. I was always all over the place trying to do a million things, just into this activity. If you asked me when I was 14 what I wanted to be: "Activist, first, is my occupation. I am an activist."
Lauryn Hill
#62. We humans are here because nothing can be perfect. There always have to be some living things that are unsatisfied, itchy, trying too hard. If it was all just animals and rocks and lettuce, the gods wouldn't feel like they had enough to do.
Miranda July
#63. I'm always looking for ways to connect myself with American people and that American feeling. I'm trying to pick up on the feeling of places, like the Los Angeles feeling or the New York feeling ... Los Angeles is much better for me that way.
Takashi Murakami
#64. I try to live right. I always try to adhere to what I think is right, and that, to me, is the most important part of creative work.
Sam Maloof
#65. Make it a habit of always putting stuff in the same place. By doing this, you never waste mental energy trying to figure where you left what you searching.
Scott Bandler
#66. Life is like a war. There will always be people trying to shoot you down. But it's your choice whether you're going to surrender, fight back, or dodge the bullet.
Peyton
#67. I suppose it's natural to some people to please without trying, and others to always say and do the wrong thing in the wrong place.
Louisa May Alcott
#68. People are always trying to find the next groovy thing, and it hasn't gone back to painting ... I'd like it to go back to painting. I'm sick of all this photography and video. There's so much of it, it's almost annoying.
Cindy Sherman
#69. I have a company, and I've got to think about that. I'm trying to do my best there, and that's a much harder task. We recycle as much as possible, and we conserve. But I've always been one to save everything - I even walk up stairs on the very inside or the very outside to not wear out the tread.
Vivienne Westwood
#70. I'm not good with these types of girls, I had thought as Avena lay there in the middle of the bed, crying silently, trying to cover herself up. I always ended up ruining them.
L. Jayne
#71. I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.
Jay Maisel
#72. From a very young age, militarism and trying to solve the world's problems through militarism is something that has always resonated with me as being a bad idea.
Justin Sane
#73. Looks can be deceiving. You can't always tell what's going on inside a person from outside. People put on a brave face when they're trying to get over heartbreak, but that doesn't mean they have.
Alison G. Bailey
#74. I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me.
Liz Phair
#75. In a diplomatic negotiation, you always meet the same the other side all the time. Even if you should succeed in outsmarting him or in pressuring him, it only sets up a cycle in which he will try to get even.
Henry A. Kissinger
#76. I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.
Toby Jones
#77. I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.
Jenny Holzer
#78. In Hollywood, we're always looking for the next big thing that will help us feel fulfilled. As actors, we're always trying to be someone else. Things like therapy help us learn how to be ourselves. Sometimes.
Jen Calonita
#79. My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.
Rodney Dangerfield
#80. Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.
G. E. M. Anscombe
#81. I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
David Levithan
#82. What I believe in is being transparent and truthful and always trying to get the facts right. People will make their own judgment of whether or not they want to trust you based on how transparent you are with them and the principles that you bring to the game.
Jeremy Scahill
#83. I've always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? We're not protesting from the outside. We're inside.
Gil Scott-Heron
#85. Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication
Groucho Marx
#86. I don't set goals for myself too much, but I'm always trying to write that one great song.
Sheryl Crow
#87. Too many leaders try to do a little bit of 25 things and get nothing done. They are very popular because they always say yes. But they get nothing done.
Peter Drucker
#88. Weirdly enough, I don't like to pretend. I try to use things in me, and translate them into the situation and the characters, so it always needs to run through my own veins.
Noomi Rapace
#89. I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.
Tom Lehrer
#90. I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
#91. You always try to play it off cool, but even if I think I have a certain laidback body language when I'm meeting someone who I greatly admire, I still have this horrible tendency to go bright red.
Rose Leslie
#92. A lazy person will try to always find some way to do something; they'll always be looking for ways of doing something faster, more efficiently, and if you really want to control the world, that's a really sort of hubristic notion - excessive pride, the thing that Zeus zaps you for having.
Larry Wall
#93. In terms of my own work ethic, I've always been a determined person. When I'm focused on something, I try to see it through.
Ted Alexandro
#94. I always try to enjoy the game. It is easy to say but it's true. Every game is different, sometimes you feel better inside you but you have to enjoy your game.
Rafael Van Der Vaart
#95. If you have the ability to work with people smarter than you, always try to be the least smartest person in the room and surround yourself with talent, because iron sharpens iron.
Jake M. Johnson
#97. My focus is on always trying to treat the inevitable highs and lows of life with the same blissful, calm energy.
Kordell Stewart
#98. If you always have something in your life that you're trying to improve upon, then every day you have a reason to get out of bed, and you have a reason to achieve something and feel good.
Nick Offerman
#99. Officers have been trying for hundreds of years to outsmart soldiers and have still not learned that it cannot be done. We can always count on the native ingenuity of the American GI to save us from ourselves, and to win wars.
Colin Powell
#100. I've always thought that reviews and knowing how much your fans appreciate or don't like something, that's the sugar coating. I'm trying not to think about those things.
Chaz Bundick
