Quotes About Always Trying

#1. I don't feel as strong today as I do on other days, but I know Your strength will prevail in my weakness. The enemy is always trying to fill me with fear and doubt and make me abandon this mission. Help me ignore the lies and have courage to go on each day

Molly Evangeline

#2. The market always, in theory at least, looks ahead. And it's always trying to take in every bit of information that it can as quickly as it can. You don't really care so much if the company made a dollar last year; you want to know what it's going to make this year.

Alex Berenson

#3. Life is always trying to love us, but we need to be open if we are to see it. Fear shows us one world; and love shows us another world. We decide which world is real. And we decide which world we want to live in.

Louise Hay

#4. I'm always trying to figure out ways to one up everyone, and that's what I love about competitions. I love challenging myself and pushing the envelope.

Ryan Sheckler

#5. I'm always tweaking, always trying to make it better, constantly moving the levers and dials.

Steve Ells

#6. I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, "I haven't yet played the person staying home, the one that says, 'Good luck, honey,' or whatever." And so that's what I look for. Therefore, by virtue of that exclusion, I'm always trying to find roles that are challenging.

Geena Davis

#7. I'm still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but that's just the way I am.

Ariel Rechtshaid

#8. I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Earl King

#9. You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

Tom Robbins

#10. In essay writing, I'm trying to push the form of expository writing. I'm trying to remember, trying to reckon, trying to find connections with the world, the nation and me, but I'm always trying to push the form, too, without being too obvious that I'm trying to push the form.

Kiese Laymon

#11. You are always someone's example. Someone is always trying to follow in your footsteps. What will you leave them that is behind you?

Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#12. I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country.

Goran Visnjic

#13. Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

Eddie Redmayne

#14. To enhance your experience and consciousness, your mind is always trying to understand everything that is going on around you.

Debasish Mridha

#15. Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

Reid Hoffman

#16. It's as if there's a fumble-fingered but powerful universal force at work, always trying to put wrong things right.

Stephen King

#17. I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.

Dennis Quaid

#18. People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Alice Walker

#19. I'm always trying to gain and keep the audience's respect. I always want them to know that the show doesn't think they're stupid for watching.

Dan Harmon

#20. We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I think we want to inspire other people as well, so that's what we'll try to do through future songs.

Josh Dun

#21. Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

Patrick Marber

#22. I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#23. I try to find the core values that are so fundamental that they transcend ethnic identity. That doesn't mean I run from it. I embrace African-American culture and I love it and embrace it, but it is a part of a human identity. So I'm always trying to make a larger human statement.

Wynton Marsalis

#24. I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

Alber Elbaz

#25. It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.

John C. Danforth

#26. I was always trying to do architectural jam sessions. But it's not quite as easy as singing or playing a guitar, so I would always see wonderful live musicians and just envy them that I wasn't in that medium.

Catherine Hardwicke

#27. I am always trying to convey something that can't be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.

Franz Kafka

#28. We're always trying to break the boundaries of what a 'denim brand' can be, and we want to be respected for it.

Renzo Rosso

#29. I'd love to pop back into 'Being Human' as Adam. I love the character so much. I've never really played a character like that. I'm always playing the geek, so to play a kid who is very energetic when he wants to be, and who is always trying to get the girls, was really cool.

Craig Roberts

#30. What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal ... the kind that's always existed ... No. They couldn't care less about that.

Pablo Picasso

#31. I'm always trying to look for different roles.

Eric Close

#32. It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

Thomas Edward Brown

#33. It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

T Bone Burnett

#34. I'm always trying to figure out what God is and why matter exists and whether it contains spirit or not.

Brenda Hillman

#35. If you look at the way society is structured , it is structured to keep people overwhelmingly in a state of fear and always trying to survive, in terms of physically, in terms of terror, in terms of financially, the credit crunch, rising food prices; all this is survive, survive, survive.

David Icke

#36. The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn. The more I do it, the more I'm humbled. I'm just always trying to get better at it. I pick up a few tricks along the way.

Cliff Martinez

#37. I thought I'd find that Wholehearted people were just like me and doing all of the same things I was doing: working hard, following the rules, doing it until I got it right, always trying to know myself better, raising my kids exactly by the books ...

Brene Brown

#38. Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

Tim Burton

#39. I feel really productive. I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler. I'm always trying to keep everything together - I'm very OCD and very organized.

Kendall Jenner

#40. My body and its condition are a barometer that is always trying to tell me which direction to go for my maximum creativity, health and fulfillment. And, because I'm human, I get off track now and again but I can always get back on.

Christiane Northrup

#41. The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example. It is still clinging to one or two things which were useful once, but which are not useful now, neither are they ornamental.

Mark Twain

#42. I tend not to be someone who's on all the time, or is always trying to make other people laugh.

Steve Carell

#43. Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person.

El-P

#44. When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

Florence Welch

#45. None of them even know who they are. They're just acting out their roles. Being what their parents made them. Always trying to be what's expected. It's exhausting.

Marie Sexton

#46. Men are always trying to make the world better or worse while most women are content just to live in it.

Howard W. Koch

#47. I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

James Rosenquist

#48. As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing
less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.

Colin Hay

#49. You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.

Hamilton Leithauser

#50. There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

Mike Krzyzewski

#51. For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.'

Alex Ebert

#52. By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

Georges Bataille

#53. Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

Robert Anthony

#54. No special suits for game days. I like to keep all my favorites in the mix. I'm always trying to look my best, even when I'm just visiting a city for eight hours and then getting back on a plane again.

Henrik Lundqvist

#55. I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

Michael Pitt

#56. My hair dries straight naturally, so I'm always trying to find anything to give it volume or give it a little bit of bounce.

Laura Enever

#57. Blake: Why are you always trying to ruin my relationships?
Ayden: What relationships?
Blake: Jen and I have been going steady for at least ten minutes now.
Jen: *Snorts*
Ayden: And we've gone from creepy to delusional.
Matthais: *Drags Blake way.*

A&E Kirk

#58. I don't do a lot of dating. I guess it's kind of like everyone is always trying to set me up with somebody, so we go out and hang out at a club or somewhere. I think dates are weird.

Matt Cohen

#59. I think whenever you have a product you are always trying to improve it. Whether it is a commercial project out on the market or it's a creative collaboration, you are always looking to keep you audiences more engaged.

Brenda Strong

#60. You don't come to work going, 'Oh my God, I've got all this money I have to worry about'. You come to work going, 'I need more time and more money'. Because whatever resources you're given, you're always trying to push the envelope.

Jonathan Mostow

#61. Life is good and is always trying to do us a good turn if we will only allow it to do so.

Henry Thomas Hamblin

#62. It's like trying to herd a flock of geese," said Orik. "They're always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they'll bite your hand first chance they get.

Christopher Paolini

#63. We were a very funny family. Humour was the tool with which my brother and I tried to get attention. We were always trying to be the funniest.

Meg Cabot

#64. It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

Lyndon B. Johnson

#65. The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

Carl Andre

#66. When I'm writing a score, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve on it, even when I think it's working well. I don't give up on things, and am always trying to make incremental improvements, which means I never finish writing a score early!

Geoff Zanelli

#67. He told me that he always insisted on two things above all else in his players: That they were always trying to improve and always willing to put the team above themselves. If they weren't willing to do those things, he didn't want them at UCLA.

John Wooden

#68. Because I was a champion swimmer in Canada, they're always trying to get me in the water in movies! I've drawn the line now with this film. No more water!

Estella Warren

#69. I remember the guest stars who came, they were always trying to find a new plot for their characters because they wanted to stay. It was really a great working environment.

Caroline Dhavernas

#70. Defensive backs are always trying to kill me, so I'm trying to get them first.

Hines Ward

#71. I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

Jennifer Damiano

#72. I'm always trying to bring as many poetic properties as possible to the essay without making it too overburdened.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#73. You women, always trying to rush straight to sex. Whatever happened to romance?

Eve Dangerfield

#74. Naive people always trying to blame others for their constant heartbreak & failed relationships instead of looking in the mirror & re-evaluating themselves. It's YOU that needs to change.

David Reeves

#75. I was always trying to do things to make school fun.

Julie Brown

#76. I am always exhausted; I am always trying to find more time to be with my family, which is why they travel with me so much.

John Tesh

#77. But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.

Bootsy Collins

#78. Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself.

Anais Nin

#79. Your life isn't about doing one perfect 'thing' and then falling down dead. It's more like going to church or writing a book. You do it over and over, always trying to be a little bit better. Then you die.

Chuck Palahniuk

#80. There can never be intimacy if [someone] is always trying to pay God back or work hard enough to be worthy.

Francis Chan

#81. I think this is something that is naturally built in in people, a need for attention and a need to be special and we are always trying to find a balance.

Celeste Ng

#82. In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

John Ruskin

#83. People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes we're left unfinished. Sometimes that's for the best. Some pieces can't be forced into a puzzle, or at least they shouldn't be, because they won't make sense.

Adam Silvera

#84. I'm a traditional country singer and we're always trying to make that a fresh and modern sound. That's always going to be the challenge with me.

Joe Nichols

#85. I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple.

Yoko Ono

#86. 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

#87. I never wanted to live a relatable life, I wanted to live an aspirational life. I didn't want to see people who had my life on TV. I wanted to see other lives, right, and so I was always trying to get as much of that stuff as I could.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#88. He wasn't always trying to say witty things, and when he did say them, he felt no need to repeat them for changing company.

Richard Russo

#89. Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.

Brenda Laurel

#90. Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

Herbert Spencer

#91. There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

Colum McCann

#92. I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.

Jim Carrey

#93. I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

Gregg Sulkin

#94. I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.

Nina Menkes

#95. I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

Vivienne Westwood

#96. I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

Wyclef Jean

#97. I almost always have a strong passion about the things I do. I wouldn't say aggressive, but I am always trying very hard to make sure that things will succeed.

Pansy Ho

#98. The Truth is always trying to reveal itslef to us in our physical world.

Matthew A. Petti

#99. I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

#100. Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.

Dolly Parton