Quotes About Life Trying

#1. I spent twenty years of my life trying to recruit people out of local churches and into missions structures so that they could be involved in fulfilling God's global mission. Now I have another idea. Let's take God's global mission and put it right in the middle of the local church!

George H. Miley

#2. The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.

Oswald Chambers

#3. It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

#4. If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.

Roger Ballen

#5. I spent my whole teenage life trying to get to London and go to dance school, but when I got there, I couldn't wait to get to the clubs on weekends. I knew I wanted to make music.

FKA Twigs

#6. I've lived most of my life trying to please others. I don't think I can do that anymore.

Debbie Macomber

#7. I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.

Julius Erving

#8. At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

Stephen Daldry

#9. She had lived her life trying to look straight at things, straight at them knowing that there would come a day when she would look at something so hard that it would look right back and break her. Well, wasn't she made of flesh and bone? Wasn't she made to break? Sure. Wasn't she a woman?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#10. You came out kicking and screaming, reluctant as hell to leave, and you spent the rest of your life trying to get back in.

Donald O'Donovan

#11. I can't spend my life trying to please other people.

Paulo Coelho

#12. She couldn't change who she was, and she no longer wanted to, even if she could. She knew that who you are is a stone set deep inside you. You can spend all your life trying to dig that stone out, or you can build around it. Your choice.

Sarah Addison Allen

#13. Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

Tim Burton

#14. Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

Joan Z. Borysenko

#15. The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

Winston S. Churchill

#16. I don't want to spend this last half [of life] trying to recapture the first. I want to stretch and grow and do bold things ... and question what I've been taught and generally alarm people with my broadmindedness.

Philip Gulley

#17. We tend to run our whole life trying to avoid all that hurts or displeases us, noticing the objects, people, or situations that we think will give us pain or pleasure, avoiding one and pursuing the other.

Charlotte Joko Beck

#18. Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never going to give?

Candace Bushnell

#19. A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

Abraham Polonsky

#20. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in every crisis he has got to do what the 'natives' expect of him ... A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things.

George Orwell

#21. Iko was forced to bite her tongue, allowing her programmed instincts, the instincts she'd spent her life trying to keep buried while she learned about humor and sarcasm and affection, to keep her expressionless.

Marissa Meyer

#22. There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling to part of life that have died for us.

Joan D. Chittister

#23. There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it's so important. I've wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful.

Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

#24. People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for.

Dash Mihok

#25. They wanted a list of symptoms: dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations. You could not say, it is a different life trying to nudge this one aside. I am meant to be living that different life. Who would understand that, if she could make no better sense of understanding it herself?

Jean Thompson

#26. Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.

Brandon Mull

#27. It was the moment I learned acting is not acting out. After that light went on, I spent the rest of my life trying to figure out how to make other people realize it.

William Hurt

#28. Man lives his whole life trying to figure out the secrets of life only to realize in the end life was the secret.

Terry Blakeman

#29. Don't marry a rich man. Marry a good man. He will spend his life trying to keep you happy. No rich man can buy that!

Staness Jonekos

#30. I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

Elisabeth Shue

#31. Why spend your life trying to fit in, when you are born to stand out?

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#32. Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

Trent Reznor

#33. I'm one of those people you can tell 'no' a million different ways, and I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure out some way to get you to say 'yes.' People have always underestimated me. I have great stamina, great tenacity.

Morgan Fairchild

#34. To live the first five years of your life feeling that you are valuable is a wonderful thing and, if you don't have it, then you spend the rest of your life trying to find it. I think my mother realised this and tried to compensate for my father's extreme preoccupation with himself.

Rick Stein

#35. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

Tim Tebow

#36. I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Orson Welles

#37. I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.

David Gilmour

#38. I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.

Alan Bates

#39. He'd told her they would fight their way out. Knives drawn, pistols blazing. Because that's what we do. She would fight for him, but she could not heal him. She would not waste her life trying.

Leigh Bardugo

#40. Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same.

Grant Cardone

#41. I've spent my whole life trying to get over having had Nikki for a mother, and I have to say that from day one after she died, I liked having a dead mother much more than having an impossible one. [p. 47]

Anne Lamott

#42. That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.

Chad Pennington

#43. I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

Celia Imrie

#44. We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

Albert Einstein

#45. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.

Francois Cavanna

#46. There is no one on Earth quite like you. No one can compare to you. Three questions: Do you realize how special you are? Do you believe how special you are? Do you demonstrate to the world how special you are? Don't live your life trying to live someone else's life. Be you!

Clifton Anderson

#47. Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says.

Lady Gaga

#48. Behind every problem, there is a question trying to ask itself ... Behind every question there is an answer trying to reveal itself. Behind every answer there is an action trying to take place. And behind every action there is a way of life trying to be born.

Michael Beckwith

#49. If you spend your entire life trying to cheat death, there's no time left over to embrace life.

Steven Rowley

#50. Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.

Chris Martin

#51. Acting is great. You spend your whole life trying to get it right.

Stuart Townsend

#52. My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

Derrick Bell

#53. Now she had tasted love she felt that to lose it would mean that she would spend the rest of her life trying to capture just a tiny bit of what she had right here and now." p70

Claire Upton

#54. There's nothing a woman hates more than her fiance's best friend. He knows all the secrets she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to find out.

Jeff Douglas

#55. I'm like a man who's been half-asleep all his life, trying to find out what he was like before he woke up.

Daniel Keyes

#56. I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right, say it eloquently, say it truthfully, say it honestly, that when I hear it said in ways that none of those adverbs would describe I find myself so repelled that it almost shuts my mind off.

Frederick Buechner

#57. Love was a hundred times worse than all the stupid songs could ever try to explain. And when he loved you back, it was too much. Like all of those feelings could never fit. You'd have to spend your life trying to figure out how, but it wouldn't matter as long as he kept looking at you like that.

K.A. Mitchell

#58. You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

Lauren Bacall

#59. Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.

Italo Calvino

#60. Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Chuck Palahniuk

#61. You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.

Blake Lively

#62. When a gently born spinster has little money, her choices are few. She might receive an offer of marriage, but it's unlikely to be from a wealthy man, so she'll have a hard life trying to make ends meet for her growing family.

Jo Beverley

#63. Samuel Gompers has spent his life trying to keep labor from working too hard and has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.

Will Rogers

#64. You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go.

Maria Shriver

#65. It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

A.J. Ayer

#66. I'll never be able to give you everything you deserve, but I'll definitely spend the rest of my life trying.

Colleen Hoover

#67. What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

Muhammad Yunus

#68. What an absurd amount of energy I have been wasting all my life trying to find out how things 'really are', when all the time they weren't.

Hugh Prather

#69. For the first time I realize how perilous peace can be. I appreciate the tightrope that my grandfather has spent his whole life trying to walk. And now, more than ever, I grow terrified that I'm going to make us all fall down.

Ally Carter

#70. I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

Campbell Scott

#71. Hayden embodied everything I wasn't but wanted to be. I spent my entire life trying to color inside the lines, only to wind up restrained by them.

Helena Hunting

#72. Even though I have spent literally years of my life trying to learn another language, any other language - and even though I have in the past claimed in several key professional contexts that I speak other languages - I am in fact still trapped inside the bubble of English.

Lev Grossman

#73. I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.

China Forbes

#74. I've spent most of my life trying to make it to a future that still hasn't happened, or avoid a past that won't let me go. I don't remember when I've ever just stopped to live in the present, to hold on to the seconds I'm in. ~ Emma

Rebecca Donovan

#75. It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

Adam Rapp

#76. I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

Pat Benatar

#77. It's been one of the most painful things I've ever been through in my whole life: trying to understand the degree to which behaviors that I thought were totally appropriate were destructive.

Newt Gingrich

#78. I will spend the rest of my life trying to make you happy, and when you get tired of looking at me, I promise I'll sing.

Amy Harmon

#79. Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

Sandra Bullock

#80. he'd spent his whole life trying to make God love him - and that this didn't matter in the slightest. All that mattered was that he loved God. He told me that once he knew this he was home free.

Thomas Mallon

#81. What happens when we're dead? The irony is that all our questions wil be answered after we die. We spend our whole life trying to figure out the truth and the only way we'll find out what it is, is to get hit by a bus. And the only comfort that religion offers is that God is driving that bus.

John Ryman

#82. My father built a time machine and then he spent his whole life trying to figure out how to use it to get more time. He spent all the time he had with us thinking about how he wished he had more time, if he could only have more time.

Charles Yu

#83. You can waste a perfectly good life trying to meet the standards of someone who thinks you're not good enough because they can't understand who you are.

Barbara Sher

#84. A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

Tawni O'Dell

#85. One of the things you'll discover ... as you listen to your own soul is that you spend a great amount of your life trying to bring meaning to your own life. And, by the way, most people are not going to church, so the place they're actually trying to find meaning in their life is at work.

Erwin McManus

#86. I've spent my life trying to be better than I was, and I am a brother to all who share the same aspiration.

James A. Michener

#87. The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like 'The Other Boleyn Girl' and 'The Tudors,' people's perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.

Alison Weir

#88. You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.

Jane Fonda

#89. I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

Meg Rosoff

#90. You can spend your life trying to be popular, and that's a tricky business. You can just try to be true to yourself.

Kevin Costner

#91. Like so many kids, I just wanted to fit in, and I see now that I spent most of my life trying to be what I wasn't, trying to get people to like me.

Clare Balding

#92. A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

P.G. Wodehouse

#93. what I feel is that spending my life trying to earn the favor of an unseen, unknown, and unknowable being who watches me from the sky is an exercise in sheer futility.

Brandon Sanderson

#94. Don't waste your life trying to impress other people. Do what you love, love what you do.

Auliq Ice

#95. I'd never forgotten him, despite spending half my life trying to forget him. I'd given him everything: my love, my body, my pride, & parts of my heart & mind that I could never get back.

Beth Harbison

#96. I have been spending the better part of my professional life trying to create self-driving cars. At Google, I am working with a world-class team of engineers to turn science fiction into reality.

Sebastian Thrun

#97. If you keep working you'll last longer. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.

Harold Geneen

#98. I've spent my whole life trying to find out who I am, so I could express that through the music.

Neil Diamond

#99. I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

Stephanie Klein

#100. You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs.

Josh Becker