Top 100 Quotes About No Matter How Hard You Try
#1. No matter how hard you try to put everything neatly into shape, the context wanders this way and that, until finally the context isn't even there anymore. You're left with this pile of kittens lolling all over one another.
Haruki Murakami
#2. Well, we learned a vital lesson here today, me mateys. You canna keelhaul a demon no matter how hard you try for it. The rotten crafty beastie bastard won't be having none of it.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#3. No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to carry the world. So you need to get it off your shoulders before you break your back. (From Night Marchers book 2 coming soon.)
Rebecca Gober
#4. You know," he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave.
Neal Shusterman
#5. Each day is unexpected. No matter how hard you try, you can never prepare for the life ahead.
E.L. Montes
#6. The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. ( ... ) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard.
Niall Williams
#7. You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try
Sarah Dessen
#8. The world is full of holes and uneven seams, wrinkled places that you can't make smooth, no matter how hard you try.
Paula Stokes
#9. She finally understood that, no matter how hard you try, you can't make someone love you. You can't stop them from making the wrong decision. There's no magic for that.
Sarah Addison Allen
#10. But sometimes one person can hold you up in life, keep you standing, and without that hand to hold, you can find yourself free-falling no matter how strong you used to be, no matter how hard you try to remain steady.
Kristin Hannah
#11. Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.
Bipasha Basu
#12. There are some things you can't unsee, and there are some movies you can't get off IMDB no matter how hard you try.
Kurt Fuller
#13. Love does not solely belong to one person. No matter how hard you try, if the feeling is not mutual, it'll be fruitless.
Jin Sun Mi
#14. Some secrets can't be kept too long. No matter how hard you try to hide them, sooner or later they scurry out from your cupboards, cockroaches on the run.
Ellen Hopkins
#15. No matter how hard you try, there are some things that we can't force it to happen. It happens when it happens. And that's how it happened.
Ariff Adly
#16. I meant does it hurt when you hide every last shred of your individuality and self worth behind acres of silk and cups of powder and smiles that never, no matter how hard you try, reach your eyes?
Melissa De La Cruz
#17. A tire spins aimlessly, being pulled a different direction by forces larger and stronger and with little consideration of its wasted effort. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't leave the road you're on.
Kimberly Morgan
#18. Yeah, but some things you can't control, no matter how hard you try.
Gayle Forman
#19. No matter how hard you try, it's just never good enough for those that want to see you fall.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#20. No matter how hard you try, after the Day there will always be a Night ...
Luis Marques
#21. Like when you scrape your knee and you get a scar, but then the
scar fades so much that no one can see it but you. But you know where it is. Cuz you remember what caused it. And
no matter how hard you try, you can never forget how bad it hurt when it first happened.
Alyson Noel
#22. And even if you hate her, can't stand her, even if she's ruining your life, there's something about her, some romance, some power. She's absolutely herself. No matter how hard you try, you'll never get to her. And when she dies, the world will be flat, too simple, reasonable, fair.
Mona Simpson
#23. No matter how hard you try
it is impossible to be grateful
and depressed.
Robert Holden
#24. Whatever you do, whatever you redo, it all ends up here. Some things are just unavoidable. No matter how hard you try, the things meant to go to shit still go to shit. Terrible things happen, Micah, and you can't stop them. You just can't."
So you just do more terrible things.
Amy Zhang
#25. I know one day I'll be irrelevant. No matter how hard you try there is a cultural moment, but eventually that window's gone, your time on Earth is finished, and you might as well leave. I could absolutely die tomorrow - I would not care. I feel like I've lived, I feel like I've had a great life.
Tom Ford
#26. My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.
Nicholas Sparks
#27. There's something about those secrets that only the deceased person can rightly understand. Something that can't be explained, no matter how hard you try. They're what the dead person has to take with him to his grave. Like a valuable piece of luggage.
Haruki Murakami
#28. I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then, when I was diagnosed with Parkinson's, I was finally given the reason. I now understand that no one can sing with Parkinson's disease. No matter how hard you try. And in my case, I can't sing a note.
Linda Ronstadt
#30. I shook Alan's hand and the feeling just grew stronger. It was a bit frustrating. Like when you're looking for what to say and it's on the tip of your tongue, but no matter how hard you try, it just keeps eluding you.
Pamela Alvarado
#31. Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
Tom Peters
#32. It's a funny thing about love. You can't make it right when it's wrong and you can't make it wrong when it's right, no matter how hard you try.
Arlene James
#33. I guess no matter how hard you try, you can't escape your past.
Joel Osteen
#34. One last song. One last turn. One last street. No matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, it's going to leave you -Rhiannon
David Levithan
#35. The greatest wonder is never being able to know what will happen next. No matter how hard you try, the future will always be ahead of you.
Debbie Shapiro
#36. [She] was juggling a lot of crap. And sh it is incredibly difficult to juggle. No matter how hard you try, it still falls apart and slips through your fingers, and even when you're managing to keep it aloft, it still stinks.
Amy Harmon
#37. no matter how hard you try. They have to want it as bad as you do or there is no hope.
Anna Todd
#38. I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.
Ethel Waters
#39. It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.
Douglas Coupland
#40. Your love life should bring you love. If it doesn't, no matter how hard you try, if you are honest and fair and good, and you decide it's over and you need to go find love somewhere else, then...what more can the world ask of you?
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#41. She began to realize some decisions cannot be undone no matter how hard you try.
Travis Luedke
#42. And things change, she remembered, no matter how hard you try to hold them in place.
J.D. Robb
#43. You can't turn love on and off like a light switch, no matter how hard you try. All you can do is wall it off, one brick at a time, until you've created an impenetrable fortress around your emotions. And once that fortress is built, you camouflage it so well that even you can't see it anymore.
Katherine Allred
#44. But there are some kinds of love that you can't lose, no matter how hard you try. So there's no need for him to be afraid.
Chelsea Fine
#45. No matter how hard you try to move on, sometimes forces beyond your control won't let you.
Alison G. Bailey
#46. People under time pressure don't think faster." - Tim Lister Think rate is fixed. No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you can't pick up the pace of thinking.
Tom DeMarco
#48. It takes over - fear, I mean. No matter how hard you try to fight it, it takes over, crushing the life out of you.
Nicholas Sparks
#49. Red blood is just so hard to clean up"
"You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands
Victoria Aveyard
#50. Feelings are murky, contrived and confusing. And the worst thing about them is no matter how hard you try, you can never sort them. They tangle more and more with thinking.
Saru Singhal
#51. You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health.
Melanie Iglesias
#52. No matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, you're screwed because it's all fixed and rigged. There is a club and you ain't in it.
George Carlin
#53. When you first take someone's life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human
being you used to be. You're never the same after that - it changes you forever and not in a good way
- and no matter how hard you try, you can't go back to the innocence you had. Ever.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#54. Like life, basketball is messy and unpredictable. It has its way with you, no matter how hard you try to control it. The trick is to experience each moment with a clear mind and open heart. When you do that, the game - and life - will take care of itself.
Phil Jackson
#55. My daddy used to tell me 'the first time you fall in love it changes your life forever, and no matter how hard you try, the feelin' never goes away. This girl you been tellin' me about was your first love. And no matter what you do, she'll stay with you forever.
Nicholas Sparks
#56. I opened my mouth to reply, but then closed it again. Talking to Mom was a bit like trying to fold a fitted sheet: no matter how hard you try, it always ends up a lumpy, crooked mess. So why even bother? (Page 120)
Marci Lyn Curtis
#57. It's said that you can never go home again, and it's true enough, of course. But the opposite is also true. You must go back, and you always go back, and you can never stop going back, no matter how hard you try.
Gregory David Roberts
#58. It's more like how some people can't help but bring out the not necessarily righteous parts of your personality. Like how you meet someone and instantly know they're a full-time professional victim, and no matter how hard you try, something takes over and you can't help needling them.
Richard Kadrey
#59. Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that's always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone,
Fredrik Backman
#60. Love always finds you, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. It knows your hiding places. It's smarter than you'll ever be.
Katie Kacvinsky
#61. Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
Bear Grylls
#62. If you can't quit no matter how hard you try, then you have a chance to succeed.
Laura Fitton
#63. Some things in life become ingrained in your psyche. You can't shake them no matter how hard you try. They're tattooed inside your skull, lying dormant, til the moment you need to draw from them, to survive."
--Mike Wech, SEVEN-X
Mike Wech
#64. If you're honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them.
Joe Clifford Faust
#65. Here's a word. Bereavement. Or, Bereaved. Bereft. It's from the Old English bereafian, meaning 'to deprive of, take away, seize, rob'. Robbed. Seized. It happens to everyone. But you feel it alone. Shocking loss isn't to be shared, no matter how hard you try.
Helen Macdonald
#66. But you can't kill me, Lord Tyrant. I represent that one thing you've never been able to kill, no matter how hard you try. I am hope.
Brandon Sanderson
#67. A mind filled with negative thoughts makes you feel miserable and inadequate and will lead to failure after failure no matter how hard you try to succeed.
Steve Backley
#68. No matter how hard you try ... you just can't buy other people their happiness. It must be installed inside them first!
Timothy Pina
#69. No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now.
Ray Bradbury
#70. No matter how hard you try to create a story that's completely fictional, parts of your own experience are bound to surface.
Hiroshi Ishizaki
#71. There's always this one girl. She's desperate and she's weird and she's jealous, and you're stuck with her, no matter how hard you try to get her off your back. Just throw some really fucked-up self-esteem issues into the mix and you have Kara.
Courtney Summers
#72. That's the thing about angry words - once you spill them out, they are like a broken jar of honey on the floor, all sticky and mess. And no matter how hard you try to clean it up, you can always feel that sticky part of the tile" -Cordie
Shelley Moore Thomas
#73. Everything had to be in order for you, everything had to make sense. I hope you've learned that some things don't make sense, no matter how hard you try to make sense of them.
Angela Benson
#74. You can never control a wild heart no matter how hard you try.
Christian Coma
#75. Some things the gut distills to their essence no matter how hard you try to factor in compassion and mercy and understanding. One of them killed the other. And there is violence in my heart.
Karen Marie Moning
#76. No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
Brian Greene
#77. Ladies, no matter how hard you try, a man will never complete you. Only God can. And if you don't know your identity in Him, you'll be lost forever.
Deborah N. Kabwang
#78. Folks will take hold of whatever story suits em best and nothing you can do. Don't matter if it is your story, once they start in on it, you can't never get it out of their mouth. No matter how hard you try. All you can do is find a way to hang on to knowing you know better.
Margaret Wrinkle
#79. The basis of the Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do.
Ruth Swain in History of the Rain
Niall Williams
#80. It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what's going to come in. But when it does, you just have to go for it! Because if you don't, there's not point in being here.
Kirstie Alley
#81. I think you've got no choice but to suffer more. It was your job to save people's lives. You weren't allowed to make mistakes. But nobody's perfect, and we all make mistakes at some point in our lives, no matter how hard we try. But every time we do make a mistake, we have to learn from it.
Minari Endou
#82. Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out,
and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened,
can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
Alice Hoffman
#83. We all have flaws, no matter how hard we try to tame sometimes still eludes us. If you give me your flaw, I'll handle it flawlessly, and I mine, you'd do the same. That's when two is better than one, else, we'll have two aggravated untamed flaws.
Ufuoma Apoki
#84. And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can't stop
yourself from dreaming.
Jenny Han
#85. Never," said Gregor. "I'll never get rid of you, no matter how hard I try." It was no longer an effort to say the words. "I love you."
"I love you, too," said Luxa.
After that there was nothing left to say.
Suzanne Collins
#86. There's really nowhere else I can go, and even if there were, it wouldn't make a difference
because I'd just be running from myself, and you can't do that no matter how hard you
try, and trying hard is what got you in this predicament in the first place.
Pete Wentz
#87. And I am an optimistic person. I guess if you want to try to find something to be pessimistic about, you can find it, no matter how hard you look, you know?
George W. Bush
#88. SNEAK AROUND IN LIFE
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TIP TOE
THE SPIRITUAL WOOD FLOORS CREAK
LOUDER AND LOUDER NO MATTER HOW HARD
YOU TRY SNEAK IN SILENCE.
THAT'S WHEN YOU REALIZE ...
"SNEAKING IS NOISY"
AND S.I.N IS LOUD!!!!
Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
#89. And if there is one last thing I would have you know before we reach these final pages, it's that sometimes, no matter how hard we try, no matter how hard we want it to be so, sometimes there is no such a thing as happy ending.
This is my ending. This is how i burn.
T.J. Klune
#90. It was the kind of crying that comes from the pit of the stomach and brings a headache with it. The kind that makes a person snort and gasp, and no matter how idiotic you feel or how hard you try, you can't stop.
Robin Jones Gunn
#91. No matter how hard people try break you down, or whoever tries to stomp on you. You will always have the same value. No one can change you.
Rain
#92. No matter how hard or even impossible you may think it is, you always have the choice to hit back and try your best.
Anonymous
#93. No matter how hard I try to forget you, you always come back to my thoughts
When you hear me singing I am really crying for you.
Jane Bierhorst
#94. In the last few days, you've made me feel ... alive. You make me feel beautiful and intelligent and wanted, and no matter how hard I try, I'll never be able to tell you how much that's meant to me.
Nicholas Sparks
#95. You make the puzzle work. Without you, we're just a bunch of pieces that look like we belong together, but no matter how hard we try to hold on to each other, we fall apart. You're the glue. You're the fifth piece that makes everything fit just right.
Catherine Gayle
#96. This is because the Greeks had it backward, and no matter how hard humans try thinking otherwise, they still think like Greeks. For the Greeks, when you looked ahead all you saw was the past. It was like the past was the future.
Kathryn Davis
#97. No matter what, no matter how hard we try ... why do I feel like I'm going to lose you?
Brittainy C. Cherry
#98. If first of all you have a wrong idea, then it's kind of wasting time. No matter how hard that you try with a wrong idea, it makes it difficult to be successful.
Stephen Chow
#99. So I did something I've never done, and put your live above my own, because no matter how hard I try to convey it, I'm not heartless. I have a heart and... and it beats for you.
Emma Winters
#100. I don't believe a thing about a curse. I don't understand how we can talk about a curse. You have to remember, God is blessed and man can't curse, no matter how hard they try.
Ray Lewis
