Top 100 Quotes About Trying Hard
#2. The Father does not welcome you because you have been trying hard, because you have made a thoroughgoing confession or because you have been making spiritual strides recently. He does not welcome you because you have something you can be proud about. He welcomes you because his Son died for you.
John White
#3. I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether it's old cars or taxidermy or knitting.
Clare Balding
#4. This next house is a classic. It was built in 1908." Ms. Knight was a realtor trying hard to sell us a house, and my parents thought that the one she just showed us had stunk. My mom made a note on her clipboard
Carrie Cross
#6. If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough - they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things.
Donald A. Norman
#7. If you're not being rejected regularly - maybe you're not trying hard enough.
Kathy Ireland
#8. He emphasized murderous as if clarifying that he'd certainly believed me capable of making enemies, just not to that degree. I could have taken offense at that, but in Gabriel's world, if you aren't making the occasional enemy, you aren't trying hard enough.
Kelley Armstrong
#9. He was trying hard to continue to exist as himself despite the unlikeliness of everything.
Philip Roth
#10. You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.
Chad Harbach
#11. Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.
Wess Roberts
#12. The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team.
David Leslie
#13. I'm glad nothing requires my intervention, because I'm trying hard to maintain my composure. This is the first time I've ever seen a woman naked and I don't think I'll ever be the same.
Sara Gruen
#14. If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.
Evan Davis
#15. Anyone who never met a man he didn't like just isn't trying hard enough.
Michael Zadoorian
#16. The injuries we do in kind are visited upon us often. In the science of the mind, trying hard to move a shadow.
Lou Reed
#17. If you never make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
If you make the same mistakes more than once, you're not paying attention.
Ben Delaney
#18. I was fourteen, doing my best and trying hard to become fifteen.
Cameron Jace
#20. I wasn't a hypocrite - well, everyone is a hypocrite, but I was trying hard to be less of one.
Penny Reid
#21. You know, my goal is not to convince you that I'm right or that you're wrong. About homophobia. Gun violence. Racism. Whatever the issue. I'm really trying hard with you - and others - to have a respectful discussion, debate about these issues.
Steven Petrow
#22. It's not just how hard you try, it's how well you will succeed from trying hard.
Miles Thompson
#23. If you're failing you're not trying hard enough, if you're not failing you're not trying hard enough - J. Wedge
Jonathan Wedge
#24. I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
David Copperfield
#25. Clare concentrated on the words trying hard to press them into her memory and wishing they were solid objects that she could keep and carry around with her.
Marisa De Los Santos
#26. I would like to thank all the people who've said such nice things about it. Team Batman is giving it our collective all for you. We're trying hard to not let you down.
Greg Capullo
#27. Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.
Hanya Yanagihara
#28. A proper lady should be able to smile pretty, wear sequins like she means it, and kick a man's ass nine ways from Sunday while wearing stiletto heels. If she can't do that much, she's not trying hard enough.
Seanan McGuire
#29. I'm sorry. I didn't know what else to do," I breathed, trying hard to pretend I wasn't fazed by what just happened. "You weren't listening to me."
He stared at me with intensity for several seconds. "That's an interesting way to get my attention.
Alicia Kobishop
#30. He held his ground like a sweet gum stump trying hard to live in a spirit of love and action, not anger and reaction
Timothy B. Tyson
#31. A man in a suit looking put together and dapper is very attractive, but I also kind of like the I-just-rolled-out-of-bed, a-little-bit-of-scruff, effortless, not-trying-hard-but-still-sexy guy. If a guy spends more time looking in the mirror than I do, that's problem!
Nina Dobrev
#32. I tell my colleagues that it is actually all right to make mistakes, and I am worried when they do not make them, because it means that they either hide them from me or are not trying hard enough.
Maelle Gavet
#33. I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast
I am alone in the night
Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I
I've got a war in my mind
So, I just ride
Lana Del Rey
#35. Oh, adjust yourself. You people have spent ten millennia playing at soldiers while becoming ever more dedicated civilians. We've spent the last thousand years trying hard to stay civilian while refining the legacy of a won galactic war.
Iain M. Banks
#36. I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
Maia Mitchell
#37. 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
#38. The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you're trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.
Eckhart Tolle
#39. It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.
Elizabeth Olsen
#40. We didn't know what made "great TV." We were just trying to make a living and trying hard to honor the craft we had both fallen in love with over the years.
Joanna Gaines
#41. A beat as Queenie drinks the whole story out of Newt's head. She looks both intrigued and saddened. Newt continues to work, trying hard to pretend Queenie isn't reading his mind.
J.K. Rowling
#42. Call the fire department," I said, trying hard to stay calm.
"On it." Bess said, digging into her pocket. "I'll text 911."
"Don't text, call!" I said, feeling my heart pounding in the chest.
Carolyn Keene
#43. If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.
Maxwell Perkins
#44. Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you.
Charles M. Blow
#45. Whatever it is that you want to do, do it today because you can handle the pain of trying hard now but you won't be able to handle the pain of regret later.
Dhaval Gajera
#46. The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.
Henry L. Stimson
#47. Keep trying hard because there is always a next time.
Anamika Mishra
#48. Sometimes our cruelest acts come not from meaning to do wrong but from not trying hard enough not to.
Richard Paul Evans
#49. How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?
Robert A. Heinlein
#50. Besides," Shea continued, ignoring his words and trying hard not to feel what he was making her feel, "you don't want me either. Not really. You're just intrigued because I'm the only set of ovaries in town that doesn't flutter my eyelashes at you and giggle incessantly." ~ Shea
Sibylla Matilde
#51. True love, the good, the beautiful, one-and-only kind, the kind between loving friends and family and partners who are mostly just trying hard to do their best, it managers to overlook some pieces of its story.
Deb Caletti
#52. You're enjoying this,' said Amy. 'My whole world has been taken over by a mysterious voice. All the people are extinct. Rory's gone. And you're enjoying this.'
'No, I'm not,' said the Doctor, trying hard not to show how much he was enjoying it.
Neil Gaiman
#53. Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to behave sanely. When some people gave up the labor of sanity, or failed at it, Garp suspected them of not trying hard enough.
John Irving
#54. If I don't have at least 4 or 5 failures a month, I feel like I'm not trying hard enough
Ramit Sethi
#57. The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.
Pete Rose
#58. If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.
Margaret Heffernan
#59. The cold November sun sent weak rays onto the floor of the old house. The floor beneath snickered, trying hard to hold back snaps of bawdy laughter. The temperature dropped with ease.
J. Thorn
#60. There are a lot of people who are trying hard to sell themselves as Russian vodkas.
Roustam Tariko
#61. What we think is more important in life, is just an excuse for not trying hard enough for what is right in front of us ...
Donna M. Zadunajsky
#62. No one seems to be trying hard enough to do anything... What if we made them all chronically dissatisfied?
Stefan Merrill Block
#63. I'm trying hard to be strong and put the pieces back together, but Ryan didn't leave me with pieces - he left me with ashes.
E.K. Blair
#64. The right moral compass is trying hard to think about what customers want.
Sundar Pichai
#65. I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
Olivia Wilde
#66. A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#67. It's really easy to insist that people read the manual. It's really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it, or for not caring enough to pay attention.
Seth Godin
#68. He stopped trying hard when she praised him, she had noticed. Puritans understand the value of delayed gratification.
Lauren Groff
#69. If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
Vince Lombardi
#70. The problem with trying hard not to think about something was that you thought about it even more.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#72. There was something about being a child of divorce ... I'd always felt somehow responsible for everyone's mood. If I was cute and cheerful enough, I believed, everyone would be happy. If they weren't, clearly I wasn't trying hard enough.
Kristan Higgins
#73. Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
Jasper Fforde
#74. Cricket's voice broke through Thomas's memory. He was reading a letter, most likely from his mother. He was trying hard to hide it, but he was tearing up.
"Captain I don't want to be here," was all he could choke out. Thomas reached over and gave Cricket's shoulder a tight squeeze.
Jessica Fortunato
#75. Have you failed today? If not, you might not be trying hard enough. Failure is a part of growth, a stepping stone towards success. In its own right it is a small victory and should be celebrated as such. So I ask you again, have you failed today?
Shane E. Bryan
#76. It's impossible to be a good Christian. If you think it's easy to be a good Christian, then you're not really trying hard enough.
John Tesh
#77. point is, he wants to hurt you, doc, and he's already trying hard. one way or another he's going to screw you, if he can."
"he can wait in line with all the other people who want to.
Patricia Cornwell
#78. I'm trying hard not to use a specific reference, but you'll probably know it's you after the first sentence.
Donald Glover
#79. If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.
Sallie Krawcheck
#80. If you're not falling, you're not really trying hard enough. JOE QUESADA Joe Quesada is an award-winning comics creator and the chief creative officer of Marvel Entertainment, who served as editor-in chief of Marvel for over a decade.
Brian Michael Bendis
#81. If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.
Gordon Moore
#83. If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough
Mario Andretti
#84. Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
Harper Lee
#85. I used to get really ticked about preachers who talked too much about grace, because they tempted me to not be disciplined. I figured what people needed was a kick in the butt, and if I failed at godliness it was because those around me weren't trying hard enough.
Donald Miller
#86. Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.
Al Capone
#87. Concentration comes not from trying hard to focus on something, but from keeping your mind open and directing it at nothing.
Shunryu Suzuki
#88. Angel blinked hard and bit her lip, trying to stop the quivering of her chin. "I feel like I've waited my whole life for him, waited to get to this point where I could appreciate and value him most.
Linda Winfree
#89. I worked hard at that through most of the '80s, and in 1990 my house burned in New Hampshire, and my studios and my offices. I had to decide at what level to rebuild, and I decided that I was going to stop trying to be all things to all people, and just go back to playing the guitar.
Tom Rush
#90. I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.
Faith Ringgold
#91. I just try to go out and play as hard as I can and let the results take care of themselves.
Buster Posey
#92. If I'm on the court, I have to do what I do best and that's try to go hard to the basket.
Manu Ginobili
#93. Trying to get something for nothing?' - even mother nature abhors it.
Ufuoma Apoki
#94. It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
Magic Johnson
#95. I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!
Rosie O'Donnell
#96. Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.
Doug Liman
#97. If you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done, but keep trying.
Beyonce Knowles
#98. But then I think, this happens sometimes, doesn't it? People you have a history with, they won't let you go, and as hard as you might try, you can't disentangle yourself, can't set yourself free. Maybe after a while you just stop trying.
Paula Hawkins
#99. It is hard to open yourself to someone who might really love you. I kept trying to drive Ken away and he kept passing the test by staying.
Erica Jong
#100. I Have Learned Why People Work So Hard To Succeed: It Is Because They Envy The Things Their Neighbors Have. But It Is Useless. It Is Like Chasing The Wind ... It Is Better To Have Only A Little, With Peace Of Mind, Than Be Busy All The Time With Both Hands, Trying To Catch The Wind
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