Quotes About Trying Harder

#1. But are there really good people? Good people, through and through? Or are we all just varying versions of bad people, some trying harder to be good?

Anna Banks

#2. Trying harder doesn't work for me. Slowly I've learned to pray for God's help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

Francis Chan

#3. Trying harder doesn't always equal more success; it leads to more frustration, less satisfaction, and giving up.

John Bingham

#4. The essence of loving living as a follower of Jesus isn't in trying harder but in enjoying more. I'm not saying you can change without trying. I'm saying that enjoyment empowers effort. Pleasure in God is the power for purity.

Sam Storms

#5. Failure is not an option if success is just a matter of trying harder

W. Bruce Cameron

#6. Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.

Benjamin Hoff

#7. You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

Alicia Keys

#8. No amount of determination will bring freedom. We're going to learn to be victorious by surrendering our lives completely to the Spirit of God, not by gritting our teeth and trying harder.

Beth Moore

#9. A baseball manager recognizes a nonphysical talent, hustle, as an essential gift of great players and great teams. It is the characteristic of running faster than necessary, moving sooner than necessary, trying harder than necessary. It is essential for great programming teams, too.

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#10. Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that

Jan Garavaglia

#11. Our emotions are not transformed by trying harder, but by seeing more clearly.

Mike Bickle

#12. The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

Charles Bukowski

#13. Your wishes doesn't come true, because there is someone else who is wishing harder and trying harder for the same wish.

Amit Kalantri

#14. Putting our faith in Christ is not about trying harder; it means transferring our trust away from ourselves and resting in him.

Timothy Keller

#15. Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

John Ortberg

#16. Stop performing. Start becoming. Stop trying harder. Start surrendering to the big call of God on your life. Let go of the desire to mitigate risk. Go all out.

Anonymous

#17. If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.

Lily Tomlin

#18. I was trying to remember what birds did before there were telephone wires. It would have been much harder for them to roost in the sunlight, which is a thing they clearly enjoy doing.

Marilynne Robinson

#19. When we talk now, we both know we've lost something, and I can feel us trying to fake it and make up what's missing. The faking makes me sad, and the sadness makes the faking harder to do.

Kate Le Vann

#20. Though I imagine in your case, trying not to fall just made you fall harder.

Meg Cabot

#21. 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

#22. As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.

Frank Thomas

#23. You've got to be able to take a hit and learn from it and get back up on your bike again, or get back doing whatever you do, and try even harder next time. It's all about learning from your mistakes and using it the next time so you don't put yourself in the same situation.

Magnus Backstedt

#24. The most important thing that each of us can do is to try even harder to see the world through our neighbor's eyes.

Hillary Clinton

#25. Trying to prove you're not a psychopath is even harder than trying to prove you're not mentally ill,' said Tony.

Jon Ronson

#26. The harder we try to catch hold of the moment, to seize a pleasant sensation ... , the more elusive it becomes ... It is like trying to clutch water in one's hands - the harder one grips, the faster it slips through one's fingers.

Alan Watts

#27. I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.

Beth Orton

#28. The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.

Abby Sunderland

#29. Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

Nathan Englander

#30. It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.

Allan McNish

#31. Get up every day and try a little harder than the day before.

Emeril Lagasse

#32. By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.

Mardy Grothe

#33. How hard is hitting? You ever walk into a pitch-black room full of furniture that you've never been in before and try to walk through it without bumping into anything? Well, it's harder than that.

Ted Kluszewski

#34. I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

Sarah McLachlan

#35. I'm originally from southern California, so I, like, say 'like', like, a lot. I've been trying to scrub any traces of Valley Girl from my speech since I moved to New York, but it's, like, totally way harder than anyone thinks, you know?

Mara Wilson

#36. They are trying to live, but they have no room to breathe. So they try harder and breathe less.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#37. You must train harder than the enemy who is trying to kill you. You will get all the rest you need in the grave.

Leon Degrelle

#38. I tell ya, sex is getting harder all the time. Me and my wife were trying to have sex for hours last night and I finally gave up. I asked her, "what, you can't think of anybody either?"

Rodney Dangerfield

#39. With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.

Tori Spelling

#40. Of course there's pressure, and it's still there with every book. Each one is harder to write than the last, basically because you're always trying to write a better book. You won't always succeed, of course, but that has to be what you're shooting for.

Mark Billingham

#41. Artemis felt like he was six again and caught hacking the school computers trying to make the test questions harder

Eoin Colfer

#42. I'm the company philosopher and the burr in the saddle. I'm the one who says we need to try harder, improve the quality of our products, become a part of the political process, help elect people who are good for the environment.

Yvon Chouinard

#43. I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me ... Failure always made me try harder next time.

Michael Jordan

#44. I never seemed to fit in. But it made me try to strive for things ten times harder.

Billy Corgan

#45. Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Mike McCue

#46. If you have someone equal in ability to me I will beat him every time because I will try harder.

Pete Rose

#47. It's not enough to step in front of people's bullets; you have to be bulletproof too. You have to be harder than anything anyone else can throw at you, and sometimes you risk losing yourself just trying to save yourself.

Anthony Breznican

#48. There is nothing harder than working 50 pages a day, working 16 hours a day, trying to be good with only shooting rehearsals.

Robert Kazinsky

#49. I think it's because you're frightened and you feel helpless, and even though you're trying, things continue to get harder and harder - for the both of you. And the more you try, the more hopeless things seem." "Is there any way to stop feeling this way?

Nicholas Sparks

#50. Just to prove i was right that it's harder to be friends than lovers and you shouldn't try and mix the two, cause if you do and then you're still unhappy, then you know that the problem is you.

Liz Phair

#51. I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.

Ben Horowitz

#52. Rather than pushing children to think like adults, we might do better to remember that they are great learners and to try harder to be more like them.

Seymour Papert

#53. A laugh burst from Nina's lips. Not as awkward as it must be for you. Honey, please. If you bent around any harder trying to let me know you fucked Lex to try and make me feel bad, you'd be a pretzel. Although you're about as smart as one.

Lauren Dane

#54. Try harder every day to be better than the day before.

Julia Gillard

#55. Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good ... The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.

Donald Miller

#56. I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

Paul McCartney

#57. That was it! The whole Redwood City philosophy was based on a willingness to try harder than anyone else.

Malcolm Gladwell

#58. There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does

Dean Smith

#59. But trying to be genuine was harder than it seemed

Linkin Park

#60. Honey, if you've had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do ... Try A Little Bit Harder.

Janis Joplin

#61. When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget ... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

Katherine Paterson

#62. I always want to try to bring something fresh to every book. It's getting harder instead of easier. I feel like I work harder with each book. But I don't want it to show on the pages, that's for sure.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#63. By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up,

Lori Gottlieb

#64. I always love when everybody else is really bringing their game, because it's only going to make the movie better; it just makes you work harder and they work harder and everybody is trying to get their little bit in. It's competitive in a constructive way.

Jennifer Lopez

#65. People alway ask me what advantages fame has started to bring; there are always plenty of free drinks, but other times people wanna put stuff into your drink to kill you off. Their gonna have to try a lot harder if they want to get me.

Marilyn Manson

#66. Take them off!" I told him, grabbing the front of his jeans. "Take everything off!"
"I'm trying!"
"Try harder!

Karen Chance

#67. Sometimes this was much harder than trying to get an alligator in a suitcase.

Micheal Rivers

#68. We've replaced the proclamation of Christ with an easy-listening legalism of do more and try harder.

R.C. Sproul

#69. Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

Audra McDonald

#70. I'm trying not to wet myself with excitement," I murmur back. "It's harder after having the triplets.

Kristan Higgins

#71. The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

Marion Woodman

#72. The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

Arianna Huffington

#73. Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.

Henry David Thoreau

#74. Work harder on improving yourself than on trying to forge better relationships.

Mensah Oteh

#75. My motto in life is that nothing is impossible, no target unachievable - one just has to try harder and harder.

Kiran Bedi

#76. The recognition definitely helps and goes a long way for helping me to reaffirm my decision to purse art fulltime. Getting awards and nominations encourages me to keep trying even harder.

Julie Dillon

#77. There's always gonna be be someone better looking, there's always gonna be someone smarter, there's always gonna be someone who works harder. What you have to offer is yourself, so don't lose it, focus on it and try to bring it out

Jared Padalecki

#78. The truth is that I don't work any harder than anyone else in the world. I don't work 18-hour days. I don't stay up until 4 in the morning trying to finish a line.

Adam Schlesinger

#79. You're not just trying to do something marginally, incrementally better. You're doing something that is a fundamental paradigm shift, that will have exponential impact. That means it's harder to do, but ultimately, if it's successful, the impact it has is far greater.

Steve Case

#80. Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.

Alane Adams

#81. The harder you try to control your girlfriend the further you'll drive her away, so stop acting like a dumbbell.

Jeanne Phillips

#82. No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.

Kandyse McClure

#83. Because I'm trying to notice, these days, when I'm making shit harder than it has to be. I'm trying to notice when there's something I want and I'm throwing obstacles up in front of it for no reason at all.

Robin York

#84. With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do.

Frank Caliendo

#85. Try or cry. Choose!

Heenashree Khandelwal

#86. [Life]It is what you make it. If you think you can't change the world, then go on and follow the path already carved out for you. But there are other roads to choose, they're just harder to trudge through. Changing the world is'nt easy, but I sure as hell am going to keep trying. Are you?

Simone Elkeles

#87. I used to love reading, but since I've started writing, it's harder for me to immerse, because I spend so much time looking at how the story is structured and trying to see what the author is doing behind the curtain.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#88. Rage or fear ... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

David Chang

#89. Most of what we've done at SurveyMonkey is create a market, which I would say is much harder than trying to enter a market that already exists. But if you get it right, it can become a great business.

Dave Goldberg

#90. A saint isn't somebody who tries harder, but someone who trusts more.

Peter Kreeft

#91. It's harder when people are playing along, because it's just not as funny. They're trying to be funny, and it sort of cancels out the whole joke.

Steve Carell

#92. It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

B.B. King

#93. I just want to do musicals. it's hard enough just to do musicals. No matter how hard I try, I think it's only getting harder. Even If I try harder, there are problems that I just can't deal with. I don't know why it's become like this.

Cheon Eunbi

#94. That's the thing about this game
you get a little monkey on your back. You go 0-for-3, you go 0-for-6, pretty soon you start pressing. You keep trying a little harder, and the harder you try, the worse it gets. So, anytime you can break out of it by getting a base hit, it feeds confidence.

Mike Candrea

#95. For me giving up is way harder than trying.

Kanye West

#96. Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#97. I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.

Chris Raschka

#98. The thing that was much harder than I expected was figuring out what to do with 20 tons of books. That led to a lot of trying to move freight with a pallet jack - literally trying to shove a one-ton cube of books into a tiny space.

Ian Christe

#99. Dr. Yei," Bannerji objected, "if you're trying to knock a man out you've got to hit him a lot harder than that." Yei recoiled fearfully as Van Atta surged up out of his seat. "I didn't want to risk killing him . . ." "Why not?" muttered Bannerji under his breath. Furiously,

Lois McMaster Bujold

#100. I have a name," I grumped, my stomach pinching me harder.
"Yes, but it has no pizzazz. Ra-a-a-a-chel. Rach-e-e-e-eel," he said, trying it out in different ways. "No one will tremble in terror at that. Oh my God!" he said in a high falsetto. "It's Rachel! Run! Hide!

Kim Harrison