Top 100 Try Hard Quotes
#1. Most people think that Christianity is spelled DO: they look at the Bible or the life of Christ, and they simply try hard to live like Jesus. Christianity is really spelled DONE: it is what Christ has done that enables us to live a life of obedience.30
Darrin Patrick
#2. Sukhvinder is easily discouraged and needs to have more faith in her abilities. There! You see? Your teacher is saying you dont try hard enough, Sukhvinder.
J.K. Rowling
#3. Concentration is not to try hard to watch something ... Concentration means freedom ... In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and just to sit and feel your breathing.
Shunryu Suzuki
#4. I have to try hard - but I do succeed - to not burst out laughing when he compares my breasts to a perfectly cooked creme brulee - 'souple mais ferme.
Frances Gendlin
#5. Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.
Benedict Joseph Labre
#6. We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our children. The connection is imperfect. We will sometimes do wrong.
Judith Viorst
#7. When you're rich and famous you are the dominant force in a relationship, even if you try hard not to be. I've talked of sacrificing everything for Fleetwood Mac, but I realize now that it is simply the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
Stevie Nicks
#8. I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
Jack Nicholson
#9. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than 3 or 4 times in a row.
Janet Evanovich
#10. I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way ... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#11. Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.
John Wooden
#12. We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
Mark Twain
#14. When you try hard to get something, but you gain nothing, this is what's called depression.
Al-Hanouf Halawi
#15. If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.
Don Meyer
#16. The common belief that everyone can do anything if they just try hard enough is a formula for inefficiency at best and for complete failure at worst.
W.J. King
#17. All I'm saying is that worrying about it isn't going to fix anything. The only thing we can do is keep on with our own small thing and try hard to be good and to make life better, and know that if it all ends tomorrow that we were at least happy.
Lauren Groff
#18. You are the adventurer of your life so try hard to find the diamond in your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#19. One of the ideas I've clung to most of my life is that if I just try hard enough it will work out.
Meghan O'Rourke
#21. The Palestinians try hard to forget when they should remember.
The Israelis try hard to remember when they should forget.
The Palestinians refuse to be victims.
The Israelis make sure that they remain the only victims.
Suad Amiry
#22. If anybody wants to be a rock star they've gotta try hard enough. They're not gonna get it handed to them
Marilyn Manson
#23. You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do.
Taylor Hanson
#24. I'm a very early riser, and so I like to get up and try hard to write before the day even really gets started. Just me and a pot of coffee - I find I can get a lot done that way.
Cliff Sloan
#25. Amidst globalisation, trends are becoming worldwide, so it's important to take a unique approach to what fashion has to offer. Be yourself in the middle of it all; fashion shouldn't be 'try hard.'
Carine Roitfeld
#26. Acting like an adult and being professional on set and getting my work done has just been a lifestyle for me. It's not something I have to try hard to do, necessarily.
Colin Ford
#27. I knew I could compete with most people in high school. It didn't quite give me an attitude, but it made me think I didn't have to try hard sometimes.
Ashton Eaton
#28. I do try hard to pick roles that differ. I love that about the job. I think the variety that's out there is to be taken advantage of and I enjoy that element of shape shifting with everything.
Emily Blunt
#29. When we believe that God expects us to try hard to become who Jesus wants us to be, we will live in that blurry, frustrating land of Should Be rather than trust in The One Who Is.
Emily P. Freeman
#30. I've now discovered that if you know what you want and try hard to achieve it, everyone else will try hard, too.
Paul Arden
#32. What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?
Carol S. Dweck
#33. Think of a Foundational tour as a form of marriage - a long-term relationship that both parties anticipate will be permanent, in which both parties assume a moral obligation to try hard to make it work before ending the relationship.
Reid Hoffman
#34. If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
Christopher Meloni
#35. Play not only keeps us young but also maintains our perspective about the relative seriousness of things. Running is play, for even if we try hard to do well at it, it is a relief from everyday cares.
Jim Fixx
#36. When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#37. Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart
Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?
Michael Jackson
#38. I am sweet, I am ugly, I am mean if you love me. I'll try hard just to please you, when I say I don't need you.
Sheryl Crow
#39. Do something you like that you feel is important. Don't worry about making money at it right away. If you try hard and long enough you will figure out a way to do it. Better to die happy than die rich.
Peter Menzel
#40. When God says hold up, wait, pray, it's not your time yet, our entire bodies rebel, legs kicking and flailing like some overturned dung beetle certain that if we try hard enough we might be able to gain a little traction on our own
Heather Choate Davis
#41. I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
Bill W.
#42. You can't escape an assasin," He leaned forward, shadows swallowing his eyes. "Hangings, bumbling bureaucrats, dishonest crewman, jail - those you can talk your way out of, you try hard enough. But this kind of death is the is the only kind of death.
Cassandra Rose Clarke
#43. All good things are possible if you try hard and stay stylish.
Susan Juby
#44. There's nothing you can't fuck up if you try hard enough.
Nick Hornby
#45. Happiness comes from spiritual wealth, not material wealth ... Happiness comes from giving, not getting. If we try hard to bring happiness to others, we cannot stop it from coming to us also. To get joy, we must give it, and to keep joy, we must scatter it.
John Templeton
#46. There are two kind of people. Those who believe in luck and ones who try hard.
Ali Gh.
#47. You really have to try hard to create space and, at least for a time, stop the political world from rushing in. The important thing is to remain sane.
George Osborne
#48. I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.
Pep Guardiola
#49. I try hard to look hip but ladylike; current, but not like I'm trying to be 16.
Morgan Fairchild
#50. I write late into the night at the Tutweiler in downtown Birmingham, and try hard to turn down that second cheeseburger at Milo's over by UAB, which has the best one in the whole wide world.
Rick Bragg
#51. Coincidence", he finally said. "Statisticans looking for connections can always find odd coincidences and statistical anomalies, if they try hard enough.
Brandon Sanderson
#52. I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.
William J. Clinton
#53. Oh my darling one, how long you wander from me, how weary I grow of waiting and looking, and calling for you; sometimes I shut my eyes, and shut my heart towards you, and try hard to forget you because you grieve me so, but you'll never go away, oh you never will.
Emily Dickinson
#54. Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough.
John Wyndham
#55. With my own comics, I try hard to get the vision in my head onto paper, to have one match the other as closely as possible. With the 'Airbender' comics, I'm working with someone else's vision, an already-established vision. I want to stay true to what's come before.
Gene Luen Yang
#56. You may wish to be loving - you may even try with all your might - but your love will never be pure unless you are free from resentment. When we are free from resentment, loving is effortless. When we have to try hard to love, this is generally a sign that we are repressing our resentments ...
John Gray
#57. Anything can be a bucket if you try hard enough and believe.
Abraham Lincoln
#58. The earnest worker soon learns his own weakness. If you seek humility, try hard work; if you would know your nothingness, attempt some great thing for Jesus.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. I'm a competitive person and it is in my nature to try hard in every match I play. The only time I'm not competitive is when I'm playing against my mom.
Michael Chang
#60. I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
Ben Elton
#61. I think it's really important to be kind, especially to people whose lives are grim - I try hard to cheer people up in as many ways as I can - if all else fails - I tell 'em a joke!
Jo Brand
#62. If one limb of the body is defected or inflicted with, disease, the whole feels tha pai. Some way if any department, minister or official of the state is faulty, the whole country is effected. An administrator should try hard to curb it.
Chanakya
#63. I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.
Ted Allen
#66. Don't try so hard to fit in, and certainly don't try so hard to be different just try hard to be you.
Zendaya
#67. I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
Gary Jennings
#68. Maybe if I try hard enough, we'll fall into each other and become one single person and we can share our pain instead of carrying it by ourselves.
Jessica Sorensen
#69. I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.
Jeff Bridges
#70. There is a power in people who dream big and who try hard.
Harold Klemp
#71. I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.
Alva Noto
#72. I begin to think a body may get any reasonable thing in this world if they will only try hard enough for it!
E.D.E.N. Southworth
#73. When you try hard to find happiness for other, you will unknowingly find yourself on the island of happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#74. You don't want to seem too eager, too romantic - otherwise, it just looks a bit try-hard. But I do think that a first date should be intimate. So I'd choose a nice dinner somewhere cozy, not too crowded, with good wine.
Kit Harington
#75. As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.
Lori Greiner
#76. Surely if we all try hard, we can all lift ourselves up high above the average. It looks a little difficult mathematically, but that's nothing.
Stephen Leacock
#77. One: Don't kill yourself.
Two: Don't kill each other.
Three: Try hard not to kill nobody else, but if you have to, better if it ain't fam'ly.
Rick Bragg
#78. I think the attitude I was trying to learn myself was to really try hard, to give a great effort, to really care, and to let the results go where they are going to go. But at the same time, I don't have to be happy, and I shouldn't be happy, with less than my best.
Tom Lehman
#79. You can work together if you try hard.
Skyla
#80. I see much less of an ambition gap and much more of a workplace and society that isn't allowing us to use the talent that is multiplied well beyond this room ... There are millions of women out there who ... need more than, Honey, you can do it if you try hard enough.
Anne-Marie Slaughter
#81. Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
James Broughton
#82. I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
Markus Zusak
#83. Some girls look to fill the emptiness with their rebellious ways and get into trouble. Other girls try hard to fill the emptiness with good things and get praise. But both girls are reaching for something we'll never find outside of God.
Emily P. Freeman
#84. When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.
Patricia Ryan
#85. Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself.
Bill Murray
#86. When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
Edna O'Brien
#87. I try hard not to judge anyone, and I try to bless everyone who is a part of my life, particularly anyone with whom I am having any problems
Jim Henson
#89. The Christian message is not an exhortation - "try hard to be good." Good advice, but there is no saving gospel in that.
Halford Luccock
#90. Effortlessness is the key to success. Don't fight. Don't try hard. Just allow yourself to sit. This relaxing way of sitting is also resting. Allow your body to rest.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#91. Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.
Rodney Crowell
#92. Don't force to become the top, but loosen up to be the top ... (as in don't try hard when people are before you but be glad ... instead of working up your energy for the highest honor)
Florie Jo Alicer
#93. Fate is a future you didn't try hard enough to change.
J.A. Konrath
#94. I'm not the type to look back over my shoulder, or at least I try hard not to be. Gone is gone; pretending anything else is a waste of time.
Tana French
#95. I always knew I wanted to play golf and go to college. I try hard to be a positive role model, especially on the golf course. I try to carry myself well, and don't do anything outrageous. I try to play the game like a gentleman and give everyone respect. That's how the game should be played.
Dustin Johnson
#96. Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Wislawa Szymborska
#97. I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
#98. I'm just a normal mother with the same struggles as any other mother who's trying to do everything at once and trying to be a wife and maintain a relationship. There's absolutely nothing perfect about my life, but I just try hard.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#100. Since the fall of the human race, we've been alternately telling ourselves that we are good, that if we try hard enough we'll be good enough, or that being or that being good is an impossibility, so we should just give up and have fun.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
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