Top 15 Try Quotes
#1. There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother Teresa
#2. The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.
Diego Rivera
#4. As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
Lea DeLaria
#5. Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.
Kate Bosworth
#6. Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.
Greg Berlanti
#7. I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.
Asafa Powell
#8. And even if you do wear a maid outfit, it doesn't change the fact that you're strong or that you're smart or that you try really hard at everything you do. I think you'd still deserve to walk with your head held high.
Hiro Fujiwara
#9. I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
Robert M. Gates
#10. You don't judge me, you don't try and make it better. You just let me feel bad while making me feel really good . . . I want to do that for you, too.
Jay Crownover
#11. I try to challenge myself as much as possible, as often as possible.
Alan Dean Foster
#12. We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation] ... This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.
Lorenzo Snow
#13. But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
Marcel Proust
#14. No one who worked in "Corrections" appeared to give any thought to the purpose of our being there, any more than a warehouse clerk would consider the meaning of a can of tomatoes, or try to help those tomatoes understand what the hell they were doing on the shelf.
Piper Kerman
#15. Hold your head up, there's a light in the sky
I know your fed up but you must try to survive
Each moment's precious, don't let life pass you by
Keep focused, keep your eyes on the prize.
Macklemore
#16. I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.
Haruki Murakami
#17. I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
Caio Fonseca
#18. You can never change the truths of history. You can only learn from them and use them to try and build a better world.
Timothy Pina
#19. If trying harder doesn't work, try softer.
Lily Tomlin
#20. I wish what I do was all real. Some of it's real, some of it's an illusion and I try to blur the line between both, but unfortunately I've got to be honest with you. Taking a $1 bill and turning it into a $100 - unfortunately it's not real.
Criss Angel
#22. "I do not ask for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the world within."
Louisa May Alcott
#23. I'm not one of those girls who can think, 'Right, I'll put a scarf with that and a little brooch there and maybe a vintage jacket.' I'm so impressed with girls who look terrific in a little thing they picked up at the local charity shop. I just look scruffy when I try to do vintage.
Sophie Winkleman
#24. The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are the things they try to repress. The imitate and make out they love life!
Andre Gide
#26. If others try to blame you for their own negative energy, let it go and forget about it! It's their problem ... not yours!
Timothy Pina
#27. I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.
Ronda Rousey
#28. All it takes is for me to try and not think of Garrett, and suddenly, he's consuming my every idle musing. Picking a radio station? Garrett only listened to NPR. Browsing the refrigerator for orange juice? Garrett likes the pulp style best.
Abby McDonald
#29. I try to tell myself I'm not schizophrenic. But when I'm not acting, I'm not alive. Everyday is just not heightened enough for me. I'm more focused, more interesting when I'm working.
Swoosie Kurtz
#30. Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.
Dave Eggers
#31. Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death. You try to be a model of kindness and love and forgiveness to all those around you, because you have received kindness and love and forgiveness from God through Christ. That's what Christianity is.
Patricia Heaton
#32. Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.
Charles Shaar Murray
#33. Imagery is the most important to me when singing stories. I try to paint pictures with the words and decorate with little to no singing ... let the song do the work.
Shelby Lynne
#34. I've been an actor for 14 years now and a lot of that time was spent in theatre and television. Then I moved to L.A. to try and build upon that and it's starting to pay off!
David Oyelowo
#35. The transcendent experience is brotherly love, nature, harmony and unity. Cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process.
Edgar Mitchell
#36. I don't really pay too much attention to designers, I know what I like and I just try to find it, and I always try to find a cheaper deal because I have a tendency to be a cheapskate sometimes.
Bethany Cosentino
#37. Love one another. My final lesson of history is the same as that of Jesus.
You may think that's a lot of lollipop but just try it. Love is the most practical thing in the world. If you take an attitude of love toward everybody you meet, you'll eventually get along.
Will Durant
#38. Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and let their tempos move you emotionally and corporeally. Try to assimilate new ideas by trying out the rhythms of those you encounter.
Alexandra Katehakis
#39. Don't try to be spiritual. That is only a word in the dictionary. Make it your goal to become a normally functioning individual. Let these principles shape you according to your real nature of a simple, decent, honest, unafraid human being.
Vernon Howard
#40. What more could anyone want than to try to change and be changed by someone?
Catherine Lacey
#41. I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face and concentrate on what is really going on deep within my subjects.
Joyce Tenneson
#42. If you try to be someone else, you rob God of who He is trying to make YOU to be.
Miles McPherson
#43. I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.
Alice Oswald
#44. I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.
Robert Plant
#45. I try not to have too many rituals because I believe that rituals don't help you win. I used to do rituals a lot and it was crazy.
Serena Williams
#46. I really like baking, and I really like playing video games. I saw a few geeky baking blogs but I never saw a show on television or on the Internet like that. So I thought, 'Why not be the first to try it out?' And it went really well.
Rosanna Pansino
#47. I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
Zach Johnson
#48. Separation is the worst. There's no good way to deal with it, other than to get on the phone and do Skype and try to visit.
Michael Ian Black
#49. You can't lose what you serve. That's the secret. What you serve, you can't lose. What you don't serve and what you try to hold onto, you can't hold onto. It's always slipping out of your fingers.
Adyashanti
#50. I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.
Daniel Johns
#51. I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.
Sam Cooke
#52. Whatever you do try not to focus on the mistakes of yesterday. It doesn't matter if you've fallen numerous of times, the best thing to do is to rise up again. Happy New Year 2017.
Euginia Herlihy
#53. The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense.
Chuck Palahniuk
#54. Try never to find humor in peoples dismay and misfortune ... so that they won't find humor in yours
Timothy Pina
#55. I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.
Avril Lavigne
#56. It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again ... " Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.
Damon Lindelof
#57. The only reason the field continues to grow is because of increasing demand. The more we try to make ourselves feel better, the worse we seem to feel.
Simon Sinek
#59. A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.
Dwight L. Moody
#60. Tell me, would you seek me out and try to win me now?
Ah, no!
Charles Dickens
#61. On the weekend, I have a gym in my community. I try to do cardio. You just turn on some junk TV, and you don't realize what you're doing, and I love that.
Khloe Kardashian
#62. The next time you need to win someone over to your way of thinking, try nodding your head as you speak. People unconsciously mirror the body language of those around them in order to better understand what other people are feeling.
Travis Bradberry
#63. 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
#64. Sometimes you have to play like it's a little bit warmer, which is hard when you can't feel your face. You just try and do the best you can and make sure that you become really good friends with wardrobe, so that they give you all sorts of hand warmers and body warmers.
Colin Hanks
#65. I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.
Ludacris
#66. I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#67. I love learning. I tend to stop doing things once I get good at them, and to try something else I'm not as good at, leaving a bunch of fans going, "But he was really good at that. Why isn't he still doing it?"
Neil Gaiman
#68. I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.
Lil' Wayne
#69. It's about communication. It's about honesty. It's about treating people in the organization as deserving to know the facts. You don't try to give them half the story. You don't try to hide the story. You treat them as - as true equals, and you communicate and you communicate and communicate.
Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
#70. Don't show up late.
Don't try to slide out early.
Don't cheat your rep counts.
And definitely, don't hold back.
Leave it all in the gym!
Gunnar Peterson
#71. There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.
Marshall Faulk
#72. The harder you try to be good, the more you're starving to be bad. Not
Penelope Ward
#73. 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
#74. People will always try to scare you into things. Scare you away from things. Scare you into not wanting things you can't help wanting. You can't be afraid.
Megan Abbott
#75. It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it.
Wes Borland
#76. Do not try to reach the masses! If you say something good and right, masses will reach you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. Just try and live. Try and be happy. Or else, what's the fucking point?
Tillie Cole
#79. The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.
Rob Chapman
#80. If you think I'm one of those people who try to be funny at breakfast you're wrong. I'm invariably ill-tempered in the early morning.
Daphne Du Maurier
#81. Running opened up something beautiful in my life. I try to send the energy all over my body. I love the feeling of it.
Flea
#82. Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies ... our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.
Deepak Chopra
#83. You try so hard to shield me, and protect me, and really, there is no need, you try so hard to hide what you want, how you feel, and of course you can't.
Susan Hill
#84. There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.
Laura Wilkinson
#85. My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
Patrick Kane
#86. Don't leave, and try not to do anything crazy." Winter winked. "I shall be a vestibule of unhampered sanity." With
Marissa Meyer
#87. Did you ever try to pray for somebody? That their lives might be changed?
Edgar Cayce
#88. I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.
Charlie Kaufman
#89. Change only what you can't live with, but try to accept who you are, and say yes to what makes you unique. Your confidence will make you sexier than any beauty product or accessory you could possibly buy.
Laura Mercier
#90. In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.
Kurt Braunohler
#91. I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.
Dalai Lama XIV
#92. You never know just what you can do until you try.
Joseph Delaney
#93. The probability of direct confrontation increases with the aggressiveness of the enemy. So, rather than try to outbid the enemy with complicated schemes, one should, on the contrary, try to outbid him in simplicity
Carl Von Clausewitz
#94. To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.
Thomas Jefferson
#97. Amanda and I both paused to take in that bit of wisdom. And try to decide if it even was wisdom.
Robin Brande
#98. I'm a big fan of cultural music, and that's how I try to expand my playing, by listening to music that is not conventionally American.
Steve Vai
#99. Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
H.P. Lovecraft
#100. If Chess is the switch," Loretta said, "how does he turn the Fog off?"
Bea bit her lower lip. "I don't know - ask Chess."
"How would I know?" I said. "You try being a switch.
Joel N. Ross
