Top 100 We Should Try Quotes
#1. We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature of our birth.
Shirley Franklin
#2. When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.
John Legend
#3. Wisdom says we should try to make a relationship work not because we have strong feelings but because it's a good match.
Gary L. Thomas
#4. We may not be able to offer long-term employment, but we should try to offer long-term employability.
Brian Corby
#5. When it touches your soul, truth is like fire," he began. "As you know, when we rest too close to the fire we quickly become uncomfortable. Too close and it even becomes painful. But that doesn't always mean we should try to elude its flames.
Serena Chase
#6. Grief and pain are like joy and peace; they are not things we should try to snatch from each other. They're sacred.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#7. Even though there is so much to be unhappy about in this world, we should try to create something amazing and beautiful and interesting despite all of the problems.
Chris Cobb
#8. We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk.
Colleen Dewhurst
#9. I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the ways in which traditionally men would. I often find that my points of view are expressed by male characters.
Danae Elon
#10. Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy. Instead of comparing our lives with people we don't know who are making sacrifices we don't see, we should try to find the right balance between home and work life.
LZ Granderson
#11. We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.
Mary Martin
#12. Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.
Anne Lamott
#13. We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception.
Liz Tuccillo
#14. Some actors really like to do only a few, some like Casey [Affleck] will do as many takes as there is electrical power. At some point, you'll say, "Listen, I think it's really good." And he'll say, "You sure? You sure? There's not some other way we should try it?"
Kenneth Lonergan
#15. We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#16. Our visit to this planet is short, so we should use our time meaningfully, which we can do by helping others wherever possible. And if we cannot help others, at least we should try not to create pain and suffering for them.
Dalai Lama
#17. Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
John Holt
#18. There are all kinds of love. We place too much emphasis on romantic love as the be-all and end-all. But there is brotherly love. Sisterly love. Love for mom. Love for dad. And naturally, vice-versa. Even with our enemies, we should try to turn them into friends through love.
Mark Andrew Poe
#19. We [photographers] have the tools and the power to create images - we should try to make them as truthful as possible.
Petra Collins
#20. If something can be proven to work, we should try it ... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.
Nicola Sturgeon
#21. Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different
Oprah Winfrey
#22. God has raised his hand to give us respite. It could be he has something more in mind for us. With this time on our hands, we should try to figure out what it could be. Because HE don't do pointless acts of charity.
E.L. Doctorow
#23. I was excited about the fourth movie I guess conceptually because, what I felt we should do it, we should try to make it a conceptual jump like Terminator did to T2. It was still the Terminator franchise, but it was something kind of bigger and grander.
Paul W. S. Anderson
#24. Democracy
rule by the people
sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.
Edward Abbey
#25. We should try to live a life of a human once before we die, because there is a difference between having a life and living a life.
M.H. Rakib
#26. Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could
Tony Blair
#27. As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have.
Michael Houbrick
#28. Rather than converting people from one organised religion to another organised religion, we should try to convert people from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation and from cruelty to compassion.
S. N. Goenka
#29. We need grace in our lives, and I'm not talking about heavenly grace. I'm talking about human grace. We should try and be warm and friendly.
Letitia Baldrige
#30. When we think we know people inside out and we think we know what's best for them we should try to remember we don't even know what's best for ourselves.
Hayley Williams
#31. Patrick thought we should try to put an audience in front of one of the workshops, basically in front of the class and see how the performers rose to having an audience there, because he said, "You know, it's a really interesting test, because sometimes it gets even funnier."
Brian Henson
#32. No point in thinking, you just have to get on with life. We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try.
Kate Atkinson
#33. If you've ever seen the movie Spinal Tap, I think you know where we should try and reach by the end of our crime Story.
Shawn Coyne
#34. Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.
Laozi
#35. We should try to ensure that everyone has a fair opportunity to find a great life. It's a quest that will require political will and ingenious policies. President Obama's proposed expansion of the earned-income tax credit goes in this direction, but we need more.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#36. I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.
Peter Thiel
#37. Vince or Brad or Benicio would say, Maybe we should try this, and Guy was open to changes.
Dennis Farina
#38. We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.
George Arthur Buttrick
#39. Letting go of the past does not mean that we should try to forget everything that has happened to us and not learn anything from our previous thinking patterns and actions. Letting go simply means that we do not allow the past to control our current thoughts and actions.
Gudjon Bergmann
#40. We should try to link our personal lives with the cause for which we struggle, with the cause of building communism.
Nadezhda Krupskaya
#41. If suffering were an unavoidable part of our existence, we should try to alleviate it as far as possible in practical, earthly ways.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#43. We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.
Miguel De Unamuno
#44. There's this idea that there was a point in our childhood when we were in some way better than we are now and we should try to hang on to that.
John Darnielle
#45. Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.
Joyce Appleby
#46. We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig
#47. Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.
Julia Cameron
#48. I argue with wife over what little pieces of real estate investments we should try to pay on and hold, and which to let go back. We always said, "Put it in land, and you can always walk on it." We did, but no buyers would walk on it with us.
Will Rogers
#49. We shouldn't be copying what we see. We should try to find our own sense of style, to believe in ourselves.
Donatella Versace
#50. Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.
Seinabo Sey
#51. The rule says that we should try to repay, in kind, what another person has provided us.
Robert B. Cialdini
#52. We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be.
Paul Krugman
#53. We should try to eliminate things that unnecessarily piss people off.
Michael O'Leary
#54. We should all focus on trying to be compassionate to others at all times, and be as understanding as possible towards people we know are hurting. We should try to be there to lift each other up.
Avril Lavigne
#55. I don't think we should try to make space our own. I believe that as modern people we should live in mobility. We should always be moving.
Yohji Yamamoto
#56. That we should wish to cast him down and have no one in his place is not a thought that occurs to his mind. That we should try to destroy the Ring itself has not yet entered into his darkest dream. In which no doubt you will see our good fortune and our hope. For imagining war he has let loose war,
J.R.R. Tolkien
#57. We should keep a careful diary of our moments of envy: they are our covert guides to what we should try to do next.
Alain De Botton
#58. With 'Supermoms,' my ex-husband and father of my 15-year-old child was a writer-producer on that project. We're both of the mind that we should try and handle these changing times as best we can. He's very forward-thinking about brand marketing.
Julie Warner
#59. Unfortunately we treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves and the rest will come naturally, like a Platinum Rule.
Erica Goros
#60. You know, baby," he said, just to see her catch fire, "I think we should try again with the spanking. I could make it erotic. Make you love it." "I could hit you over the head with a frying pan in your sleep too," she said. "Make you love that.
Christine Feehan
#61. We should try our best to pour out all the burdens in our spirit by prayer until all of them have left us.
Watchman Nee
#62. We should try to keep our mothers in the home and that's where the whole Reform platform hangs together.
Garry Breitkreuz
#63. Organizing around a common interest is a fundamental part of democracy. We should no more try to take away the right of individuals to collectively bargain than we should try to take away the right to a secret ballot.
Michael Bloomberg
#64. I used to love the way everyone talked about food as if it were one of the most important things in life. And, of course, it is. Without it we would die. Each of us eats about one thousand meals each year. It is my belief that we should try and make as many of these meals as we can truly memorable.
Robert Carrier
#65. There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
Dana Rohrabacher
#66. I think we should try to be responsible and educate ourselves. I'm simply doing that and traveling, learning first hand, and seeing first hand what's going on.
Angelina Jolie
#67. Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
Euripides
#68. I'm a little mad. He shouldn't have said whatever he said to make you so upset. But we should try not to judge people based on one instance.
Jennifer Castle
#69. I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.
Walter Dean Myers
#70. We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the ... defanging Saddam..
Carl Levin
#71. Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto
#72. Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone - in order to know them better, not in order to know something else.
William H Gass
#73. I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.
Joel Osteen
#74. ...we need to remind ourselves that natural systems are much more finely tuned than we think, and if we like the way they currently work, then we should try very, very hard to not screw with them.
Rowan Jacobsen
#75. when fate gives us lemons, we should try to make lemonade, not apple juice.
Noah J. Goldstein
#76. Priusquam autem ad creationem, hoc est ad finem omnis disputationis, veniamus: tentanda omnia existimo.
However, before we come to [special] creation, which puts an end to all discussion: I think we should try everything else.
Johannes Kepler
#77. For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams.
Heidi Klum
#78. We are sinners. But we should not take the failure to live up to this high moral standard as an authoritative objection to the truth. We should try to do as much good as we can and to support and put up with each other.
Pope Benedict XVI
#79. We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.
Gary Smith
#80. Now's the time for sweet good-bye To what could never be, To promises we ne'er could keep, To a magic you and me. If we should try to prove our love, Our love would be in danger. Let's put our love beyond all harm. Good-bye - sweet, gentle stranger.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#81. It's hard. We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's intoxicatingly liberating.
Liz Tuccillo
#82. We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough.
[Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.
Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]
Plautus
#83. We need to take a harder look at what's really going on. Stop trying to treat the symptoms and treat the cause of the problem. Maybe we should try a little harder to help these kids before they feel so cornered that they turn into monsters.
Aaron B. Powell
#84. Most of us die with our music underplayed ... We should try to step out of our comfort zones and do the things we're capable of.
Mary Kay Ash
#85. 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
#86. Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ... But underneath they feed a hunger for justice ... you offer to divert them, and you show them by stealth the orderly world in which we should all try to be living.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#87. Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" If you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably engaged in the wrong line of work.
James C. Collins
#88. Europeans should be patient and try to find a formula to resolve this nuclear issue. We are determined to remove any ambiguities over our nuclear ambitions and also protect our right.
Hamid-Reza Assefi
#89. what matters is not that we believe in God. God is not small-minded. What matters is for us to understand that life is serious and rich. We should appreciate it and also try to make the world a better place. Whoever finds a balance between the two is close to God.
David Lagercrantz
#90. It's not communism, it's shouldn't be that everybody gets a try no matter how good or bad they are. It's our profession and our art, so we should eventually strive to be working with the best people.
Amy Poehler
#91. Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we ... yes, I assure you ... we should be begging to be under control again at once.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#92. We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?'
Ellen Stofan
#93. Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll choose as we think they should?
Orson Scott Card
#95. We should not try to understand God from what we think we know about love, but rather we should strive to understand love in the light of who God is.
Benno Van Der Toren
#96. Too often we assume that what is "best" means that our children should live their lives according to the script that has worked for us. Without realizing it, we try to create carbon copies of ourselves.
Charles F. Boyd
#97. We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing. I think that's where a lot of women go wrong. They should try to whack it a few times and see what happens.
Helen Alfredsson
#98. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears. We
Paulo Coelho
#99. I frequently say we should let God out of the Sunday-morning box we try to keep Him in and allow Him to invade our Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday too.
Joyce Meyer
#100. We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this.
P. J. O'Rourke
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