Top 100 Why Try Quotes
#1. I mean, if everything is already set in stone, why try? I prefer to think that we're choosing in every moment what happens next.
Rainbow Rowell
#2. I can understand there are things like shadows they need to fix after a shoot, but it's unfair to represent an image of yourself if it's not true. They're gonna see what you look like on film anyway, so why try to cover all your wobbly bits in a photo?
Emily Blunt
#3. Why try to slot fractured families into neat little boxes in this day and age?
Liane Moriarty
#4. The question, Why try for greatness? would seem almost tautological. If you're doing something you care that much about, and you believe in its purpose deeply enough, then it is impossible to imagine not trying to make it great. It's just a given.
James C. Collins
#5. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
Edith Sitwell
#6. Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
Robert Breault
#7. Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?
Edith Sitwell
#8. Don't ever be someone you're not. We are all that we are, so why try to change that?
Shannon Leto
#9. Just say yes, Lily. Why try avoiding the unavoidable?"
Ah, why indeed!
Ramona Wray
#10. Why try to change who you were born to be and force yourself into who you think everyone will find more beautiful? Society has failed people to the point where they feel they cannot like themselves in the skin they were born in.
Luvvie Ajayi
#11. The LORD directs our steps, so why try to understand everything along the way? PROVERBS 20:24 NLT
Joel Osteen
#12. Truth: I'd rather leave it
to chaos, nature's oddball math;
why try drunk punching through
a losing brawl?
Danny Jacobs
#13. After a few decades, you come to a place where you realize that there's really no difference between trying and not trying ... If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my part to help them. If they aren't, no amount of hectoring them does any good. So why try?
James S.A. Corey
#14. Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.
Robert Breault
#15. If you have a reasonable system for pursuing success, it can survive a lot of face-plants along the way. That knowledge makes success seem accessible. If you think successful people have some sort of superpower or special connections, why try?
Scott Adams
#16. believe that hard work pays off, then you work hard; if you think it's hard to get ahead even when you try, then why try at all? Similarly,
J.D. Vance
#17. Hell, if they wanted to act like idiots, why try to stop them?
Nicholas Sparks
#18. Love is the biggest mystery of the universe. But why try to solve it, when one simply view it for what it is and marvel at the wonders and strangeness it brings?
Arnold Arre
#19. Why try to fit in when you a stand out?
Joe Budden
#21. One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#22. Why try to fit in, when you're meant to stand out?
Dyphia Blount
#23. Asking Jean-Claude not to be a pain in the ass was like asking rain not to be wet. Why try?
Laurell K. Hamilton
#24. Why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid. Why try to make me like you? Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle? Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle? Why do you scream when I do what I did? Im a kid.
Shel Silverstein
#26. What I have been asking myself for years is: WHY?!
Why kill yourself in the gym? Why try to avoid a little bit of a gut? Why feel bad for eating half of a cake? This doesn't mean that I killed somebody, plus I left the other half of the cake for tomorrow, I didn't finish all of it!
Sara Anzellotti
#27. Am I to follow him?" the master enquired uneasily, with a touch on his reins.
"No," answered Woland, "why try to pursue what is completed?
Mikhail Bulgakov
#28. I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
Edward Abbey
#29. I think when you wear the brand anyway, why not go out and try to promote it and make it as cool as you can? The fact that I can continue to do what I've always done and kind of become the face of that brand is to me, kind of just makes sense. It doesn't make sense not to do it I guess.
Jason Aldean
#30. A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
Carson Daly
#31. Then let me be your mercy," he said. "I'll never be able to give you smart answers about why we suffer, but I can come into your world and try to be some kind of help to you.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#32. 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
#33. I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?
Brad Paisley
#34. Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.
Orson Scott Card
#35. When you form a team, why do you try to form a team? Because teamwork builds trust and trust builds speed.
Russel Honore
#36. Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.
Charles Stross
#37. Wait a second Why should you care what they think of you? When you're all alone, by yourself, do you like you? Do you like you? You don't have to try so hard, you don't have to give it all away, you just have to get up You don't have to change a single thing.
Colbie Caillat
#38. Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.
John Corbett
#39. You can try reading books that will help you be a leader, like Marshall Rosenberg and Thich Nhat Hanh. Be very humble and say, "I don't know why. I don't feel qualified, but I accept this role that you gave me, and so help me."
Sandra Cisneros
#40. Don't try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can't is that nobody could. It's no excuse. You can break the tradition by being the first person to make it happen!
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?
Dean Kamen
#42. Why, whatever were we thinking, Cassie?" I find my voice and try to keep up with the banter. "We're not being very ladylike, at all!
Kandi Steiner
#43. Levi watched her carefully again, his gaze roaming over her face, as if he was trying to see into her mind. "You're not lying. Why are you doing this?"
"Because if I try to shut you out you'll cause me more problems than I want to deal with. And I don't want to kill you.
Katie Reus
#44. I really, honest to God, didn't know what to read until I was out of college and living in Boston, and someone said, 'Well, why don't you read Hemingway?' And I thought, 'OK. I guess I'll try this Hemingway fellow.'
Tom Drury
#45. You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.
Jon Turteltaub
#46. Here's the thing: We have plenty of time. These are cockroaches and we want to kill them all. They're just absolute pieces of garbage and we will get them. So why don't we try the air campaign first?
Eric Bolling
#47. I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
Bahman Ghobadi
#48. I've thought often about why - why?! - anyone, especially other women, would try to disrupt feminist work that combats violence. What in the world could be the point of that? The only reason I've come up with, and I think it makes sense, is fear of becoming that "impure" woman.
Jessica Valenti
#49. I hate the bigotry you believe in. But I'll try not to hate you."
"Why?" he asked. His voice was cold, as she remembered it.
"Hate eats the hater," she quoted from a familiar text of the Telling.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#50. Superiority? Inferiority?
Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?
Frantz Fanon
#51. I didn't have good grades until I started dancing, because I didn't try - I didn't see the point. Once I realized why I wanted to go to college, I started to study and do well. I knew I had to have a certain GPA to get in.
Kyle Abraham
#52. It's fun to play around ... it's human nature to try to select the right horse ... But for the average person, I'm more of an indexer ... The predictability is so high ... For 10, 15, 20 years you'll be in the 85th percentile of performance. Why would you screw it up?
Charles R. Schwab
#53. Stupidy is easy, everyone can learn it... You just say to stupid stuff and you are the big Job,... but try to be a wise that's what's hard and most people just try to destroy the wise people why??
Because they are too stupid to realease it!
Deyth Banger
#54. Don't you wonder sometimes why so much gets heaped on certain people?" I almost told the truth. That truth being, "I wouldn't dare." I wouldn't dare dwell on a thing like that. I try to look forward in my life. Because what's behind me is a little hard to take.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#55. If I were you, I wouldn't try and track her down."
"Why not?"
"Because when it comes to Dee, you're better off not knowing where she's going or what she's up to. You'll only have to lie to the authorities later.
Shelly Laurenston
#56. Why did I even try then? Of course, in asking the question, I'd already known the answer; faith. I hoped; I couldn't help it.
J.M. Northup
#57. I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary ... So long as I've learned something about why.
Alberto Giacometti
#58. There is a reason why the other person thinks and acts as they do. Ferret out that reason - and you have the key to their actions, perhaps to their personality. Try honestly to put yourself in his place.
Dale Carnegie
#59. Tom Cruise shouldn't try to win Oscars. He should just smile and kick people in the face and leave the acting to Hugh Jackman. Why Hugh Jackman? I dunno; come up with your own example, smart-ass.
Doug Benson
#60. Why would I try to change who I look like, what my race is? No. No no no. You are beautiful because that's the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it.
Shay Mitchell
#61. Most of promoting seems unnatural to me, and I wish I didn't have to do it. I'm not especially good at tooting my own horn. However, I do love to connect with readers. That's why I try to keep up with my social media even when I don't have a new book coming out.
Linda Conrad
#62. When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
Dinah Maria Mulock
#63. My usual confessional is a straight Macallan but not before 5 o'clock. Perhaps that's why I try and have my crises in the evening.
Jeanette Winterson
#64. When I was a teenager, I met a comedian who I admired, and he was very rude to me. That's why when people come up to me I try not to be rude. I don't want to name who he is, but it really put me off watching his stuff since.
Stephen Merchant
#65. Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on going? Why would you take something bad out of your mouth and hand it to another, saying, Here, eat this?
Elizabeth Berg
#66. The real question is, Why do you feel as though that's emasculating? A man can't have a conflict? When you try to do art, it's how it lands on people, and hopefully some people will see it the way that I saw it, which is all of these awful choices come from the place of a man who's damaged.
Wendell Pierce
#67. Why did he have to be sensible? This maddened me. It was my body. I should be able to decide when and if I needed medical attention. I let out a determined huff. They could try to make me go, but I wouldn't be forced.
Brenda Pandos
#68. As long as you enjoy investing, you'll be willing to do the homework and stay in the game. That's why I try to make the show so entertaining, because if you aren't interested, you'll either miss the opportunity to make money in the market or not pay enough attention and end up losing your shirt.
Jim Cramer
#69. I had patients who didn't die because they had too many pets to try to find homes for. It's why women live longer than men with the same health problems.
Bernie Siegel
#70. If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?
Andrew Mason
#71. Life baffles me most days. Maybe that's why I write. To try and make sense of it all.
Christy Hall
#72. I always wondered why I didn't try to seduce you, since you're so good-looking, more appealing than any woman.
Debra Strattford
#73. Why are things always happy in Japanese restaurants? Just once, maybe I'd like to try the Sashimi of Discontent, or the Heartbroken Hand Roll
Amy Vansant
#74. Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question of such immense and worldwide importance, both from the humane and Christian stand-point?
Henry Dunant
#75. I can be nostalgic for the past, and I can romanticize the future, but I cannot sugar coat the here and now. I think that's why I try not to think about it, and I think that's the exact same reason why I need to.
Ellie Rose McKee
#76. Doing that ... pertecting her like that-it was very brave." He paused. "Stupid, but still brave. Why did you even try it?
Richelle Mead
#77. You're not going to be immediately good at anything you do. You wouldn't quit on the first day of your new job, so why quit on the first try at doing something else?
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#78. Because once the force field blew, you'd be the first ones they'd try to capture, and the less you knew, the better," says Haymitch. "The first ones? Why?" I say, trying to hang on to the train of thought. "For the same reason the rest of us agreed to die to keep you alive," says Finnick.
Suzanne Collins
#79. I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.
Elizabeth George
#80. I don't understand what apps are on my phone. Why do they ask for passwords? Why do they all ask for different passwords? It's so frustrating that I end up just reading a book every time I try to go online.
Chelsea Handler
#81. I was born a jackdaw; why should I try to be an owl?
Ogden Nash
#82. Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.
Dainin Katagiri
#83. Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
Garrett Camp
#84. It's not easy to subdue a person bigger than you and not hurt him in the process."
"Well, I think I found your problem, then. Why don't we try hurting him?
Michael J. Sullivan
#85. You going to try the rest of your gear on?" he asked on an exhale. "Or you want to whine about your pants a little more?"
"Don't make me flip you off."
"Why would I deprive you of a favorite hobby?" [Vishous to Butch]
J.R. Ward
#86. I think sometimes I get carried away, like I'm speaking to an imaginary audience rather than just trying to figure something out for myself. Ideally, I try to balance that - that I'm asking these questions of myself, how does this work, why does this happen, what's going on here.
David Byrne
#87. Insomnia
I cannot get to sleep tonight.
I toss and turn and flop.
I try to count some fluffy sheep
while o'er a fence they hop.
I try to think of pleasant dreams
of places really cool.
I don't know why I cannot sleep -
I slept just fine at school.
Kathy Kenney-Marshall
#88. When you look into the eyes of your people out there that came to see you, that's when it's like, 'Yep, this is what it's all about.' This is why we don't sleep, and this is why we write songs and try to be the best. This moment right here onstage.
Luke Bryan
#89. We have 25 or so years invested in the work. Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try to find something wrong with it ...
Phil Jones
#90. One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second 'Lord of the Rings' film and having Gandalf in it. Why? You know, he died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell a thousand more seats? It's daft.
Nick Frost
#91. I get asked that a lot and I always go back to my mom's, 'No one has the right to beat you.' I take that to every venue that I'm in. She would say, 'Someone has to be the best in the world, why not you?' I always try to keep that in mind.
Ronda Rousey
#92. I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.
Isabel Allende
#93. Our poets do not write about it; our artists do not try to portray this remarkable thing. I don't know why. Is nobody inspired by our present picture of the universe? The value of science remains unsung by singers ... This is not yet a scientific age ...
Richard P. Feynman
#94. Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved.
Will Rogers
#95. Self-awareness is a great tool to combating resistance. When you feel resistance to taking action, stop in your tracks. Try to understand the 'why' behind it. Is the resistance valid?
Vatsala Shukla
#96. Let's be honest. Sometimes art is dangerous, though. And that's why governments sometimes get nervous about art. But one of the things I truly believe is if you try to suppress the arts, then I think you are suppressing the deepest dreams and aspirations of the people.
Barack Obama
#97. Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.
Bobby Womack
#98. I have a radical thought," Meryl said. "Instead of heading for the hills with guns, why don't we try to find something like the Red Cross, and volunteer. Try to do something constructive.
Joe Haldeman
#99. I try to rediscover why that object exists at all, and why one should take the trouble to reconsider It. I don't consider the technical or commercial parameters so much as the desire for a dream that humans have attempted to project onto an object.
Philippe Starck
#100. I never want to fall in love again,
Loneliness is vastly under rated.
On and off causes so much pain,
Vanity is why I still waited.
Every time I try to get close,
You close yet another door.
Our story is a ridiculous prose,
Understand I won't take anymore.
Ritoban Chakrabarti
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