Top 100 You Can Only Try Quotes
#1. How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to widen it.
Charlie Munger
#2. You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up.
Karen Marie Moning
#3. Faith is a choice like any other. If you're picking a career or a husband - or deciding whether to have a baby - there are feelings and reasons pro and con out the wazoo. But thinking it through is - at the final hour - horse dookey. You can only try out.
Mary Karr
#4. Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!
Joyce Meyer
#5. But one place ain't no different from no place else. People try and make it like everything's new only to find the devil done followed you wherever you moved and all you can do is hold him off whiles you catch your breath
Amina Gautier
#6. I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them ... It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks.
Annie Leibovitz
#7. If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy.
Chris Prentiss
#8. It was like falling in love - the things that get you are so small, the things that keep you up at night are so particular to you that when you try to explain, the only reward anyone can give you is a dumb polite nod.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#9. Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.
Pete Townshend
#10. The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.
James Altucher
#11. You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can.
Donnie Wahlberg
#12. Failure of your first attempt does not mean you can't be a winner of great battles; it rather means, you must trigger only when your target is in focus.
Israelmore Ayivor
#13. Although we try to control it in a million different ways, the only things you can ever really do to time are enjoy it, or waste it. That's it.
A.J. Compton
#14. Because we grow up, Filip,' Tedros exhaled. 'When you're young, you think your best friend is everything. But once you find real love... it changes. Your friendship can never be the same after that. Because no matter how much you try to keep both, your loyalty can only lie with one.
Soman Chainani
#15. I still get a little nervous before performing. You don't want to forget a lyric; you don't want to make a mistake. I still get butterflies. You can try to judge an audience, but you can only really judge things by the applause.
Tony Bennett
#16. You can only do what you can no matter how you try.
Kobo Abe
#17. I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other.
Lee Bermejo
#18. The basis of the Philosophy of Impossible Standard is that no matter how hard you try you can't ever be good enough. The Standard raises as you do. ( ... ) The Philosophy allows for only one result: we fail the Standard.
Niall Williams
#19. One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to learn how to do it is by doing it. You can't write by reading a book about it. The only way to learn how to write a book is to sit down and try to write a book
David McCullough
#20. Touring is just the most incredible experience, and whilst I try to share it, there are moments where you feel the only way you can really know is to be there in the moment feelings what you are feeling.
Natalie Gulbis
#21. You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
Rafael Nadal
#22. I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.
Carly Craig
#23. Nobles' sons are one of nature's great destructive forces, like floods or tornadoes. When you're struck with one of these catastrophes, the only thing an average man can do is grit his teeth and try to minimize the damage.
Patrick Rothfuss
#24. The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
Randy Travis
#25. You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.
Meg Cabot
#26. Believe you can,
believe you are eligible,
and try,
because its all gonna be good only when u take a first step to reach the last
Sambalme
#27. Never be afraid to try. The only angle through which you can approach success is by the "try-angle". You may fail if you try, but shame unto you if you don't try at all. If you fail ... rise up and try again and again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#28. Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.
Michael Chang
#29. I just started using this app called Wine and Dine. It's like Instagram, but only for food. You post what you're eating and follow your friends, and then you can say, 'I wanna try that,' and so when you go on your 'wanna try' list, it'll tell you where it is.
Gigi Hadid
#30. Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.
Chogyam Trungpa
#31. I try my best to create a good quote while sitting alone. But I can never create it. Only on talking to you I get lots of lines
Pawan Mehra
#32. and I don't think we can do anything for him. It only makes him worse if you try to be nice to him.
C.S. Lewis
#33. I must confess that over my career, I've actually downplayed the importance of DJs. It's such a different art form. Then all of a sudden you try it, and you think, 'Good God, these guys do work.' I used to be very cynical and very blase about it. I can only apologize.
Peter Hook
#34. I am not functioning very well. Living with the knowledge that the baby is dead is painful. I feel so far away from you, God. I can only try to believe that you are sustaining me and guiding me through this. Please continue to stand by my side.
Christine O'Keeffe Lafser
#35. If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at him. Whereas about writing, people always say: 'I don't know, I have not tried,' as though one had only to try and one would become a writer.
Leo Tolstoy
#36. I am the only one who can decide what will happen to me," Kaitlyn went on very quietly. "No one else. Me. And I've already made my decision. I'm going back to that place and I'm going to try to stop them any way I can. Whether you give me the shard or not is your decision, but I'm going back anyway.
L.J.Smith
#37. We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.
Joyce Meyer
#38. You are who you are because others say that's who you are. You can try to change who you are but it will only change the views of others who think you are what you really aren't.
Anonymous
#39. You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's only once you've worked through that and seen through that that you can come back and accept who you are. You have to try all the other options.
Pico Iyer
#40. I do understand! I understand what they do not, and that is you can only do with what you have. What God has given you. If you try to be anyone else, it is the worst thing that can happen because you cannot ever be them - and then you give up being you
Siri Mitchell
#41. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it.
Heidi Klum
#42. If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies, all very different. But it's really hard to do the accent. I tend to try and stay in it all day, which is the only way I can manage it.
Emily Blunt
#43. t is your own barrier, you set it, and only you can remove it. Remember that. So, do you want to try again or permanently give up?
Nabil N. Jamal
#44. You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do. Nobody can get on that tenor saxophone and play like Trane, because he's the only one who can spell out chords and sound good when he does it.
Wynton Marsalis
#45. Anything you do sustainably feels so good that you're a full-on addict as soon as you try it. If you eat only vegetables and fruits that you grow yourself from your garden, or organic food, it tastes so much better and is so much better for you, you can't really go back.
Daryl Hannah
#46. The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.
Roger Penrose
#47. Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet
Anonymous
#48. I think the place fed me completely. Not only was I in Uganda, but I was around many people who had a personal relationship with Idi Amin. I was eating the food constantly. I was culturally hanging out with the people. You can't help but absorb the energy, and try to get inside the culture.
Forest Whitaker
#49. Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it ... I can only do what I do.
Lydia Lunch
#50. The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it ... try to fake three laughs in an hour
ha ha ha ha ha
they'll take you away, man. You can't.
Lenny Bruce
#51. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that - a lot of time - and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory.
Ryu Murakami
#52. If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
Adam Giles
#53. Keeping it all together as a modern woman means multitasking, especially when you work. I think you always need to try your best, but at the same time you can only do what you can do, and you don't need to beat yourself up about it. I'm not white-picket-fence perfect.
Heidi Klum
#54. 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
#55. I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, so that it always has a life outside its social context. I don't believe that you can tell people anything; you can only draw them in.
Bruce Springsteen
#56. Like many other moms out there, I try to buy safe products for my family, but that can't be the only solution. You can't hire a team of scientists to do your shopping for you. At some point the government has to step in and ensure that chemicals are safe before our children are exposed to them.
Jessica Alba
#57. Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
Dr. Seuss
#58. There's something about those secrets that only the deceased person can rightly understand. Something that can't be explained, no matter how hard you try. They're what the dead person has to take with him to his grave. Like a valuable piece of luggage.
Haruki Murakami
#59. To try to pray is to pray. You can't fail at it. Nobody can ... It's the only human endeavor I can think of where trying is doing. Reaching out is holding on. Joining in is letting go.
Rick Hamlin
#60. You can't please everybody. There's that old saying that there's no sure formula for success, but the only sure fire formula for failure is to try to please everyone. You're not going to do that.
Matt Bomer
#61. The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
Judith Krantz
#62. - Choose a wish , Find a dream , Pick a wishing star , Let you hopes and freedoms sore high and free and far , Just believe in the impossible then work and try to do ; fo only those who dare to dream , Can make a dream come true.
Lillian Ross
#63. You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.
Lindsay Davenport
#64. Think about it: No matter who you are, the past plays a large part in your life. I am all about living in the present as best as I can. Try as I might, there is only so much I am able to achieve on this front.
Henry Rollins
#65. You only need two waves in a heat, so I try and keep my surfs short and sweet and not too draining. Keep them intense and try and get the two best waves I can.
Joel Parkinson
#66. The only people who try to tell you that you can't do something, are the people who have failed
Chris Jericho
#67. There is an old saying that you're a product of your environment. Parents can only do so much when eight hours of the day is spent at school. As parents, we try to teach our kids to be respectful to others and teach them old values, but a lot of it is down to the schools.
Tamer Hassan
#68. I at least know what I am and do not try to hide it from the rest of the world. Do you know what you are? Because you can only be one thing at a time.
Katlyn Charlesworth
#69. Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn't just mean that you can only do movies that are only about the good parts of us. You have to be able to eliminate the bad parts.
Kevin Spacey
#70. I may not be able to say these words to you but that doesn't mean I can't say it to the rest of the world. I'm not a poet. Nor do I try to be one. I simply share what I do in my spare time. All poetry springs from genuine feelings. I'm only a woman expressing herself to the world.
Tammy-Louise Wilkins
#71. Love can never be organized;it's the madness encircling it that really makes it what it is. It's only when you try to play with your mind that love starts becoming a burden- because love resides in your heart;it's not to be tampered with the silly thoughts that run in your brain.
Amrit Sinha
#72. From my experience, the only thing you can do is take what's written on the page and try, through your own curiosity and investigation, to make it your own and honor what the original intent was.
Colin Farrell
#73. When you try to forget, you will never be able to do it. It will only create a stronger memory. You can't erase an event or memory from your memory box or hippocampus. The memory will only get stronger.
Debasish Mridha
#74. You can't outrun what's inside of you. You can only acknowledge it, work around it, try and turn it into something better. I may not know exactly where I'm headed, but this time I'm choosing my own destiny.
Amy Engel
#75. You can't keep bearing all the weight. In the end, if you try to save everyone you'll only lose yourself.
Joe Hart
#76. Raise your quality standards as high as you can live with, avoid wasting your time on routine problems, and always try to work as closely as possible at the boundary of your abilities. Do this, because it is the only way of discovering how that boundary should be moved forward.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
#77. All you have in comedy, in general, is just going with your instincts. You can only hope that other people think that what you think is funny is funny. I don't have an answer but I just try to plough straight ahead.
Will Ferrell
#78. I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all the world can offer, and they temper you into something unbreakable because Lord knows they'll try
without let up
to break you.
Mary Karr
#79. I think that every record label has its trials and tribulations, its ups and downs. The only thing you can do is hope to recognize what it is that makes you great, and to try and continue to capture it.
El-P
#80. You might believe that it's only for their own good, but how does it feel when you try to manipulate the people you love? Are you teaching them that your love is conditional? Maybe through inquiry we can find another way.
Byron Katie
#81. Well, every movie is an experiment. And the only way you can grow at what you're doing is to take chances. You can't try to stick with what worked last time.
Judd Apatow
#82. I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.
Joe Dempsie
#83. Are you throwing darts at the challenges in your life? Hoping something sticks? Try using a laser instead! Choose the biggest challenge you have and take action as focused and precise as a laser. Darts can go anywhere, lasers only go where you aim them ...
James A. Murphy
#84. This world will try to beat you down. Only laughter can counteract that. Laughter is ammunition. Resupply often.
Richard Phillips
#85. Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
Sidney Sheldon
#86. If it's just the voice, then you can only do jokes. It's not really even about the impression so much. It's about the take and what you do with the person. I try to get a character across with the impression.
Frank Caliendo
#87. Whatever you do," Seth said around a chewy mouthful, "try not to leave me down here too long. You can only play a certain amount of Yahtzee games in a row before you become a lunatic."
"I'll keep that in mind.
Brandon Mull
#88. There's only one response, and I can tell you this because I see it every day. You LIVE. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises.
Jojo Moyes
#89. Stay as focused as possible and keep simplifying down your ideas till you have something small you can launch quickly and iterate on. Be ruthless in hiring only the best people. Keep fit and try to exercise even in the longest times.
Ian Hogarth
#90. Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
George Harrison
#91. Do not try to catch the happiness because happiness is not a thing you can catch, it is a thing you can create with your own mind only!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.
Pascal Bruckner
#93. Don't try to hurt anyone, you will not succeed because you can hurt only yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#94. So please try to keep in mind that, when I plague you, I do so because you're the only person I can plague.
Kellyn Roth
#95. Try to get inside the world of Homer and see what it would be like to think with his view of reality. Only then can you begin to judge it, because only then do you really understand it.
John Mark Reynolds
#96. Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
Brian Tracy
#97. You think I don't know how that feels? There's only one response, and I can tell you this because I see it every day. You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises." "Oh,
Jojo Moyes
#98. You really can't go home again. Sometimes, that's a good thing. Sometimes, when you try, you find out that home isn't really there anymore ... but that it wasn't only in your head before. Home actually existed. Home wasn't just a dream. Sometimes, that's the best thing of all.
Mira Grant
#99. Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.
John Harvey-Jones
#100. There is no doubt that online shopping has fed the craze for speed, because when you can't touch the fabric or try on the outfit, the only emotion you experience is the excitement of the purchase and the thrill of beating everyone else to it.
Suzy Menkes