Top 100 You Don't Try Quotes
#1. If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.
Bobby Darin
#2. A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.
Mark Twain
#3. Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.
Oprah Winfrey
#4. In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try to win.
Keith Johnstone
#5. If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.
Noam Chomsky
#6. You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash
#7. I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.
Mike Singletary
#8. Relax and give the play a chance to strut its stuff - relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about' - like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this Play isn't 'about,' it simply is. Don't try to enjoy it, let it try to enjoy you. Don't try to understand it, let it try to understand you.
E. E. Cummings
#10. There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.
Mario Puzo
#11. 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
#12. If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become.
Rumi
#13. Never run upstairs when someone's chasing you. Don't try to quick-draw a man who already has his gun out. Never light a match in the dark in a strange building. Half of staying safe is just keeping your head and being prudent.
Mark Zero
#14. 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
#15. You don't try and put rockets under prime ministers.
Andrew Forrest
#16. Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don't make ripples all around you, don't try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.
Etty Hillesum
#17. The key quality that anyone has to develop - a regular person as well as a warrior - is humility. If you don't try to develop humility, what you end up developing is pride, and that's destructive; it destroys yourself and it destroys the world around you.
Vladimir Vasiliev
#18. Styling is my form of painting. I can understand the process behind it, the being afraid to start, and the diving into it. I've learned not to be afraid of doing something that might not be right. If you don't try then you won't know.
Lori Goldstein
#19. If you don't try and force it, a song will find the proper moment to come to life.
Valerie Simpson
#20. If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.
Adam Anderson
#21. 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
#22. It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.
Joseph Joubert
#23. Don't try to hold people to you, don't try to push them away. Let life do everything for you. This is the proper attitude on the path of love.
Frederick Lenz
#24. When you don't have a future, you act different. You don't plan. You don't try. You just... exist
Sarah Fine
#25. If you try to win, you might lose, but if you don't try to win, you lose for sure!
Jens Voigt
#26. Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
D. A. Pennebaker
#27. Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.
J.M. Darhower
#28. You can't be criticized for what you don't try. You can't lose your balance if you never climb. Give it, Give it all, Give it NOW.
Milan Jed
#30. Hey, this is it - right now! - the time when you find out who you are and what you can do. And how will you ever know if you don't try new stuff?
Jerry Spinelli
#31. Gosh darn it," Gau said, "if you don't try, you'll never succeed." 10.
Malcolm Gladwell
#32. And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful in your own life?
Don DeLillo
#33. As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.
Navid Negahban
#34. I don't think there'll ever be a challenge in your life if you don't try out something because you're scared. I think you just need to do it without any thoughts.
Moon Jong-up
#35. The times you impress me the most are the times when you don't try.
Joni Mitchell
#36. You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.
Tom Waits
#37. Playing an icon [superman], you don't try to be an icon because that defeats the purpose. The responsibility attached is enormous, and the realization that it actually really, really matters meant that I wanted to put the most amount of work into representing the character properly.
Henry Cavill
#38. When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them.
Henry A. Kissinger
#39. Life isn't easy but if you don't try to improve it then it'll just get worse and worse till your no longer living.
Joe
#40. It's so important to have a hobby. A hobby is something creative that's just for you. You don't try to make money or get famous off it, you just do it because it makes you happy. A hobby is something that gives you but doesn't take.
Austin Kleon
#41. There's no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don't try to adapt it, make it commercial.
Clint Eastwood
#42. Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.
Fairfield Porter
#43. If you don't try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.
John C. Maxwell
#44. The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if ... ?
Maria Shriver
#45. You don't try to do more than you should.
Karl Malone
#46. Well, I'm already hoping there could be a dinner where you don't try to stab me with your fork," he said.
"You might need to make your peace with disappointment.
Rosamund Hodge
#47. When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.
Kevin Costner
#49. You're always trying to find new stuff and new inspiration. If you don't really push and you don't try something that feels exciting, then it's not worth doing.
Hamilton Leithauser
#50. A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.
Nick Woodman
#51. You limit your options every time you don't try your best.
Stacy London
#52. Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try.
Sheryl Sandberg
#53. Humans are mysterious creatures. There comes a time when we can clearly understand even things that we can't see. It's the same with anything. If you try your best, you can understand what it's like to "try your best". If you don't try your best, you understand what it's like to "not try your best".
Sakura Tsukuba
#54. The only time you've failed is if you don't try once more.
Fredrik Backman
#55. Allow the power to flow through you. Don't try to capture it. You wish only to borrow it.
G.G. Collins
#56. one of my core management beliefs: If you don't try to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead.
Ed Catmull
#57. You try your best, or you don't try your best. The mountains don't care.
Maria Semple
#58. [On the English climate:] People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
Katharine Whitehorn
#59. Look them... look this black hoodies... they are having fun... why you don't try also?
(Drugs are good for you..)
(Can you think!?)
- At least blink!
Deyth Banger
#60. I think one of the worst things schools have done is taken out all of the stuff like art, music, woodworking, sewing, cooking, welding, auto-shop. All these things you can turn into careers. How can you get interested in these careers if you don't try them on a little bit?
Temple Grandin
#61. As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.
Mary Margaret McBride
#62. If you try you might succeed. If you don't try you won't succeed. On motor bike racing it goes= if you fall off and get back up you might win. if you stay lying down you won't win. Keep trying
Warren Fox
#64. You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman!
Tyler Perry
#65. The next time someone says, 'The odds are against you,' remember: If you don't try, you forfeit the opportunity.
Frank Sonnenberg
#66. You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.
Rosalynn Carter
#67. It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
Wanda Jackson
#68. However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.
Andrew Wiles
#70. I realized that you don't try on a pair of pants, fart in them, and then put them back on the shelf, and the same rough politeness applied here, too. Plain and simple, I bled on it, I bought it.
Laurie Notaro
#71. Sometimes it is easier when you can't see your hands or your arms. Sometimes it's easier when you don't try. Because it's too hard to talk when you are trying . too hard to say what you feel inside.
Brian James
#72. You will last a lot longer, if you don't try to sing.
Kurt Vonnegut
#73. You don't try any less hard on the ones that don't. I've gotten lucky to work with some amazingly talented people that have helped the ones that have worked work. I think you just have to keep doing the stories you love and the characters that you love and are drawn to.
Channing Tatum
#74. One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.
Nancy Horan
#75. When you love someone, you don't try to change them.
Michelle Yeoh
#76. Have I turned into a motorized preacher? We spend so much time in cars that if you don't try to get some experiences out of it, you can go crazy.
Mick Jagger
#77. If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard.
Jesse Owens
#78. You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen to anybody else; I don't wanna be influenced.
Tim McGraw
#79. Sometimes, you just let the country have its way, and you don't try to determine the shape of the country. You sort of modestly step back and let the country figure out what it believes.
Mark Shields
#80. If the crookies don't crumble, you don't try other pastries
Bayode Ojo
#81. When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned.
Christine Caine
#82. If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
Orson Scott Card
#83. If you don't try at anything, you can't fail ... it takes back bone to lead the life you want
Richard Yates
#84. If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
Jesse Jackson
#85. For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.
Bobby Bonilla
#86. Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.
If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.
Ann Brashares
#87. If you don't try, you can't fail. If you do try, you might fail anyway. But better to have failed than never tried.
Chloe Thurlow
#88. All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#89. I can't figure you out. You're the first girl that's ever been disgusted with me before sex. You don't get all flustered when you talk to me, and you don't try to get my attention.
Jamie McGuire
#90. The question was how you ignored someone's request to be left alone - even if it meant jeopardizing the friendship. It was a wretched little koan: How can you help someone who won't be helped while realizing that if you don't try to help, then you're not being a friend at all?
Hanya Yanagihara
#91. 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.
#92. 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
#93. You don't want to continue to do one thing and only one thing. You want to keep challenging yourself and if you do well at it, great, if you fall on your face, you tried. Like, she's really terrible at comedy! Who knew? But if you didn't try and put yourself out there you'd never know.
Lucy Liu
#94. No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be."
"Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?"
"No."
"Then you didn't even get a taste.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#95. I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.
Ronald D. Moore
#96. Don't ever try to judge me dude. You don't know what the fuck I've been through
Eminem
#97. What you pretend to be is so complicated that I don't even bother to try to understand it.
Miguel Ruiz
#98. I don't spend a lot of time thinking of what they'll do musically, I try to imagine being locked into a windowless room with this person for twelve hours at a time. If you can look at that and think it might be fun then maybe you've got the right musician.
Leo Kottke
#99. If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.
Ingrid Weir
#100. Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work then try to trump it.
Walt Disney
