Top 14 You Have To Try Quotes
#1. You have to try to reply to criticism with your intellect, not your ego.
Mike Brearley
#2. You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.
Cillian Murphy
#3. You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go.
Tina Fey
#4. You have to try to build support around causes. It is uniting to campaign on a single issue, and it is never just a single issue; it's always more than that.
Tony Benn
#5. It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.
Gavin Bryars
#6. We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want ... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.
Krishna Das
#7. I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it, or you will never know what's beyond it.
Scott Cohen
#8. Sometimes, impossible just means you have to try harder. -Kara
S.M. Boyce
#9. One of the reasons for putting yourself on the line, is that life is not simply treading water ... I always felt that once you reach a certain point, you have to try and move ahead.
Dick Button
#10. You have to try to push yourself to the limit. You can't worry about making a mistake. If you worry about it, you'll lose.
Jean-Sebastien Giguere
#11. I went through in the edits and cut tons of stuff that was "funny" because if it wasn't funny at the time, so it shouldn't be funny now. It's about having that unity of experience. You have to try and take away your hindsight knowledge of a situation.
Damian Barr
#12. At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.
Paul Feig
#13. When you're in front of the camera, you have to try to create different emotions because even the person making pictures of you needs inspiration. To be 'you' means nothing - you can be so many yous.
Monica Bellucci
#15. It's not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.
Owen Wilson
#16. As an atheist you have to rationalize things ... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared
but that's okay!
Billy Joel
#17. I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.
Anthony Shadid
#18. You have to try the impossible to achieve the possible
Hermann Hesse
#19. Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.
Natalie Du Toit
#20. Every different social group that I encountered had its different set of rules, so you learn very quickly how to pick up the nuances and change yourself accordingly. When you are not from anywhere, you have to try to find what's universal. You are always trying to fit in.
Julianne Moore
#21. Mamma said that when you don't love someone one bit, you have to try to see them like Jesus would. It's a hard thing to do. Even Mamma has to squint sometimes.
Martha Finley
#22. Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.
Art Linkletter
#23. You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.
Kevin Costner
#24. I think it's the next thing, getting out of the comfort-zone readership, that at some point you have to try and break out of that and see if you can go in new directions. I wanted to do something that felt a lot bigger than a book that's going to sit on a toilet.
Drew Magary
#25. If you are losing power in your relationships, with others, then you have to try and remedy that, if you can't, you need to sever the relationship.
Frederick Lenz
#26. 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
#27. When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.
Andy Murray
#28. Friendship is all about trust and sharing. Passionate and romantic love is all about sex and emotions. You have to try to combine those, I think. The great marriages, the great couples I know, have both.
Isabel Allende
#29. The capability of negotiating ... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
Madeleine Albright
#30. The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.
John McEnroe
#31. I don't see people who are eager for shutdowns. While some people have a romantic ideal about shutdowns, the vast majority of Republicans and Democrats believe you have to try to work problems out rather than having a shutdown.
James Lankford
#32. You don't have to be perfect, but you have to try hard. And I did all the time.
Elena Dementieva
#33. I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece.
Robert Nozick
#34. You're not going to stay in business, the business of making movies very long because you need the resources in order to keep going. So you have to try and find a niche audience or some kind of audience that has the same likes, dislikes and aesthetic sensibilities that you have.
George Lucas
#35. If you pursue the truth far enough you always wind up in the land of paradox. You reach a point where the apparent truth divides into two opposing truths and then you have to try to reach beyond them to grasp the ultimate truth, their synthesis.
Susan Howatch
#36. I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
Louis C.K.
#37. I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
Rachael Ray
#38. You have to try to imagine an ideal reader, who's neither stupid nor able to know what your thoughts are.
John Ashbery
#39. It's okay to be scared, and it's okay to fail. But you have to try. Not trying isn't an option.
Jessica Bendinger
#40. Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I'm not dismissing that by any regard.
John Ridley
#41. -It's hard to explain, Adders. But I just...I don't feel that way about him. I've tried really hard...believe me I have.
-That's the thing though, if you have to try really hard then it's not meant to be. You shouldn't have to try to love someone. You either do or you don't.
Lisa J. Hobman
#42. Dude, if you want to be a great musician, you have to try heroin. You'll see. It's like being back in the womb.
Dave Mustaine
#43. Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.
Jose Mourinho
#44. I lived in several hotels, yeah. You have to try to make it home.
Matt Bomer
#45. As society changes, laws have to change to protect citizens along the way. Sometimes you have to try new and different and creative ways to solve problems. You have to take some risks.
John Rowland
#46. I know how hard it is to let go of hate, but you have to try. It only leads to more suffering.
R. Scott Boyer
#47. Going out on the field frantic isn't going to help you score points. You have to try to lead your team.
Colin Kaepernick
#48. You have to try your best to have peace of mind, and whatever happens you know you did your best
Demian Maia
#49. What all my years in improvisation taught is that - if you're going to grow as a performer - you have to try some new things. You've got to be willing to take a few risks.
Jack McBrayer
#50. It's not enough to shelve your own competitive streak. You have to try, consciously, to help others succeed.
Chris Hadfield
#52. Hard rain falls in every season. Sometimes it can beat you down; you have to try to learn how to take sustenance from it to grow.
Regina Taylor
#53. Sometimes ... you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.
Jacqueline Woodson
#54. No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.
Mae West
#55. If you choose the sort of life which has no conventional pattern you have to try to make an art of it, or it is a mess.
Muriel Spark
#56. Being a new character is like going to a new school. You have to try to maintain your own autonomy and your own personality.
Mia Maestro
#57. I think that you try to raise the bar on whatever you do because you know, in this day of having to deal with a lot of reality TV, people say that scripted programming is dying, so you have to try to create something that can live in people's minds, long after they see it.
Kevin Costner
#58. The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#59. To become original, you have to try something new, which means accepting some measure of risk.
Adam M. Grant
#60. Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.
Lleyton Hewitt
#61. Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].
Atom Egoyan
#62. The times when you want to cry are when you have to try your hardest. That's why I decided I'll cry in general. Then, when I have to shed tears for a time when I really want to cry, my tears would have run dry
Jacuzzi Splot - Baccano
#63. Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.
Joseph Campbell
#64. 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
#65. Things are going to happen that you can't control. You can't let it bother you. You have to try your best.
Laurence Yep
#66. When I was small your grandmother used to say that if you become a police officer, you can't choose who to protect. You have to try to protect everyone.
Fredrik Backman
#67. There is no right way to go on an edible journey. You can never tell what is going to be great, so you have to try everything. If you become doctrinaire about sticking to lowbrow foods or epicurean delights, your just being an extremist, and it won't do you any good.
Adam Richman
#69. I think about what Devon would say. You have to Work At It Dad. You have to try even if it's hard and you think you can never do it and you just want to scream and hide and shake your hands over and over and over.
Kathryn Erskine
#70. Playing music is a lifetime's work. And if you want to carry on with it, you have to try to better yourself. You have to see where the music can take you.
Paul Weller
#72. If you see swarms of guys coming around you, you have to try and avoid being stuck on the kerb.
Michael East
#73. When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
Fred Astaire
#74. Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.
Cary Fukunaga
#75. You talk about your feelings. It's annoying and frustrating [...] But that's the point. You have to try. Because if you don't bother trying, then what's the point in being in a relationship?
Jenn P. Nguyen
#76. You have to realize that the game is played by people and not by robots. You have to try to get across in the broadcast the difference in personalities of these players, and that's part of the fun, of course, being in a position where you can pass along that knowledge because you represent the fan.
Martin Tyler
#77. You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
Abigail Washburn
#78. There are always regrets, of course. But you have to try and make a difference without hurting anyone along the way, so that you can reach a final state of grace without shame.
Christopher Fowler
#79. I would be open about the fact that, clearly, politicians should be able to speak to each other. David Cameron doesn't seem to accept this, but if the British people have voted then of course you have to try and provide good stable government.
Nick Clegg
#80. I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.
Craig Ferguson
#81. To make the journey without falling deeply in love, you haven't lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven't tried, then you haven't lived
William Parrish
#82. Life comes with problems, you have to accept that. And you have to try to lead the simple life; to not constantly ask questions about the whys and the wherefores of everything.
Elizabeth Berg
#83. Sometimes there are four or five cameras in front of your face moving all over the place, and you have to try to see the person in between the cameras, and a sane person would go, "I can't do this."
Courtney B. Vance
#84. Freud kept himself amused while waiting for God by inhaling glue that was gummed up inside a plastic bag. In mid huff, God rushed through the door, "Oh my God, you have to try this," Freud giggled. "I'm so baked. And dizzy. Actually, I don't feel good at all.
Dylan Callens
#85. You may not know what the outcome will be, but you have to try to give yourself a future, no matter how long it takes. You have to hold on to hope.
Peter W. Smorynski
#86. You have to close quickly, you have to eliminate time and space and you have to try to deny them the puck. When you're playing with it, it forces them out of their rhythm and forces them to play defense, which they obviously don't want to do.
Chris Pronger
#88. If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.
Edward Lampert
#89. Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.
Gennifer Choldenko
#90. I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#91. If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.
Kevin Smith
#92. It's important for people not to feel like doing things that are immature, stuff you have to try out when you're a teenager, is bad, per se. Demonizing it is one of the reasons it becomes such an issue.
Grimes
#93. My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.
Tavi Gevinson
#94. If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.
Don Meyer
#95. But it wasn't even close to perfect if you can't trust it to stand up on its own merit. Not if you have to try and control it and play games to try and shape it to your will. This doesn't save it, it destroys it. And it certainly does not protect or save you.
Jacquelyn Frank
#96. Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.
Karen Marie Moning
#97. When you are small, and you have to try and prove yourself, it is tough. When others are catching up and copy you, that's tough. We constantly need to change ourselves to stay ahead of the game.
Jochen Zeitz
#98. Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.
Andy Van Slyke
#99. My aim as a frontman is always to try and shrink the venue, if you can, to turn that football stadium into the world's smallest club. At least you have to try.
Bruce Dickinson
#100. I have learned to consciously avoid letting that thought, It's been done, enter my creative process. You have to try not to edit yourself before you actually shoot.
Todd Hido
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