Top 100 You Never Tried Quotes
#2. I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how do you know you're not the most talented oboe player ever? The point is that if you don't love it, then it doesn't matter.
Steven Soderbergh
#3. If you never tried you will never know. Anyway we are going to die why dont we try our best
Zoro
#4. Never be afraid of what happens when you step beyond the borders, Elijah. For you will never know if you have made the right choice or not. You will only feel regret if you never tried."
~Anastasia
Barbara C. Doyle
#5. Just take a risk. Go for it. I think if you crash and burn trying, it's still going to be better than if you never tried at all.
Roderick Mackinnon
#6. Most people simply didn't realize they could do things that bent their reality. It was kind of like growing up in a land with no deep rivers or lakes. If you never tried, how would you know if you could swim? But
Ilona Andrews
#7. If you never fail, that means you never tried to do something impossible.
Polly Whittaker
#8. 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
#9. You should know, I tried for many years not to be in love with you, but I failed. And I really did try very hard. But it was not possible, and it never has been, because I have actually loved you from very early in our relationship. Possibly as early as our first meeting.
Augusten Burroughs
#10. I never stopped loving you. There may have been times I tried to hate you, but even then, I never stopped loving you.
Penelope Ward
#11. Introduce me to someone who has never failed; I'll introduce you to someone who has never tried.
Anthony Labson
#12. When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?
McCoy Tyner
#13. Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.
Roy Blunt
#14. I tried to tell you that it's not Spade in there."
"You could have tried harder. I absolutely never needed to know that Ian was pierced down there.
Jeaniene Frost
#15. If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray.
Brad Renfro
#16. When your almost done trying for something that you have long tried,Give it another chance,you might never know if the opportunity strikes this time
Narjit Singh
#17. I know my Easts and Tom Brown, you see, and they're never happy unless their morality is being tried in the furnace and they can feel they are doing the right Christian thing and never mind the consequences to anyone else.
George MacDonald Fraser
#18. I knew then that no matter how hard you tried, no matter how many jars of honey you threw, no matter how much you thought you could leave your mother behind, she would never disappear from the tender places in you.
Sue Monk Kidd
#19. 9. Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction.
San Juan De La Cruz
#20. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
Steven Wright
#21. I've tried everything. I can say to you with confidence, I know a fair amount about LSD. I've never been a social user of any of these things, but my curiosity has carried me into a lot of interesting areas.
Dan Rather
#22. You once said you loved me. Do you still?"
My sister is watching this exchange between us. She smiles warmly at me, giving me the strength to tell him the truth. "I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you. I couldn't.
Simone Elkeles
#23. It had taken her a long time to realize that a prison sometimes isn't a prison at all. Sometimes, it's simply a door you assume is locked because you've never tried to open it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#24. He never got up high enough to see.
That's why I don't advise your trying this side.
He tried this side. I've always meant to go
And look myself, but you know how it is:
It doesn't seem so much to climb a mountain
You've worked around the foot of all your life.
Robert Frost
#25. You tried to hide between the lines of a story never told.
Lisa Loeb
#26. Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.
Guy Lafleur
#27. I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.
Cass McCombs
#28. I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.
Brittany Murphy
#29. In 'Changeling,' I tried to show something you'd never see nowadays - a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.
Clint Eastwood
#30. You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed; Try no other option; Just try again with a better approach!
Israelmore Ayivor
#31. I'm afraid of coaching, of writer's classes, of writer's magazines, of books on how to write. They give me centipede trouble - you know the yarn about the centipede who was asked how he managed all his feet? He tried to answer, stopped to think about it, and was never able to walk another step.
Robert A. Heinlein
#32. Again, I tried to glance away. He wasn't having that as his hold became firmer. "Never be embarrassed by my appreciation of you. Whether it's your physical beauty or your inner radiance, I don't ever want you to think I'm bullshitting you. Clear?" I
Lora Ann
#33. I have never tried to walk through a mall in the Christmas season dressed like a jolly old elf. You might as well dress up like a pork chop and walk into an alley full of starving dogs.
Thomm Quackenbush
#34. Have you ever tried to talk to a baby or a toddler? They never look you square in the eyes, they know about three words, and God forbid they ever ask you how you're doing. It's all about them!
Jen Kirkman
#35. Tom, had you and I been 40 days with Moses, and beheld the great God, and even if God himself had tried to tell us that three was one ... and one equals three, you and I would never have believed it. We would never fall victims to such lies.
John Adams
#36. A mother was thinking of how to keep her naughty child in line she tried using the boogey man it didn't work ... she thought and thought then said "the Politician is going to get you" and he was never naughty again
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#37. You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
George Bernard Shaw
#38. I've never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it's much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that's probably just because it's you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes.
Stephenie Meyer
#39. I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country ... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.
Edward Brooke
#40. One of those guys you just want to shove down and lick all over. Which I did, actually. He's nasty in bed, too, never tried some of that shit before. Pierced dick. I shit you not.
Joanna Wylde
#41. Cami, I could never hate you. Even if I wanted to. Trust me, I've tried.
Jamie McGuire
#42. You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.
Greg Maddux
#43. I've never had something - like, you know, drunk people have tried to do that to me, and I instantly shut it off. I say, don't to this, dude; you'll feel terrible about this later. It'll be - I'll bring it up all the time; I'll make fun of you. Just save yourself the embarrassment and don't do it.
Seth Rogen
#44. I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have a lot of critics, or it means that you haven't done anything. I never really bothered much and I don't care.
Benedetta Tagliabue
#45. If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.
Scott Adams
#46. So if you look back over the long history of China, they've never tried to take over the world, but they've been quite aggressive in their own neighborhood ... in carrying out their own purposes and interests in their sphere of the world.
Fred Thompson
#47. Now that that's settled, you're coming with me."
"Never in a billion suns. Not even if Zeus showed up as a swan and tried to peck me in your direction. I wouldn't go with you even if my other option was Hades dragging me to the Underworld for an eternal threesome with Persephone.
Amanda Bouchet
#48. You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.
Charles Stross
#49. I tried to think of what my father would tell me. 'Don't let any boy give you shit.' But he'd never said how we should go about preventing this.
Joyce Maynard
#50. But if you work and care and are watchful, as we have tried to be for you, then in the long run the worse will never, ever, triumph over the better.
Susan Cooper
#51. To be alive was to be disappointed. You tried and failed and kept on trying, never knowing whether you'd ever get what you wanted. But sometimes we get what we need.
Joan D. Vinge
#52. Yeah, Montague tried to do us during break," said George.
"What do you mean, 'tried'?" said Ron quickly.
"He never managed to get all the words out," said Fred, "due to the fact that we forced him headfirst into that Vanishing Cabinet on the first floor.
J.K. Rowling
#53. In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food ... they've never even tasted it!
Aasif Mandvi
#54. I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say "no", never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.
Bruce Bennett
#55. It's difficult to get an audience to want to keep up with you, stay present tense. But there's never been a big lag in my career between product. I've constantly tried to pull my audience up into what I'm doing present tense, and they've been usually happy to go there with me.
Kenny Loggins
#56. You've accepted who and what I am from the beginning. You've never tried to change me or ... or hide me. You've always trusted me, even when you probably shouldn't have.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#57. Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you
Unknown
#58. Whether or not you discover your talents and passions is partly a matter of opportunity. If you've never been sailing, or picked up an instrument, or tried to teach or to write fiction, how would you know if you had a talent for these things?
Ken Robinson
#59. I never understood why you tried so hard to fit in, when you were obviously meant to stand out.
Tonya Hurley
#60. I've found the things I've regretted most in my life are the things I wanted to do but never had the courage to try. And I'm beginning to think I don't want you to become one of my what-if-I'd-only-tried-it regrets.
Linda Kage
#61. You could stop taking their phone calls, tear up their letters, pretend they'd never existed. Start over as a new person with a new life. Just a problem of geography, he thought, with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.
Celeste Ng
#62. I've tried singing like somebody else, and it never worked for me. The only thing that has ever worked for me was me being me, so either you love it or not.
Tamar Braxton
#63. Yes, yes; you've read thousands of books but you've never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.
Bulleh Shah
#64. I'd have to say I'm pretty adventurous. I just went to Shanghai for the Special Olympics and I tried dim sum. I'd never really had it before and some of it looked pretty scary, but I tried it anyway. My philosophy is, you're not going to know if you like it until you try it.
Brenda Song
#65. I've never had apple pie," I blurted out.
...
"You've never had apple pie?"
"No."
His brows rose. "Why?"
"I don't know. Just never tried it."
"That's so ... so un-American," he said, and I rolled my eyes. "Are you a terrorist?
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#66. Buying a book you've never read is like buying a dress you've never tried on
Helene Hanff
#67. Like the fact that he's my twin brother and I know you'll eventually ask us to double-penetrate you."
I tried very hard to look shocked. "I don't even know what that means, Shane."
"And you're never going to find out.
Nick Pageant
#68. I say to you, you want a thrill, volunteer to be an umpire. I'd like you to go just work the bases some day. Just go do that. You're going to love it. Try the slow-pitch stuff. You'll love it. Ask my son - he tried it! He said, 'I've never seen so many idiots in all my life.'
Doug Harvey
#69. She tried to make her eyes seem tender; she did not know why, for no reason, for pleasure, the pleasure of charity, of a little vanity, and also gratuity, the pleasure of carving your name into a tree trunk for a passerby whom you will never see, the pleasure of throwing a bottle into the ocean.
Marcel Proust
#70. I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried ... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.
Michael Grant
#71. We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.
Zack Snyder
#72. He had also learned that there is no use murdering people; there are always so many left, and if you tried to murder them all you would never get anything else done.
Will Cuppy
#73. I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything. It'll find the person or persons who are supposed to do it.
Gregg Allman
#74. Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"
"They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.
Cassandra Clare
#75. We never lost that. As much as I tried, I
could never erase you from my heart. That's why I was such an asshole and kept guys away from you.
You were always mine.
Penelope Douglas
#76. And how unfair it would be to torture your heart in never feeling again, because of a feeling you haven't even tried to understand yet.
Nikki Rowe
#77. I've never been more sure of anything in my life than I am of the fact that I love you and I can't stop loving you. I tried. God knows I tried, because I didn't think you'd ever be able to let me love you like I wanted to. But I failed, and now I love you even more than I did before.
Catherine Gayle
#78. The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.
Erik Naggum
#79. People who tell you never to let little things bother you have never tried sleeping in a room with a mosquito.
Katherine Chandler
#80. I never stopped missing you. I never stopped needing you. There was a constant ache in my chest for you. I tried to convince myself it was anger, but it was love. And no one could fix it. You're the only one who can fix it.
Victoria Denault
#81. Anyone who says that writing for children or teens is easier than writing for adults has never tried it, because they are so much more critical than adults. You cannot get anything past them.
Margaret Stohl
#83. I embarked on a campaign of honey and kindness, which, if you've never tried it, is very hard to do with someone who thinks you are chickenhearted and has in the past called you a poxy sluggard. It is especially hard if every day you are plagued with fear about what might happen next.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#84. I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
Jack McBrayer
#85. My best advice is this - by the time you meet your Maker, and may it be a long, long time from now, I hope you can close your eyes on a life where you did your damn best and tried your damn hardest. It's not winning that's really winning. It's never giving up.
Robyn Carr
#86. If she'd known him better, she might've tried to explain to Will that life never lets you hide. Plant, animal, or human - life forced them all to grow and learn. The more you tried to run, the harder your path got, and you'd still have to travel it.
Cornelia Funke
#87. You, yourself, will never rest until you've tried!
J.K. Rowling
#88. It was like living in a new house. I saw the undersides of tables, walked through the tangle of chair legs. It would be good to be a dog, I thought. You would feel safe surrounded by all of these leggy objects that never tried to run away.
Augusten Burroughs
#89. Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. Faith is confidence in God before you see God emerging, therefore the nature of faith is that it must be tried.
Oswald Chambers
#90. Kissing you is.. I tried so had for so long to deny myself. I tried to do tho right thing. But ever since we kissed on your birthday I knew once i started I'd never be able.. even through we can't..
Jessica Shirvington
#91. My wife has helped me with a lot of things. She's also got me to like a lot of different things like sushi. I never would have tried that if it weren't for her. I also went to Hillsong (Church) in New York for the first time with her. It's fun to experience new things with the person you love.
Jrue Holiday
#92. Isn't it better to regret things you've done, than regret things you've never even tried?
Inio Asano
#93. Daemon stilled above me. 'I won't hurt you, Kat.' His tone was softer, but still laced with fury as he tried to control me without doing any real damage. 'I could never hurt you.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#94. If you've never tried, how will you ever know if there's any chance?
Jack Ma
#95. When I was in middle school, I tried to impress this girl by jumping over this ledge on a scooter. I caught the edge of the ledge and totally fell right in front of her. I never talked to her again. So [my advice is], take it easy if you have a school crush!
Kevin Jonas
#96. I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. maybe it had seen places you never had, been rerouted and passed through so many strange hands, but still somehow found its way back to you, all before the day even began.
Sarah Dessen
#97. Dad has been exhausted. Mom has never slowed down. You were in love, and I tried to talk you out of it. There's a word for what I am, but I'm too much of a lady to say it.
Kiera Cass
#98. You are quite beautiful, child. Perhaps you should beware of Perrin. I never see him but in the company of beautiful girls. Faile gave Perrin a flat, considering look, then tried to gloss it over quickly.
Robert Jordan
#99. I never starved. And you know, whatever talent I have, I've relied on that, versus image or star. I have just said, 'Hire me if you want somebody good.' I tried to be as good as I could be every time out, and that's kind of bridged the decades.
Jeff Daniels
#100. My mother wanted me to be a writer. But she was a child of the Depression and never understood that she wasn't poor. So, you know, the idea of not having a job, it would creep through. But she tried very hard to be subtle about it.
Richard Greenberg
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