Trying Quotes

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

We've been trying to sell out for years. Problem is that no one was buying.

To be true to myself, to be the person that was on the inside of me, and not play games. That's what I'm trying to do mostly in the whole world, is not bulls**t myself and not bulls**t anybody else.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

Should I just stop trying and give up? But then, that's exactly what they're waiting for me to do.

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us.

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

Well, I think the biggest mistake is not learning the habits of saving properly early. Because saving is a habit. And then, trying to get rich quick. It's pretty easy to get well-to-do slowly. But it's not easy to get rich quick.

If you're trying too hard to be the girl next door, you're not going to be.

The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you'll never forget someone if you're trying to forget them.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Describing her first day back in grade school after a long absence, a teacher said, It was like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at the same time.

As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him.

Saints are only sinners who keep trying.

My job is to make the whole executive team good enough to be successors, so that's what I try to do.

I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.