Trying Quotes

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. (Walter Bagehot)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I can accept the failure, but I can't accept not trying. View quote
Michael Jordan
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Really important goals are accomplished by people who will keep trying even when there seems to be no hope. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. View quote
Ben Hecht
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. (David Cronenberg)
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. View quote
Bill Cosby
There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. View quote
Edith Wharton
My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it. View quote
Rodney Dangerfield
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. View quote
Will Rogers
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. View quote
Pablo Picasso
All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. View quote
Toni Morrison
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. View quote
Mark Twain
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. View quote
Ian Fleming
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. (Jean Cocteau)
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. View quote
Larry Wall
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I intend to live forever, or die trying. View quote
Groucho Marx
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know? View quote
Charlie Sheen