Tried Quotes

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

Person, Made, Mistake

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington

Confidence, Give, Before

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

Two, Before, Between

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

Made, Anyone, Mistake

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill

Everything, After, Else

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Abraham Lincoln

Life, Mind, Thought

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Abraham Lincoln

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln

Strong, Him, Anyone

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry

Failure, True, Defeat

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

Government, Democracy, Others

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn Monroe

Change, Strong, Two

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston Churchill

Wife, Together, Two

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Try, Again, Matter

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt

Hard, Succeed, Fail

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
Audrey Hepburn

Funny, Dance, Mad

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'.
John Lennon

Rock, Give, Another

Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.
Pope John XXIII

Dreams, Yourself, Possible

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, May, Strange

I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.
George Carlin

Work, Time, While

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Difficult, Found, Wanting

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.
Clint Eastwood

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson

Life, Universe, Sign

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West

Two, Before, Try

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West

Two, Between, Whenever

I tried marriage. I'm 0 for 3 with the marriage thing. So, being a ballplayer - I believe in numbers. I'm not going 0 for 4. I'm not wearing a golden sombrero.
Charlie Sheen

Marriage, Golden, Numbers

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
Frida Kahlo

Good, Feeling, Learned

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
Sophia Loren

Live, Past, Person

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.
Angelina Jolie

Happy, Live, Through

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.
Johnny Depp

Life, Time, Long

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
Ernest Hemingway

Time, Good, Best

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