Trying Quotes

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

Work, Give, Through

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

Success, Failure, Everybody

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yourself, Greatest, Else

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

Failure, Everyone, Accept

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

Hope, Important, Kept

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.
Tupac Shakur

Good, Dirty, Gave

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Him, Away

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain

Mean, Adversity, Another

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
Douglas Adams

Design, Mistake, Common

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson

Put, Place, Duty

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Experience, Woman

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde

Great, Become, House

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
H. Stanley Judd

Failure, Challenge, Energy

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.
Margaret Thatcher

Socialism, Disease, British

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.
Johannes Brahms

Health, Jealousy, Bad

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

Hell, Here, Rules

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Person, Maybe, Prove

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.
Marilyn Monroe

Love, Good, Girl

Wearing a turtleneck is like being strangled by a really weak guy, all day. Wearing a backpack and a turtleneck is like a weak midget trying to bring you down.
Mitch Hedberg

Down, Guy, Weak

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

Art, Films, Confirm

I intend to live forever, or die trying.
Groucho Marx

Live, Die, Forever

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

Find, Sometimes, Easy

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.
Larry Flynt

Love, Friendship, True

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.
Michael Jordan

Enjoy, Problem, Seem

I like the challenge of trying different things and wondering whether it's going to work or whether I'm going to fall flat on my face.
Johnny Depp

Work, Different, Challenge

I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
Joan Jett

Peace, Nature, Time

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.
Eminem

Mind, Black, Friends

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau

Live, Living, Learn

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker T. Washington

Life, Success, Learned

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford

Time, Energy, Problems

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