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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.
Steve Jobs

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
John Locke

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

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

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
Warren Buffett

I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
Jay-Z

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Walt Disney

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

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

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin

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

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.
Voltaire

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