Definition of Attempt

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Attempt

To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.

To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.

To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman.

To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.

To make an attempt; -- with upon.

A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort.

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Attempt Quotations

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Mohandas Gandhi

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mohandas Gandhi

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Robert H. Schuller

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller

Attempt Translations

attempt in Afrikaans is aanpak, probeer, poging
attempt in Dutch is streven, trachten, pogen, moeite doen
attempt in Finnish is koettaa, ponnistella
attempt in German is Versuch, versuchen
attempt in Italian is esperimentare, esperimento, attentato, operazione
attempt in Latin is inceptum, conor, rudimentum, tendo

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