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Definition of Attempting

Attempting

  1. of Attempt

Attempting Quotations

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
Horace Mann

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin Coolidge

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Samuel Johnson

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill

Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
Salvador Dali
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Attempting Translations

attempting in French is attentant
attempting in German is versuchend

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