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Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)
Joy of life seems to me to arise from a sense of being where one belongs ... of being foursquare with the life we have chosen. All the discontented people I know are trying sedulously to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. (Quote by - David Grayson)
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it. (Quote by - Lee Iacocca)
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. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
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. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)
When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again. (Quote by - Michelle Kwan)
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. (Quote by - George Carlin)
Eventually I lost interest in trying to control my life, to make things happen in a way that I thought I wanted them to be. I began to practice surrendering to the universe and finding out what "it" wanted me to do. (Quote by - Shakti Gawain)
All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me. (Quote by - Tupac Shakur)
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them. (Quote by - William James)
To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches. (Quote by - Margaret Thatcher)
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time. (Quote by - Audrey Hepburn)
It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others. (Quote by - Shakti Gawain)
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. (Quote by - Shakti Gawain)
If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable. (Quote by - Donald Trump)
I don't know the rules of grammar... If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language they use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular. (Quote by - David Ogilvy)
You know, we're all going in the same direction, or at least trying to. So we need to live together, get along together, and give each other enough space to be comfortable on that road. (Quote by - Lillian Gideon)
I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. (Quote by - David Letterman)
Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship. (Quote by - William Glasser)
Man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? (Quote by - Robert Browning)
You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental. (Quote by - Richard Branson)
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. (Quote by - Michael Jordan)
All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do. (Quote by - David Grayson)
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems. (Quote by - Shelley Winters)
A continued atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own. (Quote by - Dorothy L. Sayers)
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. (Quote by - Hannah Whitall Smith)
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window. (Quote by - Peter Drucker)
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal. When few comforts come from without, it is all the more necessary to have a fount to draw on from within. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying. (Quote by - Diane Glancy)
Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. (Quote by - Thomas A. Edison)
These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet. (Quote by - Mel Brooks)
Trying to make the presidency work these days is like trying to sew buttons on a custard pie. (Quote by - James David Barber)
I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully. (Quote by - Jerry Garcia)
Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind. (Quote by - Timothy Fuller)
I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying. (Quote by - Tiger Woods)
The most beautiful thing is inevitability of events, and the most ugly thing is trying to resist inevitability. (Quote by - Katharine Butler Hathaway)
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better. (Quote by - Steve Jobs)
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. (Quote by - Barack Obama)
When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend. (Quote by - William Blake)
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair. (Quote by - Charles Lamb)
God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
All I was doing was trying to get home from work. (Quote by - Rosa Parks)
I intend to live forever, or die trying. (Quote by - Groucho Marx)
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. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
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. (Quote by - Mitch Hedberg)
Writers aren't exactly people, they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. (Quote by - Chuck Palahniuk)
To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean? (Quote by - Jimi Hendrix)
If you're not failing, you're not trying anything. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
Adolescence is when children start trying to bring up their parents. (Quote by - Richard Armour)
Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster. (Quote by - Curt Simmons)
First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress. (Quote by - Marilyn Monroe)
Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves. (Quote by - David Grayson)
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts. (Quote by - L. M. Montgomery)
I know some good marriages-marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other. (Quote by - Erica Jong)
We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge. (Quote by - Jack LaLanne)
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. (Quote by - Anne Frank)
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. (Quote by - Alan Watts)
Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self-discipline. (Quote by - W. L. Shirer)
Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force. (Quote by - Angela Merici)
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. (Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
A winner never stops trying. (Quote by - Tom Landry)
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences. (Quote by - Jim Morrison)
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment. (Quote by - John Locke)
The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is. (Quote by - Lenny Bruce)
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying. (Quote by - W. Clement Stone)
I can't concentrate on golf or bowling. Those bowling pins aren't going to hurt me. I can concentrate in the ring because someone is trying to kill me. (Quote by - Carmen Basilio)
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? (Quote by - Dave Barry)
It is weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. (Quote by - Joanna Field)
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men (Quote by - bring them softness, teach them how to cry. (Quote by - Joan Baez)
Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you. (Quote by - Saint Bartholomew)
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes. (Quote by - Cybil Shepherd)
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right. (Quote by - John K. Hutchens)
Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. (Quote by - Steven Wright)
I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. (Quote by - John Wayne)
I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do. (Quote by - Paul McCartney)
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. (Quote by - Bill Gates)
President Bush gave his first-ever presidential radio address in both English and Spanish. Reaction was mixed, however, as people were trying to figure out which one was which. (Quote by - Dennis Miller)
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. (Quote by - Ella Fitzgerald)
Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
There is no failure except in no longer trying. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it. (Quote by - Zora Neale Hurston)
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. (Quote by - Edith Wharton)
My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it. (Quote by - Rodney Dangerfield)
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. (Quote by - George Orwell)
I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it. (Quote by - Jimi Hendrix)
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the 'great' class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great. (Quote by - Harry S. Truman)
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. (Quote by - David Bly)
Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. (Quote by - Colin Powell)
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are trying to preserve the foundations on which peace may be rebuilt. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
The mode in which the inevitable comes to pass is through effort. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them. (Quote by - Henry Ford)
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. (Quote by - Frank Capra)
He says he's not broke, but he is trying to sell his kidney and corneas. (Quote by - Wendy Morgan)
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
You're never a loser until you quit trying. (Quote by - Mike Ditka)
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Great talkers are trying to fill the gap between themselves and others, but only widen it. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. (Quote by - Nadia Boulanger)
In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run. (Quote by - Abraham Lincoln)
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope. (Quote by - George Burns)
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter! (Quote by - Marion D. Hanks)
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)
Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. (Quote by - Voltaire)
People who concentrate on giving good service always get more personal satisfaction as well as better business. How can we get better service? One way is by trying to see ourselves as others do. (Quote by - Patricia Fripp)
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Photographers, along with dentists, are the two professions never satisfied with what they do. Every dentist would like to be a doctor and inside every photographer is a painter trying to get out. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
I was in a bar the other night, hopping from barstool to barstool, trying to get lucky, but there wasn't any gum under any of them. (Quote by - Emo Philips)
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Men do not fail, they stop trying. (Quote by - Elihu Root)
America's trying to do the best for its veterans. (Quote by - R. Lee Ermey)
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. (Quote by - Walt Disney)
I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. (Quote by - Jack London)
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss. (Quote by - Bono)
First there are those who are winners, and know they are winners. Then there are the losers who know they are losers. Then there are those who are not winners, but don't know it. They're the ones for me. They never quit trying. They're the soul of our game. (Quote by - Paul William)
There are no whole truths. All truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Everyone wants to understand painting. Why don't they try to understand the singing of birds? People love the night, a flower, everything that surrounds them without trying to understand them. But painting - that they must understand. (Quote by - Pablo Picasso)
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past. (Quote by - Norman Borlaug)
It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them. (Quote by - Joanna Field)
The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. (Quote by - W. Clement Stone)
