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A collection of best trying quotes and sayings including trying your best and never giving up!

Inspiring Trying Quotes That Will Help You Rise And Try Again

Have you heard of any success story where triumph came in the very first attempt? Fact is that no great victories have been achieved without failures. Edison tried 10,000 times before he finally succeeded in creating the light bulb. Failure should never become the reason to simply call it quits. In fact, we should learn from our failed attempts, make another try and move ahead, who knows the moment when you said ‘I Quit’ was the last obstacle that you had to cross. Many celebrities, eminent thinkers and philosophers have shared their thoughts and success stories where they held on firmly and remained stubbornly persistent. Success surely comes to those who ‘try, try, try until they succeed’, and that is what their success mantra is. So whenever you are tempted to give up, just go through the following quotations and thoughts that will remind you about the formidable quality of winners, which is the power to cling on.

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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.

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
You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real,

You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers. "Real," I answer. "Because that's what you and I do, protect each other.

Suzanne Collins
You never fail until you stop trying.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Albert Einstein
The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.

Bette Midler
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Leo Tolstoy
Where is Wood?

Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there. "Still in the showers," said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.

J. K. Rowling
Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.

Kurt Vonnegut
The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

William Gibson
I look forward to trying the Internet.

I look forward to trying the Internet.

Aung San Suu Kyi

One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catching the street voices, the middle-class, upper-middle-class secret lives of Turks. The other side is interested in history and class and gender, trying to get all of society in a very realistic way.

Orhan Pamuk
You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.

You’re not leaving me here alone,” I say. Because if he dies, I’ll never go home, not really. I’ll spend the rest of my life in this arena, trying to think my way out.

Suzanne Collins
Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.

C. S. Lewis

'Snow' is my most popular book in the United States. But in Turkey, it was not as popular as 'My Name is Red,' or even 'The Museum of Innocence,' because the secular leaders didn't want this bourgeois Orhan trying to understand these head-scarf girls.

Orhan Pamuk
Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.

Lady Gaga
I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

Aung San Suu Kyi
There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

There's a chance that the old Peeta, the one who loves you, is still inside. Trying to get back to you. Don't give up on him.

Suzanne Collins
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Bob Marley
You have not failed until you quit trying.

You have not failed until you quit trying.

Gordon B. Hinckley
Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

Kurt Vonnegut
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Umberto Eco
I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.

Johnny Cash
'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

Steven Spielberg
You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.

You can always get better. Nobody can stop you from getting better, and nobody can stop you from trying to make something right.

Roseanne Barr
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that you are there, in everything I am, in everything I've ever done, and looking back, I know that I should have told you know much you've always meant to me.

Nicholas Sparks
Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

Just because you fall once, doesn't mean you're fall at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always trust yourself, because if you don't then who will??

Marilyn Monroe
And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

Lady Gaga
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

Joseph Conrad
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

Robert A. Heinlein
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton
Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.

Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.

Suzanne Collins
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

Charles Lamb
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Nelson Mandela
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday.

Jason Mraz
Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

Charles Bukowski
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

James Joyce
I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.

Plato
Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

Nick Hornby

I don't see why it should be remarkable that you can acquire a reputation for fairness and decency. Those are qualities shared by so many people. And the great majority of people I meet are decent people, just trying to navigate their way through the world without causing too much trouble.

Michael Palin
Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Most of the time I spend when I get up in the morning is trying to figure out what is going to happen.

Madeleine Albright
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 overcome while trying to succeed.

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 overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T. Washington
I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Jorge Luis Borges
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.

William Ralph Inge
I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

I want women -- and men -- to feel empowered by a deeper and more psychotic part of themselves. The part they're always trying desperately to hide. I want that to become something that they cherish.

Lady Gaga
So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

Haruki Murakami
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

Louisa May Alcott
And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she isn't trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.

Margaret Atwood
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

Barbara Kingsolver
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

Kurt Vonnegut
The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You're trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren't very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

Madeleine Albright
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

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

Michael Jordan
What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.

What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.

Elton John

Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow & develop as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied; if we fail, we are ridiculed & attacked. Sadly, this is how people are. Unexpected grief & suffering may lie ahead of you. But it is precisely when you encounter such trying times that you must not be defeated. NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER RETREAT!

Daisaku Ikeda

When I'm travelling, I always take my little notebook and scribble things down as I watch them; I'm very much geared to everything that's happening. Whereas, the diary I keep is just about a record of a day I've spent. When I'm filming, I'm looking quite intensely at everything I see and trying to get my own eye on what we're going through.

Michael Palin
I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work, and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

Hillary Clinton
I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

I just try to play more and more difficult roles.

Sir Michael Caine
JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court?

MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

JUDGE: Are you trying to show contempt for this court? MAE WEST: I was doin' my best to hide it.

Mae West

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Woody Guthrie
True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

Daisaku Ikeda
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.

Hunter S. Thompson
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Pablo Picasso
The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren't trying.

The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren't trying.

Sandra Bullock
Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

Life on earth is like college and we're all just trying to pass the courses.

Megan Fox
I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

I mean, I'm a big believer in talking to people when you can and trying to solve problems when you can.

Hillary Clinton
Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

Megan Fox
I just I felt like a freak, I guess what I'm trying to say is 
I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world

I just I felt like a freak, I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world

Lady Gaga
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi
It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.

Elton John
Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.

Tina Fey
We're reaching for death 
on the end of a candle 
We're trying for something 
that's already found us

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

Jim Morrison
I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

Sandra Bullock
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Mick Jagger
I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.

I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.

John Steinbeck
I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

I try to spend a little bit of time on my knees every day, but it all begins for me with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.

Mike Pence
I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.

I'm not trying to take Cate Blanchett down.

Megan Fox
I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

I'm not your expert on Africa or animals or whatever. I'm not a travel writer or maker of documentaries. I was someone who doesn't know very much, trying to communicate.

Michael Palin
I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

I try to devote my afternoons to making music in my home studio, but it's a lot more fun hanging out with musicians and friends, and trying subtly to influence a band than making your own stuff.

David Byrne
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?

Richard Dawkins
I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.

I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.

Natalie Portman

The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and I speak seven languages. I'm still trying to remember where I picked up the other two.

Zsa Zsa Gabor
When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

Megan Fox
Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

Try to figure out who you really are and not who you want other people to think you are.

Salma Hayek
I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

I'm just upset that we've been distracted by so much noise and vulgarity when we could be trying to talk about how our country can get stronger.

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

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

Tupac Shakur
For those of you who thought you'd be forgotten, The friends you've made will try their best, to make it so. Think of all the beauty that you left behind you. You can take it if you want it, and then let it go...

For those of you who thought you'd be forgotten, The friends you've made will try their best, to make it so. Think of all the beauty that you left behind you. You can take it if you want it, and then let it go...

Zooey Deschanel
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London
Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

Sandra Bullock
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.

Alice Walker
I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

Natalie Portman
Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence.

Marilyn Monroe
I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

David Foster Wallace
Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

Arthur Miller
The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

Robert Louis Stevenson
I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.

Albert Camus
You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.

Victoria Beckham
You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

You don't want your relationship to be in the press, but at the same time, and this is only a theory, the more you try and keep it secret, the more the media tries to crack it open.

Jennifer Lawrence
People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.

Steven Alexander Wright
I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

Cate Blanchett
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti