Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try. —Lauren Dane in Giving Chase More about this quote Tags: life risk failure chances trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for. —Ruth Prawer Jhabvala More about this quote Tags: hope writing trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you don't try at anything, you can't fail. It takes back bone to lead the life you want. —Richard Yates in Revolutionary Road More about this quote Tags: life accomplishment risk failure achievement trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. —Samuel McChord Crothers More about this quote Tags: perfection imperfection failure labor work effort trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. —C. S. Lewis More about this quote Tags: success trouble trying stupidity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For no reason I can explain, I began to discover how little it mattered where you are or what anyone does to you. I was sure that what I had done to get there [imprisoned for draft resistance] was right, and somehow the longer I was there, the better I felt. . . . I felt filled with love for everyone: everyone I knew and everyone I didn't know; for plants, fish, animals; even bankers, generals, prison guards, and lying politicians — everything and everyone. Why did I feel so good? Was it God? Or approaching death? Or just the way life is supposed to be if we weren't so busy trying to make it something else? —David Dellinger More about this quote Tags: love God good death prison trying resistance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine. —Flip Wilson More about this quote Tags: winning effort trying taking a chance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's. —Lyndon B. Johnson More about this quote Tags: God help trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: desire trying Christian Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. —Edith Wharton More about this quote Tags: trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep trying anyway. We hope for the best. —Katherine Center in The Lost Husband More about this quote Tags: hope trouble tragedy trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I see someone who's trying very hard. I see someone who's nervous, but stronger than she knows. I see someone who's worried, but doesn't need to be. —Ruth Ware in The Lying Game More about this quote Tags: fear trying nervousness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email