Quotes about Attempt

It only shows how true the old saying is, that a man never knows what he can do till he tries, gentlemen. From "Pickwick Papers" ch. 49 page 646

IT is a very old saying that you never can tell what you can do until you try. The more I see of life the more I am convinced of the wisdom of that observation.

Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings.

A mistake is not a failure, but evidence that someone tried to do something.

The only failure is not to try.

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

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.

This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.

As no better man advances to take this matter in hand, I hereupon offer my own poor endeavors.

There is no excuse for not trying.

God commands us to make Him our absolute priority. Even attempting to place Him beside those other things we reverence most means dishonoring Him.

America has probably been the most successful experiment in history. The American Dream was a glorious attempt. It was built on a religious foundation. Its earliest concepts came from Holy Scripture.