Quotes about Attempt

Drinking has become one of the most serious social problems. It is basically the result of an attempt to escape from the responsibilities and realities of life.

I can appect failure, but I cannot accept not trying.

An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes.

With that we have articulated a basic criticism of the most grandiose of all human attempts to advance toward the divine-- by way of the church. Christianity conceals within itself a germ hostile to the church. It is far too easy for us to base our claims to God on our own Christian religiosity and our church commitment, and in so doing utterly to misunderstand and distort the Christian idea.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a great realist. He was one of the few who quickly understood, even before Hitler came to power, that National Socialism was a brutal attempt to make history without God and to found it on the strength of man alone.

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.

Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though.

To succeed even once you have to try at least once.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.