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Quotes about Trying

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
- Octavia Butler
Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
- John 7:25
Our change is more about trusting and less about trying.
- Louie Giglio
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.
- Thomas Jefferson
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
- Alice Walker
There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.
- Roy Bennett
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
- Alice Walker
People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.
- Alice Walker
We spend so much time searching and longing for solid ground, only to discover it's better than that. There's Spirit. You try this, you try that. You throw yourself into it, and you hold it loosely. You give it everything you have as you acknowledge that this is what we're doing now, who knows what will come next?
- Rob Bell
There are always two risks. There's the risk of not trying something new, and there's the risk of not trying it. . . . Either way, there's risk. And sometimes stepping out and trying something new is actually the less risky thing to do.
- Rob Bell
I'm not a human interest story, man. I'm just a musician trying to make some small records and be happy, be peaceful.
- Mark Lanegan
It's all about patience and persistence - you often have to expose a child to a new food numerous times before he or she will begin to like it. So keep trying!
- Michelle Obama