Quotes on Trying

Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.

I speak about universal evolution and teleological evolution, because I think the process of evolution reflects the wisdom of nature. I see the need for wisdom to become operative. We need to try to put all of these things together in what I call an evolutionary philosophy of our time.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life... It's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself.

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant.

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.

He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

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.

Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to live without it (the standard model)? Or to fall into her arms fire to fire? There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value. Inside the horror of Nagasaki and Hiroshima lies the beauty of Einstein's E=MC squared

We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet's corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.