Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About attempt

You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

Never Your time Successful Wasting
  Favorite Make wallpaper

“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
  Favorite Make wallpaper

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Simple Attempt
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

Stuck River Dive Bank
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Book Written Attempt Understand
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I believe that Jesus realized his oneness with God and he showed, what he attempted to do was show the way to all of us, how to realize our own oneness with God also, so he's a precursor.

God Jesus Oneness Precursor. Realized
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one.

People Blunt Dealing Attempt
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion Social Intercourse Form
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In the midst of our failed attempts at loving Jesus, His grace covers us.

His Midst Our Failed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In reality, not one of us will ever be worthy. It is useless to attempt earning it; you'll never feel ready. It is unknown and uncomfortable. But there really is a God who forgives everything and loves endlessly.

Reality Worthy Useless Attempt
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

Achievement Arduous Attempt Difficult
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Achieve Answer Asking Attempting
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Young Enough Know Prudent
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Around Attempt Balloons Finding
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

Any Attempt Deal His
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

Attempt Blood Deep Description
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Attempt Believe Come Enigma
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Anything Attempt Courage Had
  Favorite Make wallpaper

People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

People Say Always Can't
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Attempt Could Fail Great
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Attempt Fail Great Nothing
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Almost Attempting Display Does
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Attempted Ever First Must
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When companies get together secretly to fix prices and attempt to eliminate competition, honest businessmen suffer. I think this is wrong.

Attempt Businessmen Companies Competition
  Favorite Make wallpaper

If the United Nations does not attempt to chart a course for the world's people in the first decades of the new millennium, who will?

Attempt Chart Course Decades
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Addictions Attempts Because Best
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Another Attempt Being Love
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
  Favorite Make wallpaper

There is dissatisfaction in all of us. Some of us take out that dissatisfaction by attempting to ruin whatever you are attempting to do. This is a fact of life.

Attempting Dissatisfaction Fact Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

History Party Hear Farm
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.

Attempted Done Earned Nights
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Attempted Begun Close Done
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Always Attempt End Enterprises
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

Allegory Any Attempt Conscious
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.

Actual Agreement Attempts Deserves
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Resistance Detest Reality Hegemony
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Always Attempting Business Disprove
  Favorite Make wallpaper

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

About Apt Attempt Else
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
Attempt Become Beware Fearful
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Be impermeable, smile, and laugh at their feeble attempt to put a chink in your armour.

Impermeable Smile Laugh Feeble
  Favorite Make wallpaper

For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.

Any Attempt Brutal Comprehensible
  Favorite Make wallpaper
It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of my early life.
Great Folly Makes Early
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Man Watches Pear Tree
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

Attempt Child First He
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.

Attempted Changes Effect Great
  Favorite Make wallpaper

As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally given people the worth of their money twice told.

General Duped World Attempted
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Only those who attempt the absurd...will achieve the impossible. I think ...I think it's in my basement...Let me go upstairs and check.

Attempt Absurd Achieve Impossible
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Attempt Doubts Fearing Good
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A young man was very excited to see his President at the Argungu fishing festival. He made to walk straight to him for a handshake. Security details prevented it. Now, opposite people are passing it off as an attempt to attack the President. How malicious can some people be!

Young Man President Festival
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Do not work self into a state of over-anxiety at the changes that will be found, or attempt to use up the strength and vitality ... Forget not the sources of thine inspiration ..

Work State Over-anxiety Use-up
  Favorite Make wallpaper