No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas Jefferson

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama

By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Mark Twain

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan

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

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.
George Carlin

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
Bill Gates

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Walt Disney

I intend to live forever, or die trying.
Groucho Marx

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
Steven Wright

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
Will Rogers

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
Peter Drucker

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they're not trying to keep up with you.
Erma Bombeck

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Henry David Thoreau

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
W. Clement Stone