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Trying

«We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.»
Author: Aldo Leopold (ecologist) | About: Achievement, Harmony, Trying | Keywords: aspirations
«Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.»
Author: Ben Hecht (Novelist, Playwright, Writer) | About: Trying | Keywords: newspapers, second hand
«Trying is a part of failing. If you are afraid to fail then you're afraid to try.»
Author: Evelyn Cunningham | About: Trying
«We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.»
Author: Jeff Greenwald | About: Trying | Keywords: figure, figure out
«Trying a case the second time is like eating yesterday morning's oatmeal.»
Author: Lloyd Paul Stryker | About: Trying | Keywords: oatmeal, second time
«Try and fail, but don't fail to try.»
«What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?»
Author: Vincent van Gogh (Painter) | About: Courage, Effort, Hope, Life, Trying | Keywords: attempt
«Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.»
«Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.»
Author: W. Clement Stone (Author, Founder) | About: Trying | Keywords: expert, followed, keep on
«Trying the way we do every time we look in a mirror to figure out exactly who that person is.»

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