Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wooden

I've never stopped trying to do what's right. I'm not doing it to earn favor with God. I'm doing it because it's the right thing to do.

John Wooden

Stay the course. When thwarted try again; harder; smarter. Persevere relentlessly.

John Wooden

We are all equal in that we can all strive to become the best we are capable of becoming. We can always improve but we shouldn't compare ourselves to others. We get in trouble when we start trying to measure up to someone else.

John Wooden

You should never try to be better than someone else, you should always be learning from others. But you should never cease trying to be the best you could be because that's under your control and the other isn't.

John Wooden

Every person under your supervision is different. They're all different. They're identical in most ways, but not in all ways. You have to study and analyze every individual under your supervision and try to work with them in a way that will be most productive.

John Wooden

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

John Ruskin

If the thing is impossible, you need not trouble yourselves about it; if possible, try for it.

Meg Cabot

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

Maxwell Maltz

Every day you must try to make yourself grow. This you can do.

Maya Angelou

Try to be all you can be to be the best human being you can be. Try to be that in your church, in your temple. Try to be that in your classroom. Do it because it is right to do.

Maya Angelou

I try to see every day as a celebration.

Max Cannon

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

Max Beckmann

My figures come and go, suggested by fortune or misfortune. I try to fix them divested of their apparent accidental quality.

Matthew Quick

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

Matthew Quick

I am trying to be kind instead of right.

Matthew Perry

If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.

Matthew McConaughey

Try not to make a straight line crooked.

Marilyn vos Savant

No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time.

Marilyn vos Savant

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.

Marilynne Robinson

I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.

Mary Engelbreit

I have been trying to get the hang of not being proud but instead turning that into thankfulness. Really whatever we have to be proud about, it is something given to us by the Lord.

Patricia Cornwell

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

Patricia Briggs

Trying is always enough.

Patricia Briggs

Don’t try threatening an Alpha. They don’t like it.

Pat Oliphant

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!

Plautus

We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

Philip Wylie

The businessmen have corrupted liberty by trying to propose it as a material quality.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I do want to direct, eventually. I don't know if it will be a short film or a music video or a feature, but I know that I want to at least try it and see.

Martin Parr

The easy bit is picking up a camera and pointing and shooting. But then you have to decide what it is you’re trying to say and express.

Martin Parr

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

Martin Scorsese

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I try not to plan that too much.

Philip Roth

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.