
The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose. —
C.S. Lewis

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like. —
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried. —
Henry David Thoreau

No two people ever view the world from exactly the same perspective, understand things the same way, human or not. The best we can ever do is try. —
Debra Driza

We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue. —
Anne Perry

Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on. —
Stephen Nachmanovitch

Let's try the library,' I tell him. 'We can find out anything there! —
David McPhail

What we can do, we will try to do. —
Mahatma Gandhi

What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity. —
David O. Russell

Maybe if I try hard enough, we'll fall into each other and become one single person and we can share our pain instead of carrying it by ourselves. —
Jessica Sorensen

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can. —
Olga Kurylenko

I love talking to spirits. Maybe
we can try contacting Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley next. —
Jody Morse

If there's even one thing we can do - even one life we can save - we have an obligation to try —
Barack Obama

We need a war every 10 years, so we can stay match fit in case the Germans try again. —
Al Murray

We can still try! There's no reason to expect a perfect last-minute solution from anyone else. We have to try. —
Anonymous

Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time? —
Rachel Cohn

Always be chasing the sun. All we can do, is try, and live like we're still alive. —
Sara Bareilles

Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it. —
Gerald R. Ford

We may not always see eye to eye, but
we can try to see heart to heart. —
Sam Levenson

I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try. —
Walter Mosley

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now. —
Ziggy Marley

All we can do is try, do our best. Give as much time as we have to give, one day at a time. One breath at a time —
Jasinda Wilder
We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough. —
Darin Strauss

We are born to a time. What you do with it is on you. Do the best you can. Try to be good. And live. —
Charlie LeDuff

They try to engage the world as much as they can and we will continue until they leave our land. —
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf

When faced with pain and evil, we have to make a choice.
We can choose to be taken by the evil.
Or
we can try to embrace the good. —
Elizabeth Smart

Depression isn't a bad word ... but it can destroy. We must have hope we can save many ... We must keep the faith that
we can try to help all! —
Timothy Pina

But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us —
Paulo Coelho

Grief has pushed us apart like repelling magnets: no matter how hard we try to reach each other, there's a gulf between us that we just can't bridge. —
Louise Jensen

Can we change the world? No, but hell, we can all try. —
Rupert Murdoch

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but
we can try. —
Mark Twain

You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do. —
Taylor Hanson

and I don't think we can do anything for him. It only makes him worse if you try to be nice to him. —
C.S. Lewis

Speak up, spread the word, take a pledge, take action ... we can all do something to try and end the abuse of bullying! —
Timothy Pina

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere. —
Russell Simmons

Our debts don't leave us much in terms of choices. We can choose to pay now or try to pay later. But the longer we wait the steeper the bill —
Ziad K. Abdelnour

You can't control what people gravitate to and what they don't. We can only control the work that we do and try to give it the best that we can. —
Donnie Wahlberg

We have to try to control what we can or else we cannot judge progress. —
Lionel Suggs

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return. —
Muhammad Ali

Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. —
Peter Elbow

My goal is to create a therapy of ideas, to try to bring in new ideas so that we can see the same old problems differently. —
James Hillman

We will try to honor David Letterman achievement by doing the best show we can.And occasionally making the network very mad at us. —
Stephen Colbert

Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are. —
Yoko Ono

We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians. —
George W. Bush

No one chooses the part they play. We can but tackle what the world throws at us and try to make it a better place. —
Gary Meehan

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there. —
Annie Dillard

We just try to go from day to day. Surprising where you can end up, that way. —
Lois McMaster Bujold

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy. —
David Heyman

People are not going to give up marriage. But
we can try to make it more fair.
We can try to change that institution and make it more equal. —
Jessica Valenti

We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, but frankly we won't if we're too afraid to try. —
Beth Moore

In my opinion, I think we have brief moments of great beauty and great pain, and as we journey we try to grasp one, so we can avoid the other. —
Brandon Shire

I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible. —
Nicholas Sparks

We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there. —
Auliq Ice

Was Christ a man like us?-Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he! —
Matthew Arnold

I guess it's a lot better to initiate change while you can than it is to try to react and adjust to it. Maybe we should move our own Cheese." "What —
Spencer Johnson

We can promise to try. —
Chris Colfer

Art can be close to the bone, but we are not our work. Try not to identify your core ego with your art. —
Kay WalkingStick

People are made up of so many small details. Some - like the smell of cookies baking - we can recreate. Or at least try. —
Victoria Schwab

How can we succeed, if we never try?
It is only by trying that we can reach greater heights. —
Lailah Gifty Akita

Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions. —
Paul Tsongas

For love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy." "I'll try, Beth." And —
Louisa May Alcott

I welcome the President and working with him to try to get some of that medical malpractice reform so we can get the cost of health care to come down. —
Ben Quayle

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit. —
Betty White

My concern is what fight we can give to the fans. My first concern as a boxer is to try hard and give a good fight for the fans. —
Manny Pacquiao

I try to think of anything that might help. But my mind isn't working. And all I can think is, we're going to die. My father's going to flipping win. —
Sarah Mussi

We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent. —
Alison Lurie

But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it. —
Neal Shusterman

If we cannot find models in our past, we must try to build a future where they can exist, and devil take anyone who tries to tell us we can't. —
Jordan L. Hawk

Geologists don't do that! We go out in the field and observe, and then
we can try to make a model with computerization; but it's not the first thing. —
Nils-Axel Morner

People do what they have to in this life. We try to get from one end of it to the other with dignity and with honor. We do the best we can. —
Cristina Henriquez

I'm not one about trying to slow things down. What I try to do is create an atmosphere for my family where we can pretty much have whatever. —
Jada Pinkett Smith

What I always say is that Japanese are like willow. We can be bent easily, but once you try to break us, it would not be so easy. —
Hiroko Sakai

We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it. —
Thurston Moore

I try with my pictures to raise a question, to provoke a debate, so that we can discuss problems together and come up with solutions. —
Sebastiao Salgado

Society is what we make of it, so we'd better try to make it the best we can. —
Dale Murphy

The mysteries of the female sex! We men can never hope to fathom your depths, but only try not to drown in them. —
Joyce Carol Oates