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«The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing»
«The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede»
Author: Eugene Herrigel | About: Learning, Trying | Keywords: arrow, obstinately, recede
«The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed»
Author: Lloyd Jones | About: Men, Trying | Keywords: infinitely, The Men
«The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.»
Author: William Strong | About: Failure, Trying
«The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.»
Author: Bette Midler (Actress, Singer) | About: Trying
«There'll come a time when all of us must leave here, then nothing sister Mary can do Will keep me here with you. As nothing in this life that I've been trying could equal or surpass the art of dying. Do you believe me?»
Author: George Harrison | About: Life, Trying | Keywords: Mary, Mary I, sister, sister Mary, surpass
«The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.»
Author: Dale Carnegie | About: Mistakes, Success, Trying | Keywords: profit, try again
«There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.»
«The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling»
Author: Orison Swett Marden | About: Trying | Keywords: appalling, occasioned
«There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.»
Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | About: Right, Trying | Keywords: duty, safe

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