Quotes About Keep Trying

“In Europe, his contacts apologized and said there was nothing they could do. They would keep trying, but no one was listening. Rwanda had no oil or strategic interest, no diamonds or gold.”

— Naomi Benaron

“Because until you know what you want to be, other people are just going to keep trying to make you into something useful for them.”

— Kameron Hurley

“Here was a man who defied all odds, lived by himself, worked, created beautiful art. A complex mind stumped by some of the simplest tasks.
If he could, he would keep trying until there was only absolute failure or success.
How many people could say that?”

— Adrienne Wilder

“I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct porption to the number of times I can fail and keep trying.”

— Tom Hopkins

“Love isn't measured in chances, Landen. When you love someone, there isn't a limit. As long as you keep trying, I will keep loving you. I don't know if I could stop.”

— Caisey Quinn

“Someone told me that their child was diagnosed with ADHD. They wanted to know how I handle the day to day. It's hard on me but it's harder on them. I cry sometimes which means they probably do to. I worry that the world will never give them the chance they deserve but I am. I get frustrated when they are treated badly but they feel worse. I keep trying, I keep learning, and I keep telling their story. Just love your child and don't give up. They need you to be the person that understands.”

— Brenda Lochinger

“But if you keep trying to fix the past and plan your future, you will never live today.”

— Marilyn Grey

“Humans are the same. Like polishing a jewel, difficulties polish a person's character. The trials we are given are proportional to our strength. Otherwise we wouldn't be using our true power. And then we wouldn't be able to grow stronger. If a trial is equal to your strength, then it's okay if you come to an impasse. If you do end up at an impasse, then it just means you're trying to move forward and you want to win. That's why you have to keep trying.”

— Kae Maruya

“Hang in there, Kirito. Keep trying, for the sake of what you believe in. I'll always be at your side. I'll always be behind you, watching your back and supporting you.”

— Reki Kawahara

“If the people of Old Earth, our ancestors and their descendants today who remain, could keep building, could keep trying, how can we do less? We are their children, and while we bought to the stars with us all the faults and the problems and the flaws of the past, we also bought the good things, the determination, and the willingness to help others, and the imagination to build things greater then every shortcoming humanity has ever known.”

— Jack Campbell

“Progress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don't have to be re-invented in order to keep getting better; innovations expand what they already do. Knowledge accumulates, so it can increase. Scientists and engineers know this, but artists, authors, and philosophers keep trying to start over from ground zero in the humanities. Thus, they don't really progress-they become primitive.”

— Gene Edward Veith Jr.

“We live in a world that is beyond our control, and life is in a constant flux of change. So we have a decision to make: keep trying to control a storm that is not going to go away or start learning how to live within the rain.”

— Glenn Pemberton

“[Life]It is what you make it. If you think you can't change the world, then go on and follow the path already carved out for you. But there are other roads to choose, they're just harder to trudge through. Changing the world is'nt easy, but I sure as hell am going to keep trying. Are you?”

— Simone Elkeles

“Keep trying until you find Mr.Right. Perhaps you have to think it through before you even look for Mr. Maybe.”

— Mark Mason

“Keep trying again”

— Sasha Maurtitus

“All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts.”

— Lloyd Alexander

“Their relationship isn't perfect in a lot of ways, bit it's something real. And real should probably be the goal, not perfection. Every relationship is flawed; you just have to figure out how to make it work. Keep trying.”

— Lindsey Leavitt

“Mom: It's like buying shirts, Lincoln. When you go shopping for shirts, you don't buy the first shirt you try on. Even if you like it. you keep looking, you keep trying things on. You make sure you find the shirt that fits you best.
Lincoln: But Mom, what if the first shirt is the best shirt? And what if it's gone by the time I'm done shopping? What if I never find a shirt like that again?”

— Rainbow Rowell

“Do you think," Maxon asked, "that I could still call you 'my dear'?"
"Not a chance," I whispered.
"I'll keep trying. I don't have it in me to give up." And I believed him. It was annoying to think he'd press that issue.
"Did you call all of them that?" I nodded my head toward the rest of the room.
"Yes, and they all seemed to like it."
"That is the exact reason why I don't.”

— Kiera Cass

“Keep trying. You only fail if you quit."
"That's right," Bas said. "When you fall off the horse, you need to just saddle it back up."
I looked at him. "What if the saddle didn't fall off? What if only you fell?"
"Speaking of horses," Jode said.
"No horses. Go again."
Another hour went by. Bas and I started to get punchy.
"Go to the light, Jode," Bas said. "Your most precious inside light."
"Just feeeeeeel it. Feel it like you mean it."
Jode smirked. "I'm English. I don't do anything by feeeel.”

— Veronica Rossi

“I was trying to be a better man, Perry. For you." I shifted in my seat. "Dex ... " "And I'll keep trying," he quickly said, voice low and somber. "Until I get it right.”

— Karina Halle

“The times are chaotic. For me, I would hope that people look at [Angel] and gain strength by it. With everything that I do, I hope that they see people struggling to live decent, moral lives in a completely chaotic world. They see how hard it is, how often they fail, and how they get up and keep trying. That, to me, is the most important message I'm ever going to tell.”

— Joss Whedon

“They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it won't work. She was an original.”

— Billy Wilder

“Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.”

— Brian McDermott

“I don't know what it takes to make marriage work, but I'm going to keep trying until I get it right. I haven't given up on love or marriage.”

— Stephanie Mills

“You are only one boy, with one voice ... If you keep trying to be a choir, you'll lose that voice, and then who will hear you?”

— Neal Shusterman

“It was curious that so avowedly godless a person should keep trying to write about faith.”

— Salman Rushdie

“Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.”

— Mary Browne

“I'd like to encourage people to please keep reading-and most importantly, to please keep trying new writers. The only way we can bring fresh new material into the field is if people go out and buy it.”

— Terri Windling

“I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.”

— Vince Vaughn

“If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the impulse to rebel. We're obliged to keep trying to convey meaning through correct sentences. After a while, the good-soldier rigidity of polished prose can begin to seem dull, and it gets harder to resist the temptation of nonsense.”

— Joanna Scott

“If the bottom dropped out of the market and the artist was not going to sell anything, he or she will keep working, and the dealer will keep trying to find some way to convince somebody to buy this stuff.”

— Chuck Close

“Better to keep trying until you find something that makes you happy rather than choose something now and hate your job for the next twenty years”

— Susan Mallery

“We just keep trying to beat every show with the funny stick until it's funny”

— Dan Povenmire

“I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.”

— Ellen Swallow Richards

“With a defeat, when you lose, you get up, you make it better, you try again. That's what I do in life, when I get down, when I get sick, I don't want to just stop. I keep going and I try to do more. Everyone always says never give up but you really have to take that to heart and really do never definitely give up. Keep trying.”

— Serena Williams

“In my office ... I have a little sign and it says, 'Do it!' I suppose if I have learned anything in life, it is that we are to keep moving, keep trying-as long as we breathe! If we do, we will be surprised at how much more can still be done.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

“I keep trying to find ways to shift the viewer's attention away from the object they are looking at and toward their own perceptual process in relation to that object. The question for me always is: how can I make you aware of your own activity of looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at?”

— Uta Barth

“When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.”

— William Cranch Bond

“The best climbers have the will to hold on. They won't give up and keep trying over and over.”

— Chris Sharma

“Who is the best the sportswriter who wore shorts? I keep trying to envision Grantland Rice or John Lardner in shorts. It never occurred to me to wear shorts. I'd look too silly to wear shorts.”

— Dan Jenkins

“Keep on shining, keep on smiling, don't lose faith, and don't lose heart. When you're crying, just keep trying to remind yourself, you're a shining star, yes you are.”

— LeAnn Rimes

“I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.”

— Debbi Fields

“All I got to do is keep getting the most out of each one of my days and keep trying to be the best athlete I can become.”

— Derrick Rose

“Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying to be amusing.”

— E. M. Forster

“We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.”

— Fred Rogers

“Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.”

— Gabrielle Zevin

“It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying”

— John Wooden

“Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.”

— Ken Kesey