Tried Quotes
Effort, fairness, and refusing to quit.
These quotes move between the legal sense of being fairly tried and the everyday sense of simply giving something a try, like body surfing. See Experience quotes for more on firsthand attempts.
Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.
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I'm the youngest of 12 children. And although I was the youngest, I tried to organize things in my family. When there were disputes, I tried to mediate.
When I was growing up, I remember having read all the books in the library. I often tried to emulate my favourite writers.
I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.
I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I could.
I used to pray to God that I wouldn't get breasts. Then in my teens, I tried to be quite feminine.
I competed with Yahoo for 15-1/2 years, and the one thing I tried to do over the years was desperately try to get a deal with them.
I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.
I had - like a cat with nine lives, I've had so many different careers and tried so many different things.
I have tried to maintain civil relationships with everyone I meet - and, even if I violently disagree with them, try to be respectful.
While Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is a brutal dictator and should be tried at the Hague for international war crimes, the United States should not militarily overthrow him.
We have tried to change regimes through a variety of means - over 80 times, by some estimates. Many of these efforts were counterproductive to U.S. interests.
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A closing line insists on never judging what hasn't actually been tried, and another rejects becoming a statistic after trying and falling short. Browse Persistence quotes or Effort quotes for related pages.
