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I try to behave myself, and I succeed. -- Judith Martin
Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed. -- William Hung
I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding. -- Maggie Gyllenhaal
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. -- Robert Benchley
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do. -- Ruth Rendell
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. -- Francis Bacon
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds. -- Richard Jefferies
To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times. -- Michael Caine
I feel less adrenaline in my body now, but more in my head. I tried to be at my best, and I succeeded. -- Andriy Shevchenko
If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed. -- Michael Patrick Jann
And the truth is, those who are terrorists only have to succeed once, and those of us who are trying to build an inclusive society have to succeed every time. -- David Miliband
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded. -- Dale Turner
A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying. -- Lev Grossman
I want to stay in some era and remain there like a stupid idiot and see what happens when you try to pause time and not affect it. Not succeed. Not try to think ahead or think behind. -- Ariel Pink
I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives. -- Judy Collins
It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed. -- Harmon Killebrew
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 proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. -- Tom Hopkins
I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding. -- John Cleese
You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side. -- Beau Willimon
Failure to me became not trying versus not succeeding -- Sara Blakely
The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE! -- Craig Benzine

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