Trying So Hard Quotes:

You can't blend in when you were born to stand out.

- R. J. Palacio

source: "Fictional character: Via". "Wonder", www.imdb.com. 2017.

topic: Standing Out, Born, Trying To Fit In, Inspirational Children, Kids Inspirational

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friendship, Trying To Fit In, Just Being You

I think we spend a lot of time denying our mothers. We understand other women earlier than we understand our mothers because we're trying so hard to say, "I'm not going to be like my mother" that we blame her for her condition. If we didn't blame her for her condition, we would have to admit that it could happen to us, too. I spent a long time doing that, thinking that my mother's problems were uniquely her fault.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Mother, Thinking, Long, Trying So Hard

I’ve been trying so hard not to think his name, not to even breathe the idea of him

- Lauren Oliver

topic: Thinking, Names, Ideas, Trying So Hard

Your big picture will never be a masterpiece if you ignore the tiny brushstrokes. You're trying so hard to be successful that true success is eluding you.

- Andy Andrews

topic: Successful, Trying, Tiny, Big Picture, True Success

I didnt start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sudden I was like, wait a minute. I was trying so hard to be what I thought I was supposed to be, instead of just allowing myself to be what I-what I was or what I am.

- Meg Tilly

topic: Waiting, Trying, Making Changes, Trying So Hard

I am trying so hard to live in the moment and enjoy it while it's happening, because it feels like a moving freight train that I just got on, and I'm trying not to look back and get dizzy!

- Laura Bell Bundy

topic: Moving, Live In The Moment, Trying, Trying So Hard

I lacked some essential skill for attracting people, for giving and receiving love easily. It meant too much to me. I seemed to be driving away the people I most wanted. Finally I had realized that getting someone to love you was like trying to coax a bird to perch on your finger . . . it wouldn't happen unless you stopped trying so hard.

- Lisa Kleypas

source: Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.11, St. Martin's Press

topic: Love You, Receiving Love, Skills, Most Wanted, Driving Away

You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to buy more stuff?

- Douglas Coupland

topic: Morning, Mean, Growth, Running Shoes, Trying So Hard

Hope and faith. You have to have hope and faith... Long ways to go. Grateful to survive. I's frustrating. Mentally hard. Hard work. I'm trying. Trying so hard to get better. Regain what I've lost... I will get stronger. I will return.

- Gabrielle Giffords

source: "Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope". Book by Gabrielle Giffords and Mark Kelly, November 15, 2011.

topic: Grateful, Hard Work, Long, Long Way To Go, Trying So Hard

The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.

- Clayton Christensen

topic: Jesus, Father, Son, Deep Happiness, Trying Hard

The temptation many creative people I know have is to strive for popularity. To make, do, and say things that other people like in the hopes of pleasing them. This motivation is nice. And sometimes the end result is good. But often what happens in trying so hard to please other people, especially many other people, the result is mediocre.

- Scott Berkun

topic: Motivation, Nice, People, End Results, Trying So Hard

If I win, it's because of my natural ability and if I lose, it's because I wasn't trying so hard.

- Kelly Ripa

topic: Winning, Trying, Natural, Trying So Hard, Natural Ability

If only media people would stop reaching for the low-hanging fruit, which is cynicism and pessimism, and stopped trying so hard to be hip and cool and have a swagger.

- Emilio Estevez

topic: Media, People, Trying, Trying So Hard

You guys (Boko Haram) are trying so hard to convince everybody that you're such badasses. But all you've done with this kidnapping is highlight who the real badasses are, the kids you kidnapped. Compared to a teenager who knows that her desire for an education could get her dragged into a snake infested jungle to be sold as a bribe to some demented, stick-chewing cartoon villain but still gets up and goes to class everyday, fully aware of that danger - compared to their courage - I'd say Boko Haram is a bunch of little girls. But, you know what? You don't deserve that compliment.

- Jon Stewart

topic: Girl, Badass, Teenager, Kidnapped, Boko Haram

I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.

- Mike Tyson

source: "Mike Tyson interview: The iron man melts" by Ivan Solotaroff, www.theguardian.com. December 4, 2010.

topic: Humble, Mean, Humility, Trying So Hard

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up,

- Lori Gottlieb

topic: Growing Up, Kids, Childhood, Happy Childhood, Trying So Hard

I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with, or spilled food all over myself. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

- Prince Royce

source: Source: www.seventeen.com

topic: Girl, School, Class, Clumsy, Trying So Hard

The essential thing about mothers is that one needs to know that they are there, particularly at that age when, paradoxically, one is trying so hard to break away from parental influence.

- Margot Fonteyn

topic: Mother Daughter, Age, Trying, Parental Influence, Trying So Hard

No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.

- Colum McCann

topic: Loneliness, Trying, World, Trying So Hard

I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.

- James Patterson

source: "Angel: A Maximum Ride Novel". Book by James Patterson, February 14, 2011.

topic: Selfish, Hero, Giving, Trying So Hard, Maximum Ride

There’s a writer for you,” he said. “Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an answer—still it belittled him in my eyes. Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It’s like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean backward trying—only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Eye, Mirrors, People, Great Writing, Chandeliers

I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Sexy, Witty, Party, Trying So Hard

Mental illness is a very powerful thing. If it is with you it is probably going to be there until the day you die. I am trying so hard to break mine, but it is not easy. It is my toughest fight ever.

- Frank Bruno

topic: Powerful, Fighting, Bipolar, Trying So Hard

We should clap or something." Curran said. "She's trying so hard.

- Ilona Andrews

topic: Trying, Should, Said, Trying So Hard

Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.

- Jack Gantos

source: Jack Gantos (2002). “Hole in My Life”, p.61, Macmillan

topic: Dog, Book, Writing, Good Dog, Trying So Hard

people were just out of control! . . . They've all got cell phones stuck to their ears and yet I've never seen such distance between people trying so hard to be close.

- Karen Marie Moning

source: Karen Marie Moning (2012). “The Highlander Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.161, Dell

topic: Distance, Phones, Cells, Cell Phone, Trying So Hard

You know what I mean. I'm telling you I was stupid over it. I thought it was about trying so hard to survive that you didn't have the time to be a good parent. Obviously, that's not it. Because you and I, we're both...wealthy in love.

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Stupid, Mean, Parent, Trying So Hard, I Was Stupid

You drive me insane June. You're the scariest, most clever, bravest person I know, and sometimes I can't catch my breath because I'm trying so hard to keep up. There will never be another like you. You realize that, don't you? Billions of people will come and go in this world, but there will never be another like you.

- Marie Lu

topic: Clever, June, People, Most Clever, Trying So Hard

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

- Daniel Clowes

source: Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. March 30, 2012.

topic: Struggle, Fall, Drawing, Early Work, Trying So Hard

I'm really just tryna bring it home for my city, I'm trying so hard to be the best I can be on every record I do, every feature I do and every different city I go to.

- SonReal

topic: Home, Cities, Trying, Trying So Hard

I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible.

- Will Smith

source: Biography/Personal quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Air, Talking, Trying, Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, Fresh Prince

People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie?

- Andy Kindler

topic: Pie, People, Giving, Trying So Hard

why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out

- Oliver James

topic: Inspirational, Life, Individuality, Trying To Fit In, Trying Too Hard

Know that God has a plan for your life. Turn your life over to him every day. Stop looking outside yourself for validation and approval-you're letting other people define your happiness. Instead of trying so hard to manipulate life, take care of yourself on the inside. Then all those other attributes you're so desperately seeking will find you eventually.

- Trisha

topic: Validation, People, Trying, Trying So Hard

I know what the intimidation level of high school is. You're on a hamster wheel, running, running, running, trying so hard to fit in. It's all about how you deal with what you're given, feeling OK with being the odd man out before you're finally successful.

- Drew Barrymore

topic: Running, School, Successful, Odd Man, Hamsters

When you’re in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It’s not as exciting as being a television star, but it’s not that bad, either. You just have to learn to be satisfied with the way you are for a while. Not Forever. Just until you’re finished resting.

- Barbara Park

source: Barbara Park (2011). “Almost Starring Skinnybones”, p.101, Yearling

topic: Dream, Stars, Mean, Trying So Hard

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent - people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

- Erich Fromm

source: Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have or To Be?”, p.15, Open Road Media

topic: Lonely, People, Unhappy, Trying So Hard