Attempt

Famous quotes containing the word attempt:

“... to be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)

“Any serious attempt to try to do something worthwhile is ritualistic.”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)

“Then is what you see through this window onto the world so lovely that you have no desire whatsoever to look out through any other window?—and that you even make an attempt to prevent others from doing so?”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)