26 Movie Quotes about Trying (+ Sound Clips) - page 3

Updated: Jun 22, 2026

Memorable quotes about trying, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

21 If you keep on doing different things, you're going to win, just as much as anyone else. Just keep trying. Don't give up.

Glenn Gilger as Linus Van Pelt in A Boy Named Charlie Brown

22 I look stupid. I look like I'm tryin' too hard. I was gonna get a haircut, but then I'd just look like I got a haircut.

Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin in Sleepless in Seattle

23 Don't I even get credit for a good try?

Quote from Superman (1948)

24 Shut up, shut up! -Shut up! -Let somebody else try for a change.

Jon Lovitz as Radio in The Brave Little Toaster (1987)

25 What is it you're trying to achieve, sir?

Paul Bettany as Jarvis in Iron Man 2

26 We can always do better. I'm gonna keep trying if you guys keep trying. Let's keep rocking 'n' rolling, man.

Mark Wahlberg as Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights (1997)