Attempt
To make trial or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight.
To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
To try to win, subdue, or overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman.
To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp.
To make an attempt; -- with upon.
A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort.
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Attempt Quotations
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare
Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
Mahatma Gandhi
I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.
Warren Buffett
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Umberto Eco
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van Gogh
Attempt Translations
attempt in Afrikaans is aanpak, probeer, poging
attempt in Dutch is streven, trachten, pogen, moeite doen
attempt in Finnish is koettaa, ponnistella
attempt in German is Versuch, versuchen
attempt in Italian is esperimentare, esperimento, attentato, operazione
attempt in Latin is inceptum, conor, rudimentum, tendo
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