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The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.
The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.
He that is down can fall no lower.
He that is down can fall no lower.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -Robert F. Kennedy.
He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
[Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]
He beat the bushes without taking the birds.
[Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Failures are divided into two classes--those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, read more
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.
There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.
I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.
I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.
Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
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Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
[Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno
Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum
Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]