Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
~ Mary Kay Ash
It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.
~ Phyllis Bottome
If you risk nothing then you risk everything.
~ Geena Davis
Men must try and try again.
~ Lawson Purdy
In the past few women have tried and even fewer have succeeded.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
A mistake is not a failure but evidence that someone tried to do something.
~ Anonymous
Man must strive and in striving he must err.
~ Johann Von Goethe
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
~ George Eliot
The sight of a cage is only frightening to the bird that has once been caught.
~ Rachel Field
Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.
~ Jinger Heath
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them then move outwards one small step at a time.
~ Audrey Hepburn
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
~ Flannery O'connor
There might be false starts and do-overs. You are entitled to experiment before you find your calling.
~ Jane Pauley
Life is the only real counselor. Wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
~ Edith Wharton
The only failure which lacks dignity is the failure to try.
~ Malcolm F. Macneil
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.
~ Marie Dressier
We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do ... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
~ Cybil Shepherd
If you're not failing you're not trying anything.
~ Woody Allen
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.
~ Shirley Hufstedler
Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.
~ Andre Bustanoby
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
~ Georges Clémenceau
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and fall.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
~ Helen Keller
Inaction contrary to its reputation for being a refuge is neither safe nor comfortable.
~ Madeleine Kunin
They fail and they alone who have not striven.
~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich
You may be disappointed if you fail but you are doomed if you don't try.
~ Beverly Sills
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Failure is something made only by those who fail to dare not by those who dare to fail.
~ Louis Binstock
You don't always win your battles but it's good to know you fought.
~ Marjorie Holmes
The man who has done his level best and who is conscious that he has done his best is a success even though the world may write him down a failure.
~ B. C. Forbes
Many a man never fails because he never tries.
~ Norman Macewan
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.
Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
~ Georges Carpentier
When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.
~ Hugh Prather
Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.
~ William Ellery Channing
A stumble may prevent a fall.
~ Thomas Fuller
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
~ William M. Marston
