There is no failure except in no longer trying.

Source: Elbert Hubbard, As quoted from Electrical Review (c. 1895) without further attribution in The Search for the North Pole (1896) by Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, page 520. Complete Sentence: Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass Read More…

One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. – Sophocles

“I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything; “I will try” has performed wonders.

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When the world says, Give up, Hope whispers, Try it one more time.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Only Those Who Dare To Fail Greatly Can Achieve Greatly.

Source: Robert Francis Kennedy; Day of Affirmation Address (6 June 1966), Speech in Capetown, South Africa. Complete Quote: Of course to adhere to standards, to idealism, to vision in the face of immediate dangers takes great courage and takes self-confidence. But we also know that only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve Read More…

Achievement – It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Source: Theodore Roosevelt; The Strenous Life “Speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899” Complete Sentence: It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort. Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been stored up Read More…