“He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.”

— Charles Frazier , book Cold Mountain

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American writer 1950

Og Mandino book The Greatest Salesman in the World

Variant: Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.
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“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 Clemenceau (1841–1929) French politician

Conversation with Jean Martet (1 June 1928), Ch. 30
Clemenceau, The Events of His Life (1930)

“He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.”

Emily St. John Mandel book Station Eleven

Source: Station Eleven (2014), Chapter 53 (p. 327)

“Rousseau … asked himself how he might make as much as possible of the interval that remained; and he was not biassed by anything in his previous life when he decided that it must be by intellectual excitement.”

Walter Pater (1839–1894) essayist, art and literature critic, fiction writer

Conclusion
The Renaissance http://www.authorama.com/renaissance-1.html (1873)

“Every Messiah fails, writes Litvak, the moment he tries to redeem himself”

Michael Chabon book The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Source: The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (2007), Chapter 38
Source: The Yiddish Policemen's Union

“All of a sudden he knew. Shadrach was rabbit's name. It even sounded black! He tried it on his tongue. He listened to it. Shadrach.”

Meindert DeJong book Shadrach

Shadrach (1957)

“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry ﬁrst, ﬁnds he can’t, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Paris Review interview (1958)

“When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might. There's one thing, however, that will never lead anywhere, and that is speculating that such behavior will lead somewhere.”

Václav Havel book Disturbing the Peace

Introduction, p. xvi
Disturbing the Peace (1986)

“Here lies one who meant well, tried a little, failed much: — surely that may be his epitaph of which he need not be ashamed.”

Robert Louis Stevenson book Across the Plains

Source: Across the Plains (1892), Ch. XII, A Christmas Sermon.

“The tragedy of tragedies is that man continues to live in poverty when he might have riches, in weakness when he might have strength, in sorrow when he might have joy, in despair when he might have hope.”

Kirby Page (1890–1957) American clergyman

Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 75

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