“I was never no, never no, never enough,
But I can try, I can try to toughen up.”
"Change Is Hard".
She & Him : Volume One (2008)
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“Don’t try, don’t try, Don’t try you’ll never win, And you can never be him. ~ "Sleep Better"”
Song lyrics

Variant: Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others, and try to be the best you can be. Success is the by-product of that preparation.

“I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?”
Selden Rodman, Conversations With Artists, 1956.
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert

As quoted in an interview with Marc Blau (2004) http://www.celebratestadium.com/blogz/2006/04/stadium-olympics-hollywood.html
Context: I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say "no", never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.

“I have failed at times, but I never stopped trying.”
In press conference announcing retirement from Test cricket, quoted in " After 16 yrs, Rahul Wall Dravid retires from intl cricket" in Indian Express (Indianexpress.com) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/after-16-yrs-rahul-wall-dravid-retires-from-intl-cricket/921750/0