“You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.”

“Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway.
If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.”

Ann Brashares book Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood

“You never fail until you stop trying.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years. Or your approach may be fatally flawed and doomed to fail. Or you could get scooped just as you are finalising your work. It is very stressful.”

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952) Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist

“If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Don't expect much and you won't be disappointed.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

“Don't feel bad when you meet disappointment, it prepares you for an extraordinary ending”

Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker

“Try them, try them, and you may! Try them and you may, I say.”

Dr. Seuss book Green Eggs and Ham

“Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. You make a spectacle of yourself every time.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist