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
“You never fail until you stop trying.”
“I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?”
Selden Rodman, Conversations With Artists, 1956.
Letter to Larry Callen (30 October 1957), p. 71
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
Context: They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" — and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all". And with that, I'll stop trying to convince myself that I can't fail; how dull the whole thing would be if that were true.
“I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!”
“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.”
Variant: Never feel shame for trying and failing for he who has never failed is he who has never tried.
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World
“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
“I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so.”
15 February 1945.
Disputed, The Testament of Adolf Hitler (1945)
“Things have never been so swell
and I have never felt this well! I have never failed to feel… Pain!”
You Know You're Right.
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)
As quoted in Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story (1979) by A. E. Hotchner, p. 76.
Context: I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.
