“You never fail until you stop trying.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
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.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
“I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now?”
Jack Levine (1915–2010) American artist
Selden Rodman, Conversations With Artists, 1956.
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
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!”
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) American artist
“Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.”
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.
Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World
“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer
“I have never liked France or the French, and I have never stopped saying so.”
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
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!”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
You Know You're Right.
Song lyrics, Posthumously released (post-1994)
Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress
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.