“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”
“That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.”
Source: Howl's Moving Castle
“Don't try to be useful. Try to be yourself: that is enough & that makes all the difference.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Uselessness
“Don't try to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.”
Zire Notes (May 2004 - December 2006)
“When I was a little boy I used to repeat: "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again."”
That is what I am doing. When I come back I hope I may be able to say, as Hotspur said in Henry IV, "Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."
Speech at Heston Airport before his flight to Munich to meet Hitler (29 September 1938), quoted in The Times (30 September 1938), p. 12
Prime Minister
“Moral: Don't try to Account for Anything.”
The Fable of the Caddy who Hurt His Head While Thinking
“If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!”
Autobiography, Arno Penzias, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978 (provided in 2004)
