Quotes About Effort

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.

It is not the critic who counts

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.

It is technically a failure when you don't try.

It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult).

They were not failures, they were new found ways of what does not work "I can accept failure,everyonefails at something. But I can't accept not trying

Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

No one can be guaranteed success without failures along the way. But one thing that guarantees failure is never taking action.

Failure is not the outcome - failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

There is no such thing as a failure who keeps trying.

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

The only failure is not trying.

Trying is the first step toward failure.

There's no such thing as failure if you just try.

With failure, you just try again.

any effort at large-scale reorganization - that is, any project spanning more than two years and, more generally, anything that has not already been done - is inevitably doomed to failure.

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.