Our doubts are traitors; and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

             —William Shakespeare

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

                            —Tom Hopkins

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

                    —William Faulkner

When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it.

           —Margaret Chase Smith

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

                        —Robert Schuller

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

           —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

                      —Kathleen Winsor

If you want something badly enough, make an attempt. If you want to paint, get a brush and do it. If you want to sing, sing. A lot of people get scared. They’re afraid to fail. Take that word out of your vocabulary. You don’t “fail.” You’ve “tried your best.”

                           —Jane Seymour

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

                                    —T.S. Eliot

“I can’t do it” never yet accomplished anything. “I will try” has performed miracles.

                 —George P. Burnham

Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.

                                —Lee Iacocca

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

                       —Samuel Johnson

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.

                      —Stephen Kaggwa