Courage to Try Quotes

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

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

Don't permit fear of failure to prevent effort.

To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.

The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.

You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.

The best advice I got from my aunt, the great singer Rosemary Clooney, and from my dad, who was a game show host and news anchor, was: don't wake up at seventy years old sighing over what you should have tried. Just do it, be willing to fail, and at least you gave it a shot. That's echoed for me all through the last few years.

But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

Fear will give us a reason not to try; hope will give us a reason not to listen.

I believe that a creative career is only as good as the risks that you take with it.

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.