"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
— Robert F. Kennedy

"If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)"
— Mercedes Lackey (Owlknight)

"These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman."
— Abigail Adams

"But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--"
— Hubert Selby Jr. (Requiem for a Dream)

"Trying is always enough. "
— Patricia Briggs (Dragon Bones)

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

""I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahead of me as the seniors at Rye when I was in the sixth grade; people who knew everything instinctively, who made their lives work out the way they wanted without even trying, who never had to make the best of a bad job because it never occured to them to do anything less then perfectly the first time. Sort of heroic super-people, all of them beautiful and witty and calm and kind, and I always imagined that when I did find them I'd suddenly know that I Belonged among them, that I was one of them, that I'd been meant to be one of them all along, and everything in teh meantime had been a mistake; and they'd know it too. I'd be like the ugly duckling among the swans.""
— Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road)

"People don't fail; they just stop trying."
— Bud Boyd

"Try and fail, but don't fail to try."
— Stephen Kaggwa

"A scientist doesn't know all the answers. Nobody does, not even teachers. But a scientist keeps on trying to find the answers.

--Dr. Ziemer "
— Oliver Butterworth (The Enormous Egg)

"I can accept failing. I can't accept not trying."
— Micheal Jordan

"All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
— Samuel Beckett (Worstward ho)