You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

– Beverly Sills –

You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, You just might find You get what you need.

– Mick Jagger and Keith Richards – “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized – never knowing.

– Jim Rohn –

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

– Margaret Chase Smith –

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

– Henry David Thoreau –

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

– Ralph Waldo Emerson –

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

– W. Clement Stone –

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

– Samuel Johnson –

To know that one has never really tried–that is the only death.

– Marie Dressler – My Own Story

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals – this alone is worth the struggle.

– Sir William Osler –