Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

Try and fail, but don't fail to try.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything--and it works.

Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
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Why, like the hindmost chariot wheels, art curst
Still to be near but ne'er to reach the first.
[Lat., Nam quamvis prope to, quamvis temone sub uno
Verentem sese, frustra sectabere cantum
Cum rota posterior curras et in axe secundo.]

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, read more

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.

If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.

If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single
excuse.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single
excuse.

When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be
momentarily comforting.

When all else fails, duck. It's not practical, but it can be
momentarily comforting.

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

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

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.

Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.