Ken Kesey Quotes

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

Fruitless striving breeds less despair than inaction.

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.

It is the "try" that is more often counted for righteousness and not the success or failure.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

What did you try hard at today?

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try!

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: "He Tried".

If you do not try, you will never succeed. So try and try until you do.

You can't always win - although we always try!

I can't take anything back. I've just kept grinding and kept working.

I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

The thing I would like most to leave behind is to be remembered for trying hard.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

We strain hardest for things which are almost but not quite within our reach.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.