David Levithan Quotes

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

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

If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

I know i'll screw up. But i'll keep trying, as long as you let me.

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

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

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."

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time.

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.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

Don't get disillusioned, no don't expect too much Cause if what you have is all you can get Just keep on trying It just ain't happened yet.

I wonder if I will ever have the strength to hold onto something. Or if I will always be someone who destroys.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range.

There's a difference between winning and losing and not trying at all.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.

The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that by discovering and implementing a life calling, the successful stand on their pile of trash while the troubled sit under theirs.

You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy.

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.

When people try to do what they can not do, they wish to give up.

I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.