Margaret Heffernan Quotes

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Go ahead, work hard and never be afraid to try something. Even if you don't make it, at least you can say you tried.

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

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.

I enjoy the fun of failure. It's fun to fail, I kept repeating. It's part of being ambitious; it's part of being creative. If something is worth doing, it's worth doing badly

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort

I'd rather try and not win than not try at all

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard.

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

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Don't be afraid to fail. For the love of God, don't be afraid to fail, because you're going to fail. So try to fail as hard as you can is what I would say, because you're always going to get up and you're going to learn something from it.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

It's not about failure; it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.

Be talented enough to make it and stupid enough to keep trying.

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

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