Carol Alt Quotes

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

The only failure is not trying.

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.

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

Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.

The Special Olympics motto, 'Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt,' really speaks to me because it embodies exactly what I have pursued in my life. Really, that's all any of us can hope for - a chance to be brave and to pursue a dream.

I learned about this talent show on TV that was basically the Estonian version of 'American Idol.' So I lied about my age, went on the show, and won. I think my story is about working really hard and dreaming really big.

Take the risk. Take the chance. Put your heart and soul into it, because when you put your soul into it, you will become what you've always dreamed. You yourself will become a legend.

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.

Those who dare to try what others only dream of - never fail to discover that real effort is always rewarded.

The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt.

Successful people take big risks knowing that they might fall hard. But, they might succeed more than they ever dreamed, too.

Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it.

If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure.

Dream big, sacrifice all, and you will enjoy victory.

A man who aspires to rise above the mediocre, to be something more than the ordinary, surely deserves admiration, even if he fails and loses a fortune on account of his ambitions (...) if one has failed only where others have not had the courage or will to try, there is consolation - indeed, deep satisfaction - to be gained from his observation when looking back over one's life. #Page no.134

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

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

I can't say I'm surprised I was successful. I was determined - and I got it.

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk, and to act.

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

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.