Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

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

I'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

The only failure is not to try.

Somebody has to try it.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

THERE'S NO OTHER WAY to find out whether or not you'll be successful other than just doing it

I like the person who commits and goes all in and takes big swings and then maybe fails or looks stupid; who jumps and falls down, rather than the person who points at the person who fell, and laughs.

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

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

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

I like to say that the one thing that all people who succeed in changing the world have in common is that they at least tried.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

Unless you enter the tiger's lair, you cannot get hold of the tiger's cub's.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts

The only failure is not trying.

You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.