T. S. Eliot Quotes

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

I have gone into every project with the same enthusiasm and the same hope, but some have worked out, and some haven't.

I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought.

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.

You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.

Though we live in a failing world, we have not been sent here to fail.

If you try to win, you might lose, but if you don't try to win, you lose for sure!

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

Failure is a word that I simply don't accept.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

Really, you don't lose until you stop trying.

We have all lost before and we will win again.

A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don't have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

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."