Chris Abani Quotes

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

I could have been a mediocre tap dancer.

Many of us stay in situations that don't serve us because we don't want to confront the fact that we've failed.

The moment you believe your own crap and excuses, you fail.

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

I guess there's a lot we hope for that never happens.

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

You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.

When somebody says I wouldn't change a thing they're thinking of something they would change.

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

I find that so many times when somebody tries to go back in, it sort of isn't as good and you wish they hadn't done it.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

For many people, an excuse is better than an achievement because an achievement, no matter how great, leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future; but an excuse can last for life.

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

I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line, but, man, I did try.

Those who don't try never look foolish.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won't get it done.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.

But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.

Now if I seem to be afraidTo live the life that I have made in songWell it's just that I've been losing so long.

Don't be that guy that's laying in that hospital bed going, 'I wonder what would have happened if I tried it?' The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn't work.