David Viscott Quotes

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

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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."

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

I miss many chances, but I always keep trying, and sometimes you score easy goals or difficult goals, but in the end, I am trying to score.

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 learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

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.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

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

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop 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.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

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

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

There will be some things I do well and things I do wrong. But I keep coming. Playing with heart. That's going to help me continue to grow.

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.