Gene Kranz Quotes

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

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

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: "He Tried".

Let us live in the harness, striving mightily.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

I will forgive if the players cannot get it right, but not if they do not try hard.

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

Sometimes it takes a thousand tries to win

One errs as long as one strives.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

The only time we fail is when we stop trying.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

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

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

If everything you try works, you aren't trying hard enough.

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

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

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.

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

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.