Phyllis George Quotes

It might be scary because you're taking a risk, but at the end of the day you can say you tried.

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

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

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

It's better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

I don’t care about risk, honestly. The riskiest thing to do is not to act. I would far rather try and fail than fail not trying.

I don't reject caution, but you also have to be careful about caution because there's a stage when it turns into paralysis.

Better to try and fail than not to try at all

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

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

The only failure is not trying.

Do not be one of those who, rather than risk failure, never attempts anything.

Remember, the greatest failure is not to try.

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.

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

It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.