Evelyn Keyes Quotes

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

If we don't give things a try, nothing will get off the ground.

I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.

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

Some disappointment is always the price of brave dreaming.

The greatest failure is the failure to try.

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.

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'd rather try and fail than not try at all, as they say.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

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

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

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

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, 'It can't be done.'

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'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what are you going to do?' I don't care. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I'll try again.

When something goes wrong in your life, it doesn't finish you, and you should become braver, knowing that you've got to go for things in life and don't regret because you didn't try to be as good as you might be.

If you fail, do not be discouraged.

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.

If you do not try, you will never succeed. So try and try until you do.

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."