Beverly Sills Quotes

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.

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

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

Better to try and fail than not to try at all

What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

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

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

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.

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

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

The only failure is not to try.

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

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

True hopefulness and optimism is what leads one to dare. It is also what lifts one back up to dare again after a failed attempt.

I lost my first mayor's race. I lost the primary. But we came back and won that. So I know you've got to play to win, but you can't be afraid to lose.

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

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

Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway. If you don't try, you save nothing, because you might as well be dead.

I'd rather try and not win than not try at all

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.

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

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.