Unsuccessful Effort Quotes

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?

Life’s greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

Weakness ineffectually seeks to disguise itself,--like a drunken man trying to show how sober he is.

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

Whenever you put so much time and effort into one single game, and you go out there and lose, it sucks.