Favorite Quotes on Trying
Here are some of my favorite quotes on trying, determination and courage. I always try to keep a copy of this small file on whatever computer I’m using… and whenever I’m feeling blah for whatever reason, I take a quick peek. Does the trick (that, and a lot of coffee!).
Got similar quotes you rely on? Share them with us please (just comment below)!
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
— Thomas Alva Edison
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan, ‘Press on,’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
— Calvin Coolidge
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“Don’t get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
— Unknown
“The last time you failed, did you stop trying because you failed — or did you fail because you stopped trying?”
— Unknown
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
— Anais Nin
“Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”
— Doug Larson
“Some succeed because they are destined to. But most succeed because they are determined to.”
— Unknown
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says… I’ll try again tomorrow.”
— Mary Anne Radmacher-Hershey
Good luck, and have fun out there! 
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Just a few I’ve heard, which might be paraphrased; no idea who the original authors are.
Losing a battle does not mean the war is lost.
Trying gets one thing done, the action of trying. Doing accomplishes everything else.
The things learned during what is perceived as a failure may be exactly the experience required for a later, greater accomplishment.
Will
Hi William
Your second quote sounds close to Yoda’s “Do not try. Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
If you think about it, it probably produced a whole generation of non triers. Not really too motivational, is it?
ees