Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail…

Even if my strength should fail, my daring will win me praise: in might enterprises even the will to succeed is enough.

— Propertius

“Anything done in our own strength will fail miserably, or succeed even more miserably.”—Unknown”

— Paul Chappell

Although strength should fail, the effort will deserve praise. In great enterprises the attempt is enough.

— Sextus Propertius

Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously.

— Bob Balaban

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

— George Saunders

Apologies are not pass/fail.

— Randy Pausch

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

— Kent Beck

This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.

— Mark Wahlberg

What I want is to be willing to fail rather than stagnate.

— James Dickey

We can't afford any president to fail.

— Glenn Beck

My willingness to fail gives me the ability to succeed.

— Vinod Khosla

Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

— Kate Forsyth

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

— Anonymous

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

— Dustin Hoffman

If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented,…

— Joel Salatin