Books Quote by John Updike

“You can get discouraged many times, but you are not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else and stop trying.”

— John Burroughs

“He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing”

— Johnny Rich

“Failing is not the end of the world, but not trying is. I am who I am because I dared to fail and I…

— JOHN TASKINSOY

“If I failed in what I now designed to undertake, who, save myself, would suffer?”

— Charlotte Brontë

“He had no intention of writing. He loved reading, that was all. And he read books that he thought so far beyond anything that…

— Niall Williams

“Not trying is, of course, the ultimate failure, for it means you can never make progress toward your goals.”

— David Niven

“You are only responsible for the effort, not the outcome.”

— Bryant McGill

“The vicious cycle starts: if you fail at something, you think it is your fault. Therefore you think you can’t do that task. As…

— Donald A. Norman

“Fortunately he had nothing resembling a plan, so he didn't have to worry about things not working out according to it. He simply let…

— L.J. Davis

“If you try at something & you can't do it, don't think of it as failure. You merely succeeded backwards. And at least you tried.”

— Ray Daley

“He had experienced the fear of failure, which is frequently mistaken for failure. He made his resolve and he proceeded to work again. He…

— Melvin Ryder

“It is easy to find a logical and virtuous reason for not doing what you don’t want to do.”

— John Steinbeck