God doesn’t require that we succeed. He only requires that you try.

Mother Teresa, a humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize winner who left her convent to help the sick and poor while living among them.

Many say I am just one to try. I say I am one less to quit.

Diego Marchi (thanks Claudia!)

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.

Rosalynn Carter

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you’re doomed if you don’t try.

Beverly Sills

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh