You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'.

Homer Simpson

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone, until those smiling possibilities are dead.

William James

If people knew how hard I worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all.

Michelangelo

This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.

Bishop Robert C Mortimer

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Welsh Proverb