Trying And Failing Quotes:

You never fail until you stop trying.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Relativity, Trying And Failing

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

- Michael Jordan

source: "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

topic: Motivational, Change, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Young Entrepreneurs

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

- Matt Groening

topic: Funny, Life, Trying, Funniest Simpsons, Funny Simpsons

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

- Lloyd Jones

topic: Inspirational, Success, Courage, Determination Motivational, Determination To Succeed

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, About Success, Failure In Life

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

- Beverly Sills

source: "Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Empowering Women, Trying Something New

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Money, Try Again, Success Failure

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

- Samuel Beckett

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Self Determination, Try Again

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

- Charles Kettering

topic: Jobs, Work, Failure, Inventions And Inventors, Trying And Failing

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Inspirational, Perseverance, Cheer, Strength And Perseverance, Reaching For The Stars

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

- Og Mandino

topic: Failure, Trying, Shame, Trying And Failing

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance, Inspiring Presidential, Experimentation

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

- Woody Allen

topic: Failure, Trying, Learning From Mistakes, Failure In Life, Learned From Mistakes

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

- Jillian Michaels

topic: Motivational, Trying, Failing, Failure In Life, Learned From Mistakes

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

source: Rosalynn Carter (2016). “First Lady from Plains”, p.45, University of Arkansas Press

topic: Courage, Women, Failure, Risk And Failure, Risk And Success

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

- Charles Kettering

topic: Success, Failure, Science, Past Failures, Trying And Failing

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

- Georges Clemenceau

source: "Clemenceau, The Events of His Life as Told by Himself to His Former Secretary, Jean Martet". Book by Georges Clemenceau, 1930.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Fear, Failure In Life, Fear Of Failing

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Positive, Encouraging, Uplifting, Green Gables, Trying And Failing

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist, ...

- Seth Godin

topic: Winning, Innovation, Trying, Trying And Failing

I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and failing to make a different manuscript work, and I thought I was just taking a break by writing some short stories. I'm not a very good short story writer - the amazing compression that is required for short stories doesn't come easily to me. But anyway, I thought I'd try to write some short stories. And a structure took shape - I stumbled upon it.

- Ayana Mathis

topic: Stupid, Book, Writing, Trying And Failing

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

- Anna Paquin

topic: Thinking, Long, People, Trying And Failing

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

topic: Winning, Joy, Trying, Trying And Failing

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

- David O. Russell

topic: Mistake, Hard Work, Trying, Trying And Failing

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Independent, Thinking, Ideas, Independent Thinking, Stigma