Trying To Succeed Quotes:

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

source: "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Best Success

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

- Dale Carnegie

source: "Permission to Play: Taking Time to Renew Your Smile". Book by Jill Murphy Long, 2003.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Fun Work, Just Want To Have Fun

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

- Michael Korda

source: "Success!". Book by Michael Korda (p.240), 1977.

topic: Failure, Successful, People, Trying To Succeed

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

- Samuel Smiles

topic: Mistake, Congratulations, Men, Determination To Succeed, Trying To Succeed

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

topic: Attitude, Business, Failure, Fail To Succeed, Positive Affirmations

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

- Gore Vidal

topic: Failure, Envy, Political, Fail To Succeed, Trying To Succeed

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

- David Viscott

source: DAVID VISCOTT (1971). “FEEL FREE”

topic: Hurt, Failure, Thinking, Trying To Succeed, Natural Consequences

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

- Diana Wynne Jones

source: Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

topic: Trying, Spiders, Firsts, Try Again, Successful Business

To succeed, we must first believe that we can.

- Michael Korda

source: "Success!" by Michael Korda, (p. 284), 1977.

topic: Positive, Believe, Firsts, Inspirational Believe In Yourself, Salespeople

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Funny, Running, Risk, Stupid Celebrity, Stupid Funny

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

- Nikos Kazantzakis

topic: Faith, Believe, Inspirational Believe In Yourself, Salespeople, Order To Succeed

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Marketing And Sales, Infinite Hope

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

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

- Thomas A. Edison

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Thought Of The Day, Try Again

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Make Up Your Mind, Inspirational Addiction Recovery

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

- Booker T. Washington

source: Booker T. Washington (1901). “An Autobiography: The Story of My Life and Work, the Original Brought Up-to-date with Over Half a Hundred Full Page Photo and Halftone Engravings and Drawings by Frank Beard”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Best Success, Inspirational History

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 better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

- Herman Melville

source: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.1775, e-artnow

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Creativeness, Inspire And Motivate

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

- Og Mandino

source: Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

topic: Being Strong, Encouraging, Encouragement, Self Determination, Inspirational Determination

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Pushing On, Source Of Life

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

- Confucius

source: As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

topic: Positive, Monday, Motivation, Inspirational Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

- Robert H. Schuller

source: Robert H. Schuller (1996). “Prayer: My Soul's Adventure with God”, Image

topic: Motivational, Success, Encouragement, Inactivity, Deeds Done

If at first you don't succeed, try management.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Success, Perseverance, Persistence, Try Again, About Success

To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

- Tony Dorsett

source: Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Sports Spirit, Professional Career

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.

- William Feather

topic: Success, Perseverance, Hard Work, Try Again, Spanish And English

How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)

- Shepherd Mead

source: Title of book (1952)

topic: Book, Trying, Succeed, Musical Theater, Broadway Musical

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Motivational, Success, Teamwork, Inspirational Team, Inspirational Teamwork

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

- Bill Cosby

source: Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Success, Inspirational Change, Improving Yourself

If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

- William Edward Hickson

topic: Inspirational, Success, Trying, Try Again, About Success

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

- Christian Nestell Bovee

topic: Motivational, Strong, Determination, Strong Determination, Life Determination

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Time, Life Ambition, My Ambition

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

- Henry Ford

topic: Inspirational, Success, Graduation, Marketing And Sales, Inspirational Team

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

- Quentin Crisp

topic: Funny, Success, Sarcastic, Success Failure, Wittiest

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.

- W. C. Fields

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Try Again, Overcoming Rejection

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.

- Norman Geras

topic: Trying, Succeed, Doe, Trying To Succeed

He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of 'nothing attempted, nothing gained' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

- Wilferd Peterson

topic: Motivational, Wise, Philosophy, Trying To Succeed

The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Wise, Philosophy, Failure, Trying To Succeed

The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about it, just trusting, completely. It's that faith that creates the bridge on which you walk across to eternity.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhist, Buddhism, Thinking, Working Very Hard, Trying To Succeed

Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.

- Michael Jordan

topic: Success, Basketball, Baseball, Playing Basketball, Trying To Succeed

I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.

- Zara Phillips

topic: People, Waiting, Trying, Trying To Succeed