Top 100 Fail Fail Better Quotes
#1. The model for tomorrow, and this is the model I've been using with enormous enthusiasm since I started blogging back in 2001, is to try everything. Make mistakes. Surprise ourselves. Try anything else. Fail. Fail better. And succeed in ways we never would have imagined a year or a week ago.
Neil Gaiman
#2. We are all victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, 'I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and i'm going to try to make myself a life worth living.
Howard Dully
#3. You have to fail and then get better. Then you have to fail again, and then get even better.
Lady Gaga
#4. It is better to participate and fail than fail to participate.
Debasish Mridha
#5. Better for a man to fail, he said, even to fail greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Timothy Egan
#6. Everyday that I procrastinate, everyday that I sit stagnant in fear, everyday that I fail to better myself, someone else out there with the same goals and dreams as me is doing the exact opposite.
Noel DeJesus
#7. Even when life turns out different than what you've planned, it's always better to try and fail than to wonder what could have been.
Kirsten Hubbard
#8. The Savior warns that if we start along the path and go far enough and then fail and deny Him, it would have been better if we had never begun.
Henry B. Eyring
#9. It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.
Joan Of Arc
#10. Routine is the enemy of instinct......It's better to change and fail than to settle.
Bishop T. D. Jakes
#11. So that went well. Not that I should have expected better. Inebriated middle-of-the-night calls are sort of destined to fail.
Jessica Park
#13. If Prophets and Messengers are the closest to godliness as any human is capable of being, and yet even they fail, how the fuck can anyone, less than perfect, be so arrogant as to expect they will do better than a Prophet, or Messenger of G-D.
Alejandro C. Estrada
#14. There is no better education than your own failures, if you've the eyes to see. We must have the courage to fail. It's evidence that we're risking to be our best.
Tim Hansel
#15. It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
Soren Kierkegaard
#16. Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.
Jack Welch
#17. O this idea that we fail to stop these things because there's not awareness about them, or that we need better early warning information, I'm increasingly skeptical of.
Rebecca Hamilton
#19. As a tennis player, you have to get used to losing every week. Unless you win the tournament, you always go home as a loser. But you have to take the positive out of a defeat and go back to work. Improve to fail better.
Stanislas Wawrinka
#20. I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there.
Ian Thorpe
#21. Let's love ourselves, then we can't fail,
To make a better situation.
Tomorrow, our seeds will grow,
All we need is dedication!
Lauryn Hill
#22. Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.
E. E. Cummings
#24. As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.
Robert Fortune
#25. Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
Edmund Phelps
#26. Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
Charles Dickens
#27. Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?
Vincent De Paul
#28. Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not to try at all.
Nicole Krauss
#29. There's nothing wrong with having a plan. Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail.
Seth Godin
#30. If you don't try, you can't fail. If you do try, you might fail anyway. But better to have failed than never tried.
Chloe Thurlow
#31. You are going to fail, and failing, for me, is as joyful as succeeding. Failing means that there is something to learn, and we can improve and do it better next time.
Sebastian Thrun
#32. Finally, this is better, that one do His own task as he may, even though he fail, Than take tasks not his own, though they seem good. To die performing duty is no ill; But who seeks other roads shall wander still.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
Joyce Meyer
#34. Change for the better ... Let your change be purposeful and determined. Never repeat steps that always make you fail. Never change a step that brings you closer to excellence! You got to make a change!
Israelmore Ayivor
#36. Fail Fast: break items into small chunks which allows for more experimentation, leading to more chances for success Fail Forward: learn from what didn't work, but continue toward what will work Fail Better: the best way to increase our amount of learning is to increase our amount of failure
Erik Qualman
#37. Never give up.Never give up on anything.
Never stop trying. It better to try and fail than never trying. All the experiences are necessary. It will prepare you for the great success which comes unexpected.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#38. It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Peter Marshall
#39. In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.
Ichiro Suzuki
#40. Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.
Joel Kinnaman
#42. Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
Lloyd Jones
#43. I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
Francis Ford Coppola
#44. Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.
John Maynard Keynes
#45. It is always better to fail than do nothing. As Wayne Gretzky put it, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Moira Bennett
#46. Any kind of self-concern, including a self-concern that leads one to shut down and give up (as, for example, a fear to fail) is itself a kind of pride. Feeling depressed that I am worse than others is as much an act of pride as feeling myself better. Both are acts of self-concern.
James E. Ferrell
#47. Far better to dare mighty things and fail mightily than to never dare at all.
Stephanie Thornton
#48. Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel Beckett
#50. If you fail to control your thought, your thought will never fail to control you! Master the art of controlling your thought better and your thought will control you better
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#51. Do what you wanna do. Really follow your dreams. Fail as many times as you can because youll only get better.
Orny Adams
#52. To me, it is better to "guess" at how something works, experiment, fail, guess again, fail, and keep repeating that process over and over again until you either figure it out or you discover a multiplicity of other cool tricks along the way.
Trey Ratcliff
#53. Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.
Tim O'Reilly
#54. You will fail, and when you do it's imperative that you not hope for things to get easier, but instead harness a desire for you to be better.
Noel DeJesus
#55. I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there.
Mark Spitz
#56. Watching somebody else fail definitely makes you feel better with what you've accomplished and where your standing is in life.
Shiri Appleby
#57. I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.
Romola Garai
#58. There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail ... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.
Hal Elrod
#59. We are leaders. War is what happens when we fail. Or are pushed into failure by the rash and the foolish. Victory is better than defeat, but ... not by much.
Joe Abercrombie
#60. The most valuable lessons in life do not come when you are walking or running. They come when you fall down. You better take them and rise up!
Israelmore Ayivor
#61. It's Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don't.
Jim Carrey
#62. It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer.
Sallust
#63. People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.
Richard P. Feynman
#64. In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Henry David Thoreau
#65. For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.
Peter Singer
#66. When you are free from self-doubt, you fail better. You accept criticism and listen.
Jennifer Lee
#67. Do you think it's better to fail at something worthwhile, or to succeed at something meaningless?
Tommy Wallach
#68. Sometimes you can fail in an experiment. But if you fail, you still don't stop observing that thing, looking for a better way.
William Kamkwamba
#69. You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed; Try no other option; Just try again with a better approach!
Israelmore Ayivor
#70. Samuel Beckett wrote, "Fail, fail again. Fail better.
Keith Ferrazzi
#71. I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. And I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.
Tim Tebow
#72. He could see the truck in the moonlight at the top of the rise. He looked off to one side of it to see it the better. There was someone standing beside it. Then they were gone. There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. Now you're goin to die.
Cormac McCarthy
#73. Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.
Justin Welby
#74. I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.
John Stossel
#75. There are confirmed stories of people who can break instruments and cause them to fail by walking in a room. I'm the opposite - I can walk into a room and something will work better than it is supposed to.
Robert Moog
#77. The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
John C. Maxwell
#78. Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer; but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
Vita Sackville-West
#79. But now I knew that true love was above all that and that it would be better to die than to fail to love.
Paulo Coelho
#80. No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's ALWAYS had EVERYTHING work out for them with ZERO struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.
Chris Hardwick
#81. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
Pema Chodron
#82. It's easy for me to work with other girls because I'm a tomboy and I don't want the guy, your boyfriend - I'm not interested in looking better than you, so don't worry. Fail or win, whatever it is, I need to go do stuff.
Michelle Rodriguez
#83. If you believe something will make the world better, then it's always worth a try, even if you fail.
Sierra St. James
#84. A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
John Berry
#85. When did you get so peppy?" she shouted.
"Ever since I assumed I was dead, then I suddenly wasn't."
"Then remind me to try to kill you once in a while," she snapped. "If I succeed, it will make me feel better, and if I fail, it will make you feel better. Everyone wins!
Brandon Sanderson
#86. Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
Winston Churchill
#87. You can only fail better only if you learn from failures. And then failing is something that prompts you to move ahead.
Pearl Zhu
#88. But I AM saying don't chase perfection for perfection's sake, or for anyone else's sake at all. If you strive for something, make sure it's for the right reasons. And if you fail, that will be a better lesson for you than any success you'll ever have. Because you learn a lot from screwing up.
Felicia Day
#89. Don't walk headfirst into sin when you know better. But when you fail, as you most surely will, let God use those failures for His glory.
Tony Evans
#90. Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win.
Debasish Mridha
#92. For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over and over to wreck myself on another human, and always failed. I fail now. For it seems that my sorrow is deep in my bones and I'd have to break every single one to let it out.
Louise Erdrich
#93. It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Arthur Machen
#94. Do you know the opportunity you get when you fail? It is starting again - an opportunity to perform better.
Ogwo David Emenike
#95. If heads of states fail to seize the opportunity of our entry into the third millennium to provide for a better government of planet Earth, history will not forgive them - if there is a history.
Robert Muller
#96. There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.
Joseph Fiennes
#97. Failure is a reality; we all fail at times, and it's painful when we do. But it's better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, I don't want to try because I may not succeed completely.
Jimmy Carter
#98. Fight honorably,
win honorably,
and lose honorably.
To fail honorably is better
than to succeed dishonorably.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#100. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Herman Melville
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