Top 100 Fail Trying Quotes
#1. I would rather fail trying than succeed at doing nothing.
Denis Waitley
#2. We shall pursue our dreams until [we] reach[ ... ] it. Or fail[ ... ] trying.
Greg Mortenson
#3. If I'm going to fail, I want to fail trying.
Tiffany Hawk
#4. When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.
Aza Raskin
#5. If you try and fail, make another effort, and
still another ... until you succeed.
Napoleon Hill
#6. Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.
Alan Greenspan
#7. Let's try and fail because through failure you learn
Jared Leto
#8. What good is an idea if it remains an idea? Try. Experiment. Iterate. Fail. Try again. Change the world.
Simon Sinek
#9. I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
Anne Tyler
#10. The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have ... ," I wouldn't be here today.
Debbi Fields
#11. You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
Ian McKellen
#12. A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?
Christian Bale
#13. It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.
John C. Danforth
#14. To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
Rosa Parks
#15. Life's greatest tragedy consists of men and women who earnestly try, and fail!
Napoleon Hill
#16. To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
Chester Barnard
#17. When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love the man - so the shock of his bad behaviour is considerable, even when you know it is coming.
Claire Tomalin
#18. You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.
John Green
#19. 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
#20. Religion has always been the picklock of imperialism. Let them try to convert the heathens, and when they fail, we shall send in the French Navy to protect them and our political and commercial interests.
Jules Ferry
#21. Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try ... When your life is governed by the divine nature instead of the self-centered nature you have found inner peace.
Peace Pilgrim
#22. Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.
Phillip Adams
#23. The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.
Jess C. Scott
#24. Unless you stop trying, how can you not fail anymore?
PewDiePie
#25. If you try to be anyone but yourself, you will fail; if you are not true to your own heart, you will fail. Then again, there's no success like failure
Bob Dylan
#26. I don't care whether I succeed or whether I fail as long as I am trying. I hope that I succeed.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#27. It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying.
Aspen Matis
#28. You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
Ben Carson
#29. I try to be original in every piece of music I do, and of course I probably fail every time.
Herbert
#30. The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.
Benjamin Netanyahu
#31. 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
#32. We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.
Tariq Ramadan
#33. You're trying your best to make people laugh; then if you fail, they hate you. But your intent's the same. It's not like you're trying to do evil to them.
Norm MacDonald
#34. If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
Jesse Jackson
#35. We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
Joyce Meyer
#36. 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
#37. The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.
May Sarton
#38. You can keep trying. Try and fail, try and fail. Maybe many times, but if you continue to try while the others do not, then you will win. So never stop trying.
Joseph R. Lallo
#39. My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.
Sara Blakely
#40. We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward.
Scott Jurek
#41. Failure is your inability to recognize that you have made the same mistakes again. Making a mistake is normal; it turns abnormal when it's not recognized!
Israelmore Ayivor
#42. When champions fail, they get back up and try again. They don't let failure discourage them.
Mary Ellen Clark
#45. If you think you cannot do it, you set yourself up to fail anyway. Maybe it will take one more try to do it, and that is what life is about. If you don't get it right on the first try, you try again. You keep doing it and doing it until you find success!
Benoit Lecomte
#46. I'd much rather try and fail than talk about trying.
Mike Birbiglia
#48. I'm a risk taker, so I have come to accept that at times I will fail. To me, that is better than not trying at all.
Cara Santana
#49. Often romantic relationships fail because you are trying to get someone to fall in love with the YOU that you never discovered.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.
St. Jerome
#52. 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
#54. 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
#55. Most ventures fail in the early stages because people stop trying after they're told no too many times.
Adam Braun
#56. Trying to appeal to everyone is almost sure to fail, for the simple reason that everyone wants something different!
Seth Godin
#57. In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity.
Eddie Izzard
#58. You see how I try To reach with words What matters most And how I fail.
Czeslaw Milosz
#59. I rise, I fall
Always trying.
I succeed, I fail
Seldom crying.
You've been so far
Yet near to my heart.
I remember you
Seldom crying.
You've left me
I've been so lonely.
I try to laugh and end up,
Seldom crying.
MoKSh
#60. The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried
Richard Dawkins
#61. Satan's first appearance in the Bible included an attack on a marriage - trying to divide Adam and Eve. His tactics have not changed. He wants our marriages to flounder and fail, because he knows that few things will discourage us more.
Billy Graham
#62. It is impossible for those who tried and kept trying to fail. How can they fail when they have not given up in the task?
N.K.David
#63. True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.
Jewel
#64. Do not try to make your headline so short that it fails to express your idea properly. It's more important to say what you want to say - even if it takes 20 words to do than make it short and fail to express your idea.
John Caples
#66. Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.
Scott Shane
#67. If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough - they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things.
Donald A. Norman
#68. When failure imprisons you for not doing what you should have done, you have no option than to bail yourself on the promise of trying again! Try again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#69. To live as God's child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.
Max Lucado
#70. These moments of inner quiet will burn out all obstacles without fail. Don't doubt its efficacy. Try it.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#71. Being a successful trader also takes courage: the courage to try, the courage to fail, the courage to succeed, and the courage to keep on going when the going gets tough.
Michael Marcus
#72. I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.
John Irving
#73. Men do not fail; they give up trying.
Elihu Root
#75. A lot of times we set ourselves up to fail. It's interesting. A lot of times the resolutions we choose are the ones, like you said in the opening, we keep breaking over and over again. Sometimes it reflects parts of ourselves that we really need to accept instead of trying to change.
Cheryl Richardson
#76. Trying is terrifying because I know I will just fail. But I do want things to be different. I do ... I am so afraid. I'm afraid to hope again.
Nic Sheff
#77. To all what we have not tried, we would never wish to try if we knew that we would fail.
Auliq Ice
#78. Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.
Fairfield Porter
#80. In trying to formalize a rule, we look for truth, but what we find is knowledge, and what we fail to find is certainty. This limitation has no special bearing on the knowledge of self.
Jacob Bronowski
#81. It is impossible for those that tried and kept trying to fail. How can they fail when they have not given up in the task?" N.K.David
N.K.David
#82. I guess another message I'd like to say with this book is no matter how many times you fail ... I failed a lot of times trying to get clean, and never thought I'd get to this point.
Lawrence Taylor
#83. I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.
Tamara Mellon
#84. And I was scrambling around trying to make money and to study and master (and fail at mastering) the art of being an adult.
Miriam Toews
#85. The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.
John P. Kotter
#86. Mission + tools. That's really what it takes to have focus ... you fail at focus because whatever you are trying to focus on isn't important enough to you.
Chris Brogan
#89. Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.
Ernest Hemingway,
#90. So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.
Venus Williams
#91. What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.
Phyllis George
#92. God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.
Phil Ochs
#93. He who fails to prepare, prepares to fail
Confucius
#94. We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.
Shunryu Suzuki
#95. I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed and the number of times I succeed is in direct porption to the number of times I can fail and keep trying.
Tom Hopkins
#97. I do not hold to the old belief that professors like writers because they can see us fail in a grander and sillier and therefore more unequivocal way than they have. On the contrary, they like to see someone trying, giving it all up to set a permanent mark.
Richard Ford
#98. To fail at trying is worse than to fail after trying. If we never try, then we never learn.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#99. Failure is not an option. Failure is necessary ... We try. We fail. We learn. We adjust.
Craig Groeschel
#100. When we fail to acknowledge God as the Source of all good things, we fail to give Him the recognition and glory He deserves. We separate God from joy, which is like trying to separate heat from fire or wetness from rain.
Randy Alcorn
