Quotes About Trying Again

#1. 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

#2. ...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again.

Ada Calhoun

#3. Keep trying again

Sasha Maurtitus

#4. 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

#5. When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

Michelle Kwan

#6. He first teaches us the power of always trying again.

C.S. Lewis

#7. You learn by trying, making mistakes, correcting and trying again and again until your reach the desired goal, which is rarely without effort, but is rather a reward for hard work.

Dante Alighieri

#8. The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

Simon Sinek

#9. Don't let things go, if you truly don't want them to go, trying again is far better than regret.

Magith Noohukhan

#10. It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again.

Tim Hansel

#11. Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

Thomas S. Monson

#12. 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

#13. Failure is not fatal until we surrender
trying again is the key of glorious victory

Muhammad Iqbal

#14. It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

Lyndon B. Johnson

#15. Trying again is okay. Trying again and again and again is okay. It's sort of an infinite thing because the alternative is failure, and that's not okay.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#16. Part. The sin God rebukes is not trying and failing, but failing to try. Trying, failing, and trying again is called learning.

Henry Cloud

#17. I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.

Jenn Proske

#18. I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.

Sabrina Ward Harrison

#19. The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent.

Danielle Steel

#20. I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going back and trying again, trying to do better each time.

Paul Auster

#21. Persevering is not often simply a matter of working hard and refusing to quit; often, by trying again, failing again, and failing better, we inadvertently place ourselves in the way of luck.

Karen Karbo

#22. There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.

Sara Zarr

#23. But if I die without trying again, I'm a coward. I don't mind having regrets about stuff I've done. It's the regrets about stuff I haven't done that bother me.

Poppy Z. Brite

#24. If at first you don't succeed, getting outa bed is a great first step to trying again.

Danny A. Brown

#25. 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

#26. We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

Jerry Bridges

#27. If at first you don't succeed, sure, try again ... but if you keep not succeeding, you should probably concentrate on something (or someone) else worthwhile & quit wasting your time.

Ingrid Weir

#28. I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change

John C. Maxwell

#29. You were broken years ago and you healed hunched. And now you're broken again and trying to heal even more hunched.

Brent Weeks

#30. She has been trying to pull her worth from him for so long. She has been trying to extract her beauty from his skin. She has been dying to be loved by him again ... but he will always leave her empty

Coco J. Ginger

#31. I don't know how easy that would be but I'd try just to lead an ordinary life again. Stay out of the papers.

Mark David Chapman

#32. If I got to you once, I can do it again. And maybe next time I won't waste my breath trying to prove the fact that I'm your equal."
"I am the King, you realize."
"And I'm the daughter of a deity, motherfucker.

J.R. Ward

#33. Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.

Rita Mae Brown

#34. I remember trying steroids very briefly in the 1989 -1990 off season, and then after I was injured in 1993, I used steroids again.

Mark McGwire

#35. I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.

Xavier Dolan

#36. I mean, accidents happen. You learn from them and you try to make sure they don't happen again.

Joe Lieberman

#37. In the saddle again, Fire mulled over the commander's trust, prodding it around, like a candy in her mouth, trying to decide whether she believed it.

Kristin Cashore

#38. I choose every role, in association with the other ones. I try not to do one thing, over and over and over again.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#39. Levi watched her carefully again, his gaze roaming over her face, as if he was trying to see into her mind. "You're not lying. Why are you doing this?"
"Because if I try to shut you out you'll cause me more problems than I want to deal with. And I don't want to kill you.

Katie Reus

#40. Tristan was looking at him again.
"What are you looking at?" Gabriel snapped.
Tristan was trying not to smile. "You tell me."
Gabriel rolled his eyes. "Quit being a girl.

Chelsea Fine

#41. 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

#42. It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whole lifetime.

Jeanette Winterson

#43. If you get a second chance, grab it with the first and second hands. Never let it go till all is done and done well. Second chances come with the last graces!

Israelmore Ayivor

#44. Does it hurt now?" he asked, his tone rough and seductive.
"No." She shook her head again and sighed, trying to pretend his touch didn't make her uncomfortably wet.
He grinned. "So...what's with the heavy breathing?

Eden Summers

#45. Scared of flying?"
"Nope"
"Heights?"
"Nope"
The plane shook again, and I closed my eyes, trying to take deep breaths.
"What is it then?"
"I have a fear of falling from heights.

Laura Kreitzer

#46. I got the part [in Into the Forest], I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually love that it was changed to Crystal Pite's modern dance. And I wouldn't even really call it modern dance because it feels like it's in its own genre.

Evan Rachel Wood

#47. If it does not work the first time, try, try again. Then quit. No need to be an idiot.

W.C. Fields

#48. I hugged my knees to my chest, desperately trying to hold myself together so I didn't splinter into a thousand pieces. If I let go, no one would ever be able to put the pieces together again.

Cat Clarke

#49. Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.

Tove Jansson

#50. Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

Payne Stewart

#51. You've got to be able to take a hit and learn from it and get back up on your bike again, or get back doing whatever you do, and try even harder next time. It's all about learning from your mistakes and using it the next time so you don't put yourself in the same situation.

Magnus Backstedt

#52. ~~~

Wherever his team went, Dex seemed to pick up a fan following. Something about the guy fascinated Humans and Therians alike. Sloane was still trying to work out what it was. Especially since the guy was...well, kinda weird. Then again, crazy had a way of attracting crazy.

Charlie Cochet

#53. I realize that a writer's business is setting fire to Piggy Sneed-and trying to save him-again and again; forever.

John Irving

#54. Oh, for the love of God, Ella. You're going to make me come right now." I grunted, trying to steel myself and last a little longer. I could feel my own tension building and knew I wouldn't last long. "Screw it," I said. "I'll just fuck you again later." - Jonathan di Luca

R. Matthews

#55. Saving a worthy relationship is easier than trying to start a new one.

Dennis E. Adonis

#56. The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.

Ian MacKaye

#57. The 9th key may be the door opener. Don't give up after trying the 8th. Keep doing it!

Israelmore Ayivor

#58. Are ya trying' to kill me, lass?"
"Kill you? No." Maggie leaned closer, her hands drifting up and cradling his face as she rolled her hips again in one wicked pass. "Torture you? Maybe.

Sara Humphreys

#59. If you are ambitious, you are running in a tunnel that never ends. You will always find something new to go after. [ ... ] I got high for the first time with Get Rich or Die Tryin' and I have been trying to achieve that feeling again since then, all the time.

Curtis Jackson

#60. ... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it... the most corrosive part of this amnesia is a sense that because the nation is not what it was, it can never be anything again.

Jeremy Paxman

#61. If the results don't scream: "Do this again!" Try something new.

Tony Robbins

#62. For the last time," she said urgently, almost desperately, as if trying to talk herself into believing it. "It's never going to happen again. Never,
Wade."
"Never is a long time.

Jill Shalvis

#63. The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.

Abby Sunderland

#64. the idea of trying to reconnect to humanity again filled him with the presentiment of exhaustion.

James S.A. Corey

#65. Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.

Harlan Coben

#66. You must ask for God's help. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#67. Again, don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions, go over, under, through.

Tina Fey

#68. Listen you..you.."he sputtered.
"You what ? You've already used hellion,draft girl and missy' .i can think of several more degradation,but then again im not the one trying so hard to be intimidating."
"How about you,maddending,foolish,moronic little chit ?"
"Much better !" she applauded.

Kate Noble

#69. I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

Jim Shepard

#70. I don't usually read reviews. I usually read the interviews, just because I figure it's a good way to try to do them better if I ever have to do them again.

Will Oldham

#71. I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again.

Aleksandra Mir

#72. I think the main thing is trying to be fair, sometimes there has to be a little bit of discipline, maybe even punishment involved in trying to make your child understand, learn from bad experiences and make sure they don't happen again.

Archie Manning

#73. If we stay together, I'll have to forgive you over and over again, and if you're still in this, you'll have to forgive me over and over again too. So forgiveness isn't the point. What I really should have been trying to figure out is whether we were still good for each other or not

Veronica Roth

#74. The gun dealer is not only paying these two police officers, but more importantly, the gun dealer has said he will never again sell more than one gun to a customer. This is exactly what we're trying to get the gun industry across the country to do.

Michael D. Barnes

#75. Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.

Gerald McRaney

#76. Needing to express what it's like here ... / Trying to digest the incoming stream ... / And dream it all over again.

Jay Woodman

#77. He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

Margaret Atwood

#78. If at first you don't succeed, try again. If it still doesn't work out, success may not be your thing.

Warren Miller

#79. I will try one hundred times to get up, and if I fail one hundred times. If I fail and I give up, will I ever get up? No! If I fail I'll try again, and again and again. But I want to tell you it's not the end.

Nick Vujicic

#80. My brother and I used to try to derail a train over and over again. We didn't know any better.

Carolyn Meinel

#81. I'd like to be my old self again but I'm still trying to find it

Taylor Swift

#82. Nobody gets tired of being the champions. We are still trying to go after the title again.

Maurice Hall

#83. We're not trying to harass the average American. We need to convert this now to a risk-based system, with TSA concentrating and focusing on intelligence, on security, setting up again the parameters of which we do this.

John Mica

#84. I've been up, down, trying to get the feeling again. All around, trying to get the feeling again. The one that makes me shiver, made my knees start to quiver.

Barry Manilow

#85. They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie ... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.

Ani DiFranco

#86. I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

Richard Pryor

#87. Iran said it will give up trying to make a nuclear weapon. But it got awkward when Iran said, 'But just for Lent. We'll start again on Monday.'

Jimmy Fallon

#88. I feel like the world stopped. And I got off ... and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a ... to get some kind of foothold on living

Jacqueline Woodson

#89. Life is a process of working out what's not working for you and disentangling yourself from it and trying then not walk into the same thing again. Watching your patterns and correcting them if you can.

Siobhan Fahey

#90. Staring at him the
way she might stare at a beloved place she
was not sure she would ever see again, trying
to commit the details to memory, to paint
them on the backs of her eyelids that she
might see it when she shut her eyes to sleep.

Cassandra Clare

#91. You have every right to hate me for this lifetime and many others. You have every right to never see me again. To spit on my grave. But tonight, now, I'm not going to give up on you or," his voice fell with weight, "die trying.

Karina Halle

#92. But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

Todd McFarlane

#93. "30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.

Tina Fey

#94. 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

#95. For the young, death is an enemy they wish to try their strength against. For those of us a little older, she is an old friend, an old lover, but one we are not eager to meet again soon.

Robert Jordan

#96. And there you go again, that tone in your voice, never a word out of place, but your tone says clearly, 'You are a fucking psycho bitch and I hate you.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#97. I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

Marc Forster

#98. I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

Maria Mitchell

#99. If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.

Richard Stallman

#100. I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play was called The Commons Of Pensacola. It was at MTC [Manhattan Theatre Club] with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. It was kind of like a riff on Ruth Madoff.

Amanda Peet