Try But Fail Quotes

#1. It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.

David Limbaugh

#2. I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.

Garry Kasparov

#3. One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

Bill Rancic

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

John Quincy Adams

#5. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Brigitte Trinkle

#6. 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

#7. 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.

Max Lucado

#8. It is hard to get animals which normally pay little attention to each other to do things together. One can teach dolphins to jump simultaneously out of the water precisely because they show similar behavior spontaneously, but try to make two domestic cats jump together and you will fail.

Frans De Waal

#9. I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.

Dorianne Laux

#10. I couldn't prevent my own child from becoming a casualty of war, but I may be able to help prevent another child from becoming one. I'd rather fail at the attempt than not try at all.

Dawn Willson

#11. I try not to think in terms of what poems or poets should do. Most of us appreciate a wide diversity in music, in cooking, in movies, but in our own medium, poetry, we often fail to make allowances for tastes and projects other than our own.

James Arthur

#12. As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.

Uday Kotak

#13. 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

#14. We try to explain how we feel, but there aren't always the right words or the words we have fail. But with music, you can hear a piece and say, Yeah, that's it. That's exactly how I feel.

Carrie Arcos

#15. You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

Queen Latifah

#16. In the words of Madame Leota in the film The Haunted Mansion, 'You try, you fail, you try, you fail, but the only true failure is when you stop trying

Carrie Hope Fletcher

#17. It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?

Nicholas Sparks

#18. Life is like a game if you fail try again until you master and accomplish, but remember if you accomplish it glorify God who created you and gives you strength.

Daniel Habil

#19. I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail.

Geri Halliwell

#20. The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.

Jess C. Scott

#21. 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

#22. This life will try to break you; the people around you will fail you; but God is for you. When you take your identity out of the hands of man and place it in the heart of God, you will find what you've been looking for.

Tammy Strait

#23. It was actually the movie 'Rushmore' that made me first realize that I could try writing, but 'Cheers' is the best show ever. The writers on that show created a relationship that writers today still fail to rip off successfully: the Sam and Diane.

Anders Holm

#24. If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

Bernard Williams

#25. Some people will try to talk you out of chasing your goals; not because they think you'll fail, but because they are scared you'll succeed.

Steve Maraboli

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Try and fail, but never fail to try!

Jared Leto

#29. We must experiment, fail, and try again, but beginning with a critique of legal reform and a commitment to center the most vulnerable moves us away from some of the most common, obvious pitfalls of neoliberal social movement strategies.

Dean Spade

#30. 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

#31. Many people try to avoid looking back. To be sure, there is a wrong way to look back; it is wrong to look back at past sins and failures and defeats. That can only make you fail even more today. But it is good to look back to see where we have been and what the Lord has done in us and through us.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#32. Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Barack Obama

#33. If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.

Edward Lampert

#34. Next time you try to do something and fail, and it really was partly in your control, be honest about
why you failed--but also, what you can do better in the future. It's easy to see that blaming
circumstance robs you of opportunities to learn.

Rohvannyn Shaw

#35. We need to substitute 'trier' for failure. The word 'fail' is closely related to the word fall. A child taking his first step falls, cries and then tries again. Why does he try again? Because he wants to, but does not, know the meaning of failure.

Anup Kochhar

#36. People frequently fail when they try to do everything at once. They approach a massive project and quickly get discouraged. Taking small, but high-value steps takes less time, and you learn more in the long run.

Tim Ferriss

#37. Again and again we try to escape ourselves, but we fail in our efforts, constantly run our heads into the wall because we don't want to recognize that we can't escape ourselves, except in death. Now

Thomas Bernhard

#38. I do have a feeling that I may fail. But wait, be it only after I try.

Abhijit Haldar

#39. It's the same for most of us but one of the best things I learned was to stay out of the bars and also to try to stay off the street. I fail sometimes to stay off the streets but not too often. the finest place on earth to drink is in your own place and alone. you probably know all this. all right.

Charles Bukowski

#40. I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

Cameron Dokey

#41. It is painful to fail. But it is far sadder when a storyteller stops wanting to try.

Orson Scott Card

#42. Whatever necessities you require, work to get them. If you fail to get something, then smile and try again in a different way. If you succeed, then enjoy what you get, but without attachment.

William Hart

#43. A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.

Jaha Knight

#44. Never be afraid to try. The only angle through which you can approach success is by the "try-angle". You may fail if you try, but shame unto you if you don't try at all. If you fail ... rise up and try again and again!

Israelmore Ayivor

#45. To truly fail in life is to never try. When you fall on your face, it is an opportunity for you to find the road again. It may remind you how hard the road is, but you will never forget its presence once you make contact.

H.L. Stephens

#46. Nothing beats a fail but a try.

Zane

#47. I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films but in helping shape me into a writer as well. In improv, you will fail sometimes, so it teaches you to be brave and try anything. The worst that can happen is nobody laughs.

Carly Craig

#48. 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

#49. Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

Martha Beck

#50. I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#51. Dear Meg," I said. "I can't be sure about Lityerses. But I think we must try. We only fail when we stop trying.

Rick Riordan

#52. I don't know, I can't quite get it."
"Don't try. It's just words."
"Just words?"
"Just words! We love them so much, you and me. But in the end, they fail us. Because there are truths beyond words.

Aidan Chambers

#53. 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

#54. You shouldn't be afraid to take risks. It might not always work out, you might fail miserably and get hurt, but you'll never know unless you try. And if it does work, wouldn't it have been worth it?

J.M. Darhower

#55. I want a more difficult life, that's all. What I really want is a first-rate life. I may not get it, but the only chance I have lies in getting out of a second-rate life. I may fail completely, but I do want to try. It's to do with me, not you; so don't worry.

Julian Barnes

#56. When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.

Dinah Maria Mulock

#57. If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

Kina Grannis

#58. It makes sense to invest in new work. It's almost like having a research department in a scientific laboratory. You have to try things out. You'll make some bad mistakes. Some things will fail but at least you'll energise the organisation.

Gavin Bryars

#59. This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

David Niven

#60. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

#61. Nobodys life ever goes according to plan.
So why do we keep on planning?
Because that's how we know who we are. By what we intend to be. By what we try to become.
And fail.
I don't say 'fail'. I saw we aim and miss. But we still hit something.

Orson Scott Card

#62. It's okay to be scared, and it's okay to fail. But you have to try. Not trying isn't an option.

Jessica Bendinger

#63. The most self-damaging words in the English language are: try, might, and if. These are words of uncertainty. Will you fail? That is possible. But continue doubting your abilities and you'll never succeed.

Dannika Dark

#64. Can I do it? I'd rather not try and fail.
That's stupid talk Maya. Every try will not succeed. But if you're going to live, live at all, your business is trying ... You fail, you get up and try again.

Maya Angelou

#65. Those who try may not fail; but those who fail will not try.

Ivy Yuelle

#66. Your repressed feelings desperately try to climb to the surface but fail to do so, and in therapy we seek to reveal -- to uncloak, if you will -- these unconscious desires, the things that your mind tries to repress, those secrets of your soul.

Allan Dare Pearce

#67. Try to let what is unfair teach you ... what is unfair can be a stern but invaluable teacher ... you can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard.

David Foster Wallace

#68. The point is that, whenever we propose a solution to a problem, we ought to try as hard as we can to overthrow our solution, rather than defend it. Few of us, unfortunately, practice this precept; but other people, fortunately, will supply the criticism for us if we fail to supply it ourselves.

Karl Popper

#69. How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.

Josh Gad

#70. Sometimes you have to fail in order to succeed. Whether we want it or not, there is an order in the universe. It's hard to understand and many, many times it's hard to swallow, but it's there and our choices are our own. Failure is part of life and no one can succeed every time they try something.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#71. 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

#72. Some days, I think maybe we should try and be a little more conventional, but every time I try, I fail, so I'm learning to not even entertain that thought anymore.

Seinabo Sey

#73. If you haven't done something amazing, don't forget to try. the worst that can happen is you fail, and then you can just try again until you succeed. those words don't work on me now, but just try to remember them

Esther Earl

#74. I think a lot of us think we've failed when we've put the weight back on, but when this happens. you have to pay attention because you can actually learn something. You didn't fail. You just need to stay conscious and know where you went wrong and try again.

Jessie Pavelka

#75. I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

John Cleese

#76. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

John Cassavetes

#77. It matters not if we fail, but I need you to at least try, because then you can forgive yourself. Regrets will keep you chasing demons for the rest of your life.

O.E. Boroni

#78. Your home needs to be a place where your kids can fail - and learn from their failure. Surround them with love, show them how important they are to you, but don't try to undo their failures. It's not our job as parents to get our kids off the hook.

Kevin Leman

#79. When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!

Edgar Guest

#80. To do something familiar and succeed is no surprise, but to try something new and fail--why, that is the start of an adventure.

Maryrose Wood

#81. We have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they're workable is to try to make them fail. If we fail to fail, then maybe we're on the right track.

Orson Scott Card