Trying But Failing Quotes

#1. Gods damn you, LOcke,'she whispered. The corners of her eyes glistened.
'Twice now? Look, uh, if I said the wrong thing
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'No,' she said, wiping at her eyes, trying but failing to do so nonchalantly. 'No, the trouble is you said the right thing.

Scott Lynch

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

Jess C. Scott

#3. 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

#4. She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to

Ann Brashares

#5. Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative."
"Which is?"
"Not even trying." Now he did look at me, straight on. "Life's short, you know?

Sarah Dessen

#6. But I think for the first time in my life, something has mattered enough for me to take a chance. I'm way more terrified of losing you than I ever could be of trying and failing.

Penelope Ward

#7. The sin God rebukes is not trying and failing, but failing to try.

Henry Cloud

#8. All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

Michelangelo Antonioni

#9. He saw now the ways in which they tried to be careful with each other, afraid of hitting those raw places where they might hurt each other almost without trying. But sparing another person is a tricky thing. It's easy to think you're succeeding when you're failing spectacularly.

Holly Black

#10. Fail big if you have to, but go down trying.

Margaret Haddix

#11. I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.

Mat McNerney

#12. We don't realise that we are actually perfect just the way we are. We are born perfect, but spend a lifetime trying to be something we are not, and then feel inadequate for failing. Your only purpose is to BE YOURSELF, otherwise you will deprive the universe of who you came here to be.

Anita Moorjani

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

Henry Cloud

#14. What he wanted was Megan wanting him ... but not needing him. Not vulnerable to him. Sure as help not trying to leave him over and over again ... and simply failing.

Mira Lyn Kelly

#15. There is nothing left but the attempt and not trying is the same as failing.

Mark Miller

#16. 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

#17. The one thing that scares me the most is failing. It scares me that one day I won't be at this level. But while I'm here and while I'm having success early, I'm trying to do everything to stay on this level.

Terrell Davis

#18. Failing doesn't make us a failure. But not trying to do better, to be better, does make us fools.

Wes Moore

#19. Perhaps someone would say I had no choice but to trust her and perhaps this is true, but also, and I understand this now, I love her and I loved her in that rare way, that non-possessive and accepting way that it seems people are always trying and failing to love someone...

Catherine Lacey

#20. To give up on a person you care for who is trying and failing is a bad thing, but to cut ties with an individual who is giving zero effort, yet doing a number on your heart makes sense.

Christopher Hudspeth

#21. Trying," he said at last, "is good. It always is. But failing? Everyone fails, one time or another. It's how you deal with failure that counts, in the end. It's the successes that you're known for-but it's the failures make you what you are.

Michelle Sagara West

#22. To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

Karen White

#23. Fathers and sons and brothers, all of us tall and strong and failing. But all of us trying.

Sam Lansky

#24. When you recognize that failing doesn't make you a failure, you give yourself permission to try all sorts of things.

Lauren Fleshman

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

#26. We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Joyce Meyer

#27. I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn't really care.

Jean Rhys

#28. 35 "Everyone has a dream, a vision, a goal and a desire. Just because we have bigger dreams than others doesn't mean they don't have one. Sometimes we just too lazy to make it happen or are scared of failing."

But trying is better than not doing anything at all.

Kcat Yarza