Trying And Failing Quotes

You learn by trying and failing. Just a lot of hard work and mistakes.

I think, generally, most people can't maintain anything that's particularly strict for very long. I watch people trying and failing to do that a lot.

I started writing the book without realizing I was writing a book. That sounds stupid, but it's true. I'd been trying and failing to make a different manuscript work, and I thought I was just taking a break by writing some short stories. I'm not a very good short story writer - the amazing compression that is required for short stories doesn't come easily to me. But anyway, I thought I'd try to write some short stories. And a structure took shape - I stumbled upon it.

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson

The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

The only time you mustn't fail is the last time you try.

Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

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

You never fail until you stop trying.

America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.