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If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason for trying to succeed.
Sep 13, 2025
That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
I'm not trying to succeed for the people who are waiting for me to fail. I'm doing it for myself. I'm one for the 'You only live once so you should do as much as you can' sort of thing.
The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.
Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)
The way you succeed at all this stuff is by stopping trying to succeed and just working very hard without thinking about it, just trusting, completely. It's that faith that creates the bridge on which you walk across to eternity.
In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Confidence allows you to progress in something you're attempting to accomplish, whether it's playing basketball or baseball or whether it's trying to succeed in business.
The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of 'nothing attempted, nothing gained' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
If at first you don't succeed, try hard work.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
If at first you don't succeed, try management.
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
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