If You Don't Succeed Quotes & Sayings

If at first you don't succeed, try to eat a big lunch and take a nap ... er wait, no ... #badadvice — Jayce O'Neal

If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0. — Various

In America, if you succeed, you don't have to apologize. In Italy, success is envied, and envy is the worst, worst, worst thing in the world. It's easy for me to say because I have had more than many others, but at the end of the day, I have never envied anyone. I wish to no one that they waste their time envying anyone else. — Lapo Elkann

Try till you succeed ... if you don't succeed once, then destroy all evidence of the fact that you tried! — W.C. Fields

If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do ... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed ... No task is too menial. — Elon Musk

Do you believe you can know yourselves if you don't somehow con- struct yourselves? Or that I can know you if I don't construct you in my way? And can you know me if I don't construct you in my way? We can know only what we succeed in giving form to. — Luigi Pirandello

I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed. — William Kamkwamba

Q: What is a baby's motto? A: If at first you don't succeed, cry, cry again. Q: — Rob Elliott

You can't fail if you don't quit.
You can't succeed if you don't start. — Michael Hyatt

If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations — Jonathan Tropper

It takes a lot more than just knowing how to put an outfit together to succeed in the fashion industry, so more power to you if this is where you want to be; just don't expect it to be an extended trip to the mall. — Sophia Amoruso

Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell. — Eric Bolling

If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner. — Bruce Fordyce

Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I don't believe that anymore-this is not to say that you should strive for a high level of stupidity. My point is that luck is a big part of many successes, so (a) don't get too bummed out when you see a bozo succeed; and (b) luck favors the people who try stuff, not simply think and analyze. As the Chinese say, "One must wait for a long time with your mouth open before a Peking duck flies in your mouth." — Guy Kawasaki

If you do keep trying, there is no guarantee that you will succeed, but if you don't keep trying, it is absolutely guaranteed that you will not succeed. — Denny Emerson

One of the surprising things that Brezhnev said when we were in our talks, was - when I proposed that we make these changes in nuclear weaponry, he said, "God will never forgive us if we don't succeed." And, you know, coming from the leader of an atheistic communist country, this surprised everyone. — Jimmy Carter

I hate seeing people that look like you. Especially if God's living by the motto 'If at first you don't succeed.' — Demetri Martin

Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in. — Aristotle Onassis

If you hold to the adage, If at first you don't succeed, try try again, sky diving may not be your ideal sport. — J.E. Thompson

If you don't give up, you will succeed. But you don't have to believe me; you have to believe yourself. — Ben Tolosa

If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you. — Christopher Titus

Gosh darn it," Gau said, "if you don't try, you'll never succeed." 10. — Malcolm Gladwell

If at first you don't succeed, use more force the second time. — Me

If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. When you are wisely ambitious, you do everything you can to succeed, but you are not attached to the outcome - so that if you fail, you will be maximally resilient, able to get up, dust yourself off, and get back in the fray. — Dan Harris

If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like. — Napoleon Hill

If you don't place yourself where you could fail, you'd never have a place from where you'd succeed. — Dumebi Onwordi-Okonji

If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you are surrounded by people who not only don't believe in your goals and your positive outlook on life, but who also continually try to tear you down, it will be extremely challenging for you to hold firmly in mind that you will succeed and that you can be happy. — Chris Prentiss

If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you. — Steven Wright

If at first you don't succeed, you're doing it wrong. Learn from the experience. Try again, but with a different approach. — Steve Maraboli

Believe me, young lady, when I tell you that there is no place for you in his world of ghosts and nightmares - no place for your fresh beauty or your unmarred dreams, no place for your wonderful hope. He can bring you nothing, because he has lost everything. Don't try to keep him, to tie him down, because if you succeed, if he weakens, he will hate you for it. Let him be. He is not unhappy; he is resigned. He has surrendered and acquired at a high cost a deep understanding of life. — Hannah Fielding

If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. — Alan Lewis

I work hard, so I surround myself with people that work just as hard. It's important if you want to create a successful brand. Also, the concept of being "tired" doesn't really apply to me. In fact, I don't even consider "tired" tired. If you want to succeed and be successful, you can't let it bother you. — Damon Dash

If you fail, never give up.
Keep trying, you will succeed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special." — Laurie Anderson

If you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure. — George W. Bush

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to. — Moliere

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top. — Chili Davis

If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit! — Little Richard

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes, people think that if they don't display great talent and have some success right away, they won't succeed. But writing is about struggling through and learning and finding out what it is about writing itself that you really love. — Laura Kasischke

Do not blame anyone if at last you don't succeed because, your brain is solely responsible for this since this is where every seed of resolution will germinate. — Israelmore Ayivor

If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. — Quentin Crisp

If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain. — Matt Groening

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is NOT for you. (BUMPER STICKER) — Darynda Jones

Unlike in school, in life you don't have to come up with all the right answers. You can ask the people around you for help - or even ask them to do the things you don't do well. In other words, there is almost no reason not to succeed if you take the attitude of 1) total flexibility - good answers can come from anyone or anywhere (and in fact, as I have mentioned, there are far more good answers 'out there' than there are in you) and 2) total accountability: regardless of where the good answers come from, it's your job to find them. — Ray Dalio

If you want to lift a hundred pounds, you don't expect to succeed the first time. You start with a lighter weight and work up little by little. You actually fail to life a hundred pounds, every day, until the day you succeed. But it is in the days when you are exerting yourself that the growth is occurring. — Norman Doidge

Striving is fine, as long as it's tempered by the realization that, in an entropic universe, the final outcome is out of your control. If you don't waste your energy on variables you cannot influence, you can focus much more effectively on those you can. When you are wisely ambitious, you do everything you can to succeed, but you are not attached to the outcome - so that if you fail, you will be maximally resilient, able to get up, dust yourself off, and get back in the fray. That, to use a loaded term, is enlightened self-interest. — Dan Harris

Like my father told me, if at first you don't succeed, try again. And again. And again. But after that, give up. It's no good being stubborn. — Bryce C. Anderson

If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers. — Jerry Lawler

If at first you don't succeed, blame someone else and hide behind a bush. — Peter James West

You have no reason to give up if you haven't tried all steps in the world yet! Try again if at first you don't succeed; Try no other option; Just try again with a better approach! — Israelmore Ayivor

If at first you don't succeed, give up. — Homer

To succeed perseverance yells "pain to gain".
If you don't take heed, you'll end up slain! — Manuela George-Izunwa

The moment you choose your vision, great confliction comes along. You have confliction even if you don't choose the vision. Our soul grows not by living life within a small confliction, but rather living with big conflictions inside a big vision. A soul with a vision can succeed. — Ilchi Lee

I define success by personal growth; if you don't continue to grow, you can't continue to succeed. — Tabatha Coffey

If at first you don't succeed, put your feet up and drink wine. — Me

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again. — Laurence J. Peter

If you don't have a personal definition of success, chances are you will succeed at the wrong thing. You'll get to the end of your life and realize that you spelled success wrong. And if you spell it wrong, you'll get it wrong. — Mark Batterson

Tis a lesson you should heed:Try, try, try again.If at first you don't succeed,Try, try, try again.[2] — William Edward Hickson

Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head - even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be. — Malcolm Gladwell

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point. — Randall Munroe

So when you approach any individual, make sure you realize that he will do what he wants to do. Don't laugh at his choices; investigate them to better understand what he's trying to accomplish.
If you wish to trade, you will have to offer the person something he wants more than what he has already. It's his resources you are seeking. He will control their use. You will have to be in tune with his desires or there will be no exchange.
The consumer is the object of the whole process. And he chooses in terms that are meaningful to him (not to you). You will succeed only as you find ways to satisfy him. — Harry Browne

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

A lot of people are afraid to succeed and don't want to fail but if you don't attempt, aren't you already failing in the same spot? — Behdad Sami

Throughout life, people will try to shake your faith in yourself. When this happens, remind yourself that the only way they can succeed is if you allow it. When you walk down the street of life, always hold your head high and keep walking. Don't ever let anyone shake your faith in yourself, because that's really all that you have. — Sherry Argov

If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss. — Kirk Kirkpatrick

If at first you don't succeed, then maybe you have the wrong idea of success, or you're using the wrong standard of measuring it. — Tristan Sherwin

If at first you don't succeed, tweak it before you toss it. — Todd Stocker

If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me. — Madonna Ciccone

If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier. — Leo Szilard

Do you feel disappointed because something you planned didn't work out If so you can get re-appointed today. In God there are never any dead-ends only detours. Don't ever give up. Just keep trying until you succeed. — Joyce Meyer

If you have something Negative to say, then, say it in a Positive way. Don't set out to hurt people or their careers. We all deserve a fighting chance to succeed at what we do. — Patsy Whittle

I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to succeed. I need to be interested in things outside my sport, and I need to meet new people. For me, judo is an expression of the harmony I achieve in my life. — Ryoko Tani

I have found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth. Harder than fighting in a war, harder than taking part in a revolution.
"If you try it, you will find that at times sweat will break upon you. You will find that even if you succeed in discounting the attitudes of others to you and your life, you must wrestle with yourself most of all. Fight with yourself. Because there will surge up in you a strong desire to alter facts, to dress up your feelings.
"You'll find that there are many things you don't want to admit about yourself and others.
"As your record shapes itself, an awed wonder haunts you. And yet there is no more exciting an adventure than trying to be honest in this way. The clean, strong feeling that sweeps you when you've done it makes you know that. — Richard Wright

If people don't feel they've got your attention, you're not going to succeed. — Ben Elliot

If at first you don't succeed, think about it. — Mark McCarrell

If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances. — Kin Hubbard

If you're a salesman, you have to deal with yourself the way you are. Not how you'd like to be.
If you don't have what it takes, you can waste a lot of time asking yourself "How can I get what it takes?" The question you should be asking yourself is, "Is there something else that takes what I have to offer?" Because if there's something you can succeed at, just the way you are, you won't have to waste a lot of time trying to change yourself. Which you're never going to be able to do, anyway. — Helen DeWitt

Who do you want them to think you are? How do you think people see you? Or don't you let them near enough to see. You make up their minds for them. Do you think you succeed in convincing people that you are what you seem to be? You make people meet you on your own territory. You don't help them. You let them verbally hang themselves and then feel better about yourself, your power, your own sense of worth. You have the power to alienate them and if they allow it, you might even manage to make them feel awkward and foolish--foolish for letting you affect them at all. Do you want them to like you? Or are you one of those people who "don't care what people think." You're not living your life for them, so why should you give a fuck what people think? You make people come to you and, when they eventually do, you punish them with your smugness. Nothing ever out of character. — Carrie Fisher

If at first you don't succeed, remove all evidence you ever tried. — David Brent

Someday, sometime, you will be sitting somewhere. A berm overlooking a pond in Vermont. The lip of the Grand Canyon at sunset. A seat on the subway. And something bad will have happened: You will have lost someone you loved, or failed at something at which you badly wanted to succeed. And sitting there, you will fall into the center of yourself. You will look for some core to sustain you. And if you have been perfect all your life and have managed to meet all the expectations of your family, your friends, your community, your society, chances are excellent that there will be a black hole where that core ought to be. I don't want anyone I know to take that terrible chance. And the only way to avoid it is to listen to that small voice inside you that tells you to make mischief, to have fun, to be contrarian, to go another way. George Eliot wrote, 'It is never too late to be what you might have been.' It is never too early, either. — Anna Quindlen

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. — W.C. Fields

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

If at first you don't succeed - you haven't planned properly! — John Lock

Come out of the fog, young man. And remember you don't have to be a complete fool in order to succeed. Play the game, but don't believe in it--that much you owe yourself. Even if it lands you in a strait jacket or a padded cell. Play the game, but play it your own way--part of the time at least. Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate--I wish I had time to tell you only a fragment. — Ralph Ellison

If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha — Lisi Harrison

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. — George Carlin

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? — Charlie Sheen

If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already. — Laurence J. Peter

A thesis has to be presentable ... but don't attach too much importance to it. If you do succeed in the sciences, you will do later on better things and then it will be of little moment. If you don't succeed in the sciences, it doesn't matter at all. — Paul Ehrenfest

If at first you don't succeed--write more! — N.B. Williams

You know what they say. If at first you don't succeed, try the same thing again. Sometimes the effort is called persistence and is the mark of a strong will. Sometimes it's called perseveration and is a sign of immaturity. For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behavior is called ... policy. — Thomas King

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents. — Marcelene Cox

If at first you don't succeed, try hard work. — William Feather

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again. — Aaliyah

I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold. — Rankin

If you don't succeed the first time - you're about average — Frederick L. Coxen

It's a job. It's not a hobby. You don't write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it's just for an hour or so each day, you have to get a babysitter and make the time. If you're going to make writing succeed you have to approach it as a job. — Rosellen Brown

Don't give up...easy to say. But if you subscribe to this attitude you will always be in the position to succeed. — Jerry Gladstone

If at first you don't succeed, avoid skydiving. — Socrates