100+ Inspiring 'Try Try Again' Quotes to Motivate Your Journey

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” – Sam Levenson

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill

“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” – Thomas Edison

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Edison

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth

“I haven’t seen a problem yet that didn’t have a solution if you kept trying.” – Henry Ford

“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay

“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” – Steve Jobs

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. But it's better to fail than to do nothing.” – Steve Jobs

“The hard thing isn’t dreaming big. It’s waking up and doing something about it.” – Elon Musk

“Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.” – Elon Musk

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

“If you don’t give up, you still have a chance.” – Jack Ma

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” – Muhammad Ali

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened.” – Helen Keller

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six 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.” – Michael Jordan

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” – Muhammad Ali

“Champions aren’t made when they win. They are made when they have to fight to be one.” – Serena Williams

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

“Never give up. Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.” – Jim Valvano

“It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort.” – Jillian Michaels

“Winning means you’re willing to go longer, work harder, and give more than anyone else.” – Vince Lombardi

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” – Jimmy Johnson

“I’ve failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” – Michael Jordan

“Success isn’t accidental. It’s hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing.” – Pelé

“Pressure is a privilege.” – Billie Jean King

“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.” – Michael Jordan

“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” – David Rockefeller

“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estée Lauder

“Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” – Steve Jobs

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“If you're not failing, you're not innovating enough.” – Elon Musk

“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Dream big. Start small. Act now.” – Robin Sharma

“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier

“Mistakes are proof that you are trying.” – Jennifer Lim

“Failure is simply another opportunity to start again, this time more wisely.” – Henry Ford

“There is no failure except in no longer trying.” – Elbert Hubbard

“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.” – Thomas Edison

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – Henry Ford

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.” – C.S. Lewis

“A stumble may prevent a fall.” – English Proverb

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“Errors are not in the art but in men's minds.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure, it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.” – Robert Kiyosaki

“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.” – Eloise Ristad

“Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.” – Napoleon Hill

“Encourage children to believe in themselves and keep trying.” – Fred Rogers

“Children need models more than they need critics.” – Joseph Joubert

“Praise effort, not intelligence. A child learns to fear challenges when praised solely for being smart.” – Carol Dweck

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look but don’t tell you what to see.” – Alexandra K. Trenfor

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Every child deserves a champion—an adult who will never give up on them.” – Rita Pierson

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.” – Hebrew Proverb

“A parent’s love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.” – Marion C. Garretty

“Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.” – W.E.B. Du Bois

“Success in teaching comes not from perfection, but from persistence.” – Unknown

“Teach the children well, their fate is always ours.” – Margaret Mead

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.” – Seneca

“I will prepare and someday my chance will come.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.” – Molière

“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Out of difficulties grow miracles.” – Jean de La Bruyère

“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Though the road’s been rocky, I gotta keep dancing.” – Tina Turner

“Your vibe attracts your tribe. Stay positive, stay persistent.” – Unknown

“Progress over perfection.” – Unknown

“Hustle in silence. Let success make the noise.” – Unknown

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

“Small steps still move mountains.” – Unknown

“Consistency > Intensity.” – Unknown

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The comeback is always stronger than the setback.” – Unknown

“Be the energy you want to attract.” – Unknown

“Rise and grind. The world rewards action.” – Unknown

“You’re not behind. Your journey is yours alone.” – Unknown

“One day or day one? You decide.” – Unknown

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” – John Steinbeck

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.” – Emily Dickinson

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – D.H. Sidebottom

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo

“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies… But still, like air, I’ll rise.” – Maya Angelou

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi

“After the storm, the rainbow. After pain, peace.” – Unknown

“Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Dylan Thomas

“We told ourselves stories in order to live.” – Joan Didion

“Light finds its way even through the smallest crack.” – Haruki Murakami

“Begin anywhere.” – John Cage