100+ Try and Try Again Quotes to Inspire Perseverance and Success

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins

“Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Liane Cardenas

“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.” – Og Mandino

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

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

“Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day.” – Alice Morse Earle

“You haven't failed until you've given up.” – John Wooden

“If you're going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman

“When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.” – Unknown

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

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

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein

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

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

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

“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

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

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

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

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

“The most successful people are those who are not afraid to fail.” – Robert Kiyosaki

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

“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates

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

“Opportunities don't happen. You create them.” – Chris Grosser

“I feared failing, then I realized failing is part of succeeding.” – Sara Blakely

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk.” – Mark Zuckerberg

“Creativity takes courage.” – Henri Matisse

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” – Maya Angelou

“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.” – Pablo Picasso

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

“Art is born of the struggle, not the ease.” – Vincent van Gogh

“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent van Gogh

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“I have had more failures than successes in my creative life, but each taught me something vital.” – Frida Kahlo

“The first draft of anything is shit.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem

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

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

“Champions are made when no one is watching.” – Kobe Bryant

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” – Tim Notke

“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

“Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” – Napoleon Hill

“The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is by losing.” – Ernie Banks

“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.” – Vince Lombardi

“Excellence is never an accident; it’s a commitment.” – Serena Williams

“Pressure is a privilege.” – Billie Jean King

“I didn’t lose. I either won or learned.” – Nelson Mandela

“The only thing greater than fear is faith.” – Tom Brady

“Dream big, work hard, stay focused, and surround yourself with good people.” – Usain Bolt

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

“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” – Bill Cosby

“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” – Albert Szent-Györgyi

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…’” – Isaac Asimov

“We learn more from failure than from success.” – Marie Curie

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein

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

“Every great mistake is a milestone on the path to discovery.” – Ray Bradbury

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” – Thomas Edison

“Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.” – Henri Poincaré

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

“Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“The moment you’re ready to quit is usually the moment right before the miracle happens.” – Unknown

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice.” – Bob Marley

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

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” – Rikki Rogers

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli

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

“You have power over your mind—not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Do something today that your future self will thank you for.” – Unknown

“Small steps in the right direction can turn out to be the biggest step of your life.” – Unknown

“I’m not lazy, I’m just conserving energy for my next attempt.” – Unknown

“I tried yoga once. Fell off the mat. Then I tried again. Fell off again. Now I call it ‘air gymnastics.’” – Unknown

“I failed my diet. But I succeeded in proving how much cake I can eat in one sitting.” – Unknown

“I told my computer I needed a break and now it won’t stop crashing.” – Unknown

“I’m not a procrastinator. I’m just extremely motivated to wait.” – Unknown

“I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.” – Benjamin Franklin (paraphrased)

“My motivation wakes up later than I do.” – Unknown

“I don’t make mistakes. I execute unexpected experiments.” – Unknown

“I tried to organize my thoughts. They filed for divorce.” – Unknown

“I gave up on my dream of becoming a chef. Too much sauté pressure.” – Unknown

“I’m not clumsy. The floor just hates me, gravity attacks me, and walls move suddenly.” – Unknown

“I tried to be normal once. Worst two minutes of my life.” – Unknown

“The obstacle is the path.” – Zen Proverb

“To be content is a victory which we must conquer daily.” – François de La Rochefoucauld

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

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

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

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” – Viktor E. Frankl

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

“No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” – Carl Jung

“Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.” – Viktor E. Frankl

“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose them.” – Rollo May

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

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” – Joseph Campbell

“Fail fast. Learn faster.” – Silicon Valley Mantra

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

“Hustle until your haters ask if you’re hiring.” – Unknown

“Wake up with determination. Go to bed with satisfaction.” – Unknown

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

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

“Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done.” – Unknown

“Grind now. Shine later.” – Unknown

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” – Steve Martin

“Make your fear of failure worse than your fear of not trying.” – Mel Robbins

“You were born to be real, not perfect.” – Unknown

“Progress > perfection.” – Unknown