James Brown Quotes

Things hardly ever work on the first try. We'll make another, a better one.

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

No mistake or failure is as bad as to stop and not try again.

It's not OK to fail. It's that things can fail and absolutely will go wrong - just keep trying, keep trying, keep trying.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

If I fail, I try again, and again, and again

If children gave up when they fell for the first time, they would never learn to walk.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

You have to do it and do it, until you get it right.

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

Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.

If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.

There is always time for failure.

Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

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

With failure, you just try again.

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.

Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.

I don't get everything right the first time.