Emily Giffin Quotes

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

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

We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.

Failure is always an option.

Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.

You've got to be prepared to lose before you can win.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

I'll put it like this: When I was in high school, I would never win a popularity contest back then... it was always somebody else that got picked first for whatever reason. But all those people that went before me usually dropped the ball... then I'd get my shot.

It's better to have tried and failed than never tried, you can rest easy knowing you gave it a go.

Good or bad day, or good play or bad play, or whatever it is. You have a chance to get back up and begin again, It's something that's really stuck with me.

Don't let people make you afraid of taking chances in life. And if you fail, it's no big deal. Get back up and fight through it and be successful again. If you did it once, you can do it again.

I'm not afraid of failure.

I'm not afraid to fail - at all.

Nobody gets as many chances as I got.

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

It's easier to have a go at something again when you failed at it as you've got nowt to lose.

Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.

In the months that follow you bend to the work, because it feels like hope, like grace--and because you know in your lying cheater's heart that sometimes a start is all we ever get.

If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.