John Wooden Quotes

Success is never final, but failure can be.

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

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

Lots of times I'm not crazy about the writing, but I keep moving ahead and somehow it gets better. The important thing is to move forward.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It's about turning up the next day and doing it again.

Success is 99 percent failure.

Sometimes women get devastated by failing. Athletes don't; they just know that means they've got to practise harder, and they've got to do something else differently.

I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.

If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I'm going to show everybody, I'm going to work hard to get better and better.

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

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

With failure, you just try again.

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.