Georges St-Pierre Quotes

Better to try and fail than not to try at all

The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Remember, the greatest failure is not to try.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 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.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

Failing passionately is a success in its own right.

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

For me, failure is not a bad thing because it teaches you how to succeed.

I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

You cannot achieve success without the risk of failure. And I learned a long time ago, you cannot achieve success, if you fear failure. If you're not afraid to fail, man, you have a chance to succeed. But you're never gonna get there unless you risk it, all the way. I'll risk failure. Sometimes, half the fun is failing. Learning from your mistakes, waking up the next morning, and saying 'Okay. Watch out. Here I come again. A little bit smarter, licking my wounds, and really not looking forward to getting my ass kicked the way I just did yesterday.' So now, I'm just a little more dangerous.

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?

The only way to fail for me is just not to try.

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.