Bret McKenzie Quotes

When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.

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.

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

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've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

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.

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

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

We try, and we try, and we fail; and then we go deeper.

If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.

If we fail, let us try again and again until we succeed.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Whatever we succeed in doing is a transformation of something we have failed to do. Thus, when we fail, it is only because we have given up.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

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

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.