is it better to try and fail than never to try at all?

Question

is it better to try and fail than never to try at all?

Answer 1

yes, it's always good to take chances.

Answer 2

It depends on what your goal is.



If your goal is to make a sports team and you don't make the cut, you haven't really lost anything but sweat. If you do make the team, you can enjoy achieving the goal. If you never try out for the team, you will be left wondering if you could've and maybe regretting it if the team does well. So in this case, it's better to try and fail than to never try.



If your goal is to have your own successful business, you take the risks of investing in it and you make it a success, then you can enjoy the fruits of your labor. If you make the investment and your business fails, you will have lost a lot of money, which can lead to losing many other things (house, car, wife & family). If you never try to make that business, you could be left wondering "what if", but that's a lot better than losing everything you had. In this case, it's better to never try at all than to try and fail.



Of course, foresight is never 20/20. We can't know beforehand whether or not we will fail in trying to reach a reasonable goal.

Answer 3

I know this is a question that has been around for a long time, but it is still true. Take going to college. I left home at 17 for college. I was not a wild person, but liked to dance instead of study. I finally got my degree 23 years later, so yeah, I learned that from experience. You better believe when I was an adult with 2 kids and leaving a husband home without transportation, I had better do a whole lot better the second time around---which I did! :O)) Grams

Answer 4

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Citizenship in a Republic,"

Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

Answer 5

If you never try you have failed before you started. It is always better to try. The first time you tried to walk, I'm sure you fell down like everyone else, I. E. Failed. Everything is like that, if you never try you will never grow as a person..

Answer 6

Yes because you can learn something from failing...



ask Thomas Edison...he was the greatest at failing



"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. "



"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. "



Just a couple quotes from the man...this man was a true success and he knew that failing was a step forward towards success.

Answer 7

Depends on the stakes. Some failures are fatal, so you need to pick those battles carefully. If "there's not harm trying" then by all means, give it a shot. But once the risk level goes up, then its time to do a risk/benefit/chance of success analysis to determine if it's worth it.

Answer 8

Yup!! You never know what you can do if you don't try, & if you don't, you live with the regret of "woulda, shoulda, coulda." Got a friend that wanted to drive a truck, was successful at getting his CDL, drove for 4yrs, then, retired. If he would die today, he would be a happy man for living his dream.

Answer 9

Yes, if for no other reason than to learn a lesson or gain an experience, even to simply have a heck of a story to tell. If you do nothing, never try, than you have paralyzed your life....

Answer 10

there is a saying

"something is better than nothing".

so, it doesn't matter whether u pass or fail..give a try.

participating is important than winning.

Answer 11

How could you had known that you will fail?

:)

Answer 12

It's even better to try and succeed.

Answer 13

Those who improve have not failed.

Those who try shall improve.

Answer 14

yep because if you try you could be really good at it

Answer 15

That's the way it is ?

Answer 16

of course.

Answer 17

"Do, or do not. There is no try."

-- Yoda