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If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents. -- Marcelene Cox
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer. -- Alan Lewis
If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving. -- Henny Youngman
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style. -- Quentin Crisp
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again. -- Michael Chang
If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. -- Steven Wright
If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. -- William Lyon Phelps
If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you. -- Mark Hoppus
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. -- W. C. Fields
As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what? -- Charlie Sheen
If at first you don't succeed, C4 -- Jamie Hyneman
If at first you don't succeed...run. -- Joey Comeau
If at first you don't succeed, give up. -- Homer
If you don't succeed at first, try pitching. -- Jack Harshman
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. -- George Carlin
If at first you don't succeed, try management. -- Stephen Hawking
If at first you don't succeed, avoid skydiving. -- Socrates
If at first you do succeed, try something harder. -- Ann Landers
If at first you don't succeed, Call an airstrike. -- Banksy
If at first you don't succeed, try hard work. -- William Feather
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again. -- Laurence J. Peter
If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen! -- Carol Ryrie Brink
If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss. -- Kirk Kirkpatrick
If at first you don't succeed, You're not an Alpha -- Lisi Harrison
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. -- William Edward Hickson
If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point. -- Randall Munroe
If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing. -- Warren Buffett
If at first you don't succeed, you're obviously not me. -- Madonna Ciccone
If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea... -- Peter Scott
If at first you do succeed don't take any more chances. -- Kin Hubbard
If at first you don't succeed, you can always become an ultramarathoner. -- Bruce Fordyce
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. -- Steven Wright
If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you. -- Christopher Titus
Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first. -- Billy Sunday
If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed. -- Curly Howard
Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth. -- John Milton
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself. -- Benjamin Franklin
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something. -- George Bernard Shaw
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. -- George Bernard Shaw
That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. -- Diana Wynne Jones
If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already. -- Laurence J. Peter
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. -- Anna Quindlen
I don't like sequels at all. If the movie's good the first time, why bother? -- Michael Lehmann
If at first you don't succeed, see if there is a prize for the losers. -- Jerry Lawler
If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain. -- Matt Groening
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -- Albert Einstein
If you do not act on a suggestion at first, you grow dull to its message. -- Robert Henri
Even if at first you do succeed, you still have to work hard to stay there. -- Richard C. Miller
His lips brushed against mine. Delicately at first, almost testing to see if this was real. -- Amanda Hocking
If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all. -- Archer John Porter Martin
If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful. -- Kevin Hart
If, after the first twenty minutes, you don't know who the sucker at the table is, it's you. -- David Levien
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried. -- Billy Collins
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them. -- Kazuo Ishiguro
If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong. -- Leo Rosten
And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight. -- Chuck Palahniuk
If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker. -- Mike McDermott
At my first Masters, I got the feeling, that if I didn't play well, I wouldn't go to heaven. -- Dave Marr
To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games. -- Kirk Cameron
If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing. -- Michael Ealy
If at first you don't succeed, try again. If it still doesn't work out, success may not be your thing. -- Warren Miller
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If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success. -- Robert Orben
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If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again. -- Aaliyah
Go now and wash yourself first, for the sun will laugh at you if he sees how dirty you are. -- Johanna Spyri
If you'd like to be good at something, the first thing to out the window is the notion of perfection. -- Scott Berkun
The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all. -- Michael Caine
When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first. -- Kelly Cutrone
Each composer has their own language, and I try to meet the challenges, even if at first sight, they appear impossible. -- Michala Petri
Distress not yourself if you cannot at first understand the deeper mysteries of Spaceland. By degrees they will dawn upon you. -- Edwin A. Abbott
The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there. -- Bart D. Ehrman
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I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder. -- Carl Sagan
If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again. -- Richard Branson
When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don't at first recognize it for what it is. -- Sherwood Smith
Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity. -- Jane Greer
I hate seeing people that look like you. Especially if God's living by the motto 'If at first you don't succeed.' -- Demetri Martin
Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm? -- Emile Chartier
A slander is like a hornet; if you cannot kill it dead at the first blow, better not to strike at it. -- Josh Billings
If I'm asked to play first, I should be ready. It's nice to be in the lineup, regardless of where you're at. -- Travis Hafner
You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first. -- Sam Altman
I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first. -- Stephan Pastis
As a first-time CEO, I wasn't sure if I would scale to run IronPort long-term. But I wanted a legitimate shot at it. -- Scott Weiss
Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you ARE the sucker. -- Matt Damon
The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time. -- Robert Fripp
If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires. -- Ovid
If I were a lame only just for a week. I'd look at myself in the mirror and shoot the first thing I see. -- Wiz Khalifa
If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event. -- Hal Borland
At first she beckoned and lured one into her world; then, she blurred the passageways, confused all the images, as if to elude detection. -- Anais Nin
If at first you don't succeed, try management. Indecision is the key to flexibility. If at first you don't succeed, take the tax loss. -- Kirk Kirkpatrick
Building a cohesive leadership team is the first critical step that an organization must take if it is to have the best chance at success. -- Patrick Lencioni
If at the first sign of infection, you always jump in with antibiotics, you do not give the immune system a chance to grow stronger. -- Andrew Weil
Moscow is the city where if Marilyn Monroe should walk down the street with nothing on but shoes, people would stare at her feet first. -- John Gunther
Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down. -- Debbi Fields
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time. -- Peter Drucker
If you take off your pants and her first reaction is, "Awwww, look at it...like a little baby Jesus." Time to buy a Porsche. -- Dave Attell
If my father had a heart attack, it would give me no solace at all to know his treatment was first tried on a dog. -- Ingrid Newkirk
It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you. -- Stephen Chbosky
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would be taking the first step towards a real humanity. -- Nelson DeMille
A man's fortune is frequently decided by his first address. If pleasing, others at once conclude he has merit; but if ungraceful, they decide against him. -- Lord Chesterfield
If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy. -- Gene Simmons
I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place. -- Faith Hill
At first, I didn't really care if global warming existed. But then I realized it means that less bums would freeze to death in the winter -- Zach Braff
Even if it doesn't sound like it at first, that's an identity that Europe can go out into the world with and take a leading role. -- Bernard-Henri Levy
Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first." "Excuse me if entertaining you isn't at the top of my agenda. -- Nalini Singh
It may not always be obvious at first, but I think that everyone can make a valuable contribution if only they put their minds to it. -- Morris Graves
Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us. -- Piers Anthony
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph. -- Bill Jay
At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape. -- James Gray
Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you're done before you know it. -- Bill Watterson
I know from personal experience, if a chef yelled at me in a kitchen, the first thing I'd want to do is hit them with a pot. -- Tom Colicchio
I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it. -- Erin McKeown
When I first started talking about gay marriage, most people in the gay community looked at me as if I was insane or possibly a fascist reactionary. -- Andrew Sullivan
if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second. -- Johnny Depp
If you look at the first commercial transactions on the Internet, few of the early companies necessarily survived intact, but the ideas they invented became the industry. -- James Heywood
Like my father told me, if at first you don't succeed, try again. And again. And again. But after that, give up. It's no good being stubborn. -- Bryce C. Anderson
If I do find myself walking up the aisle and dancing at my own wedding reception, I want the first dance to be both spontaneous and dramatic. -- Anton du Beke
You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed. -- William Monahan
Fine natures are like fine poems; a glance at the first two lines suffices for a guess into the beauty that waits you if you read on. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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