“If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try, and try again”. Initially coined by Thomas H Palmer, a famous educator as a way of encouraging children to do their homework. It was made famous by Edward Hickson’s Moral song.
Saying you can is the first step to actually being able to. “If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try, and try again”. Initially coined by Thomas H Palmer, a famous educator as a way of encouraging children to do their homework. It was made famous by Edward Hickson’s Moral song.
The full quote is “Tis a lesson you should heed, try, try again. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, and try again”. The phrase became popular by Edward Hickson’s “Moral Song”. Since then, it’s been said by almost every teacher I know.
In your life, there will be plenty of times that you can use this phrase. The most common place you’ll find it is when you’re starting a new job. When you first start out in a job, chances are, you won’t be perfect. At this stage, many will feel like giving up.
Practice until you can’t get it wrong”. To be truly good at something means that it’s harder for you to get it wrong than it is to get it right. “Winners never quit. And quitters never win”. Many of us won’t do anything for fear of losing. But if we quit all the time, we’ll never win anything.
But the reality is that often the difference between doing and not doing is self-belief. If we want to achieve something, the first step is usually thinking we can. These kinds of quotes help us when we’re feeling low, and they enable us to look to the future when we aren’t struggling anymore.
In Old English, “Succeed” was “Seucceden” and it didn’t mean what it does today, it just meant to endure . Before coming to our shores, it was “Succeder” in French, which meant to flow on. Before that, it meant to come after when it was “Succedere” in Latin.
This phrase means that if you keep on failing, just keep on trying until you manage to do it.