It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.
Options are good. Keeps people choosing.
It's better to have won & lost than to have won, stopped trying, & descended into alcoholism.
People alive are better than people not alive.
Don’t put clothes on food. It’s supposed to be naked.
The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!