Don't Give Up
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A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. - Richard M. Nixon
A mistake at least proves somebody stopped long enough to do something.
A shadow falling only means that there is a light nearby.
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
- David Brink
All things are difficult before they are easy. - Thomas Fuller
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
Always remember: amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.
An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it. - Denise Polin
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
- Arnold Bennett
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. - Josh Billings
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe,
your mind will find the ways to do it. - David Schwartz
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. - Confucius
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams
Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it.
Diamonds are only chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. - Minnie Smith
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. - John Wooden
Don't let your victories go to your head or your failures go to your heart.
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard
Every great achievement was once impossible.
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. - Semisonic
Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Forbes
Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. - Henry Ford
For they conquer who believe they can. - John Dryden
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them
- every day begin the task anew. - Saint Francis de Sales
He who never fell never climbed.
He who would leap high must take a long run. - Danish Proverb
I am not a has been. I am a will be. - Lauren Bacall
I am not retreating, I am advancing in a different direction. - General Douglas MacArthur
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. - Bill Cosby
I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games.
On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot … and I missed.
I have failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that's precisely why I succeed. - Michael Jordan
I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive. - Albert Einstein
If at first you don't succeed you are running about average.
If opportunity does not knock, build a door.
If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.
- Cicero
If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.
If you're falling off a cliff, try to fly. You've got nothing to lose. - John Sheridan
If you're going through hell, keep going. - Winston Churchill
In order to be a good loser you have to lose.
In the long run, you only hit what you aim at. – Henry David Thoreau
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down.
It's staying down that's wrong. - Muhammad Ali
It is always better to fail at doing something than to excel at doing nothing.
It is better to be second out of a thousand than first out of one. - Shujah Qadir
It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. - Ornette Coleman
It's always too early to quit. - Norman Vincent Peale
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. - Albert Einstein
I've learned that life is like a scooter car: not much happens unless you do some pedaling.
- Age 79; Live and Learn and Pass it On by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Just because something doesn't do what you planned doesn't mean it's useless. - Thomas Edison
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. - Winston Churchill
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. - Ken Hakuta
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize
how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas Edison
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. - James Joyce
Most of the important things in this world have been accomplished by people
who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. - Dale Carnegie
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. - Charles Dickens
No pressure, no diamonds. - Thomas Carlyle
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke
Nothing is lost until you stop looking for it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. - Michael Jordan
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- Andre Gide
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T. S. Elliot
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Edison
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail. - Confucius
People too weak to follow their own dreams will always find a way to discourage yours.
Perfectionism is spelled `paralysis.' - Winston Churchill
Practice doesn't make perfect, nor is it supposed to.
Practice is about increasing your repertoire of ways to recover from your mistakes. - Joann C. Gutin
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry Kaiser
Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- George Bernard Shaw
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life
as by the obstacles which he has overcome. - Booker T. Washington
Success isn't permanent, and failure isn't fatal. - Mike Ditka
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. - William Feather
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Alan Saporta
The biggest risk is not taking one.
The expert at anything was once a beginner. - Hayes
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials. - Chinese Proverb
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
- Aristotle
The more difficult the obstacle the stronger one becomes after hurdling it.
The seeds of doubt are always there; it's whether we water them or not that makes the difference.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton
The world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it. - Helen Keller
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.
- Ivy Baker Priest
There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did
and those who did and never thought. - Laurence Peter
There is no failure except in no longer trying. - Elbert Hubbard
Things are only impossible until they're not.
This thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. - Mary Pickford
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night. - Edgar Allan Poe
Those who fear the thorns will never pick the roses.
Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held it's ground.
Trying can be very trying.
Use the talents you posses, for the woods would be a very silent place
if no birds sang except the best. - Henry Van Dyke
We always overestimate our worries and underestimate our potential.
We should not criticize those who trip by taking a more difficult than usual step. - Dick Hubbard
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess,
but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects. - Alexis de Tocquevillle
What things we would achieve if we knew we could never fail. - Myriah Ortega
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
- Jacob August Riis
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
Winning builds character, losing strengthens it. - Tristan Davies
Without struggle there is no progress. - Marcus Garvey
Worry is often a substitute for action.
You always pass failure on the way to success. - Mickey Rooney
You are never a loser until you quit trying. - Mike Ditka
You can't get anywhere today if you are still mired down in yesterday.
You can't go back and make a brand new start
but you can start today to make a brand new ending.
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt
You only go as far as you push yourself.
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