“A winner is someone who gets up one more time than he is knocked down.”
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
“Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
“Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.”
“Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
“Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer.”
“People will rate you, hate you, shake you, and break you… but how strong you stand is what makes you.”
“The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.”
“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 have just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
“I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
“It is not wanting to win that makes you a winner; it is refusing to fail.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
“Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.”
“People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get ahead in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.”
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”
“Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
“Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.”
“It’s not just how hard you try, it’s how well you will succeed from trying hard.”
“The day you give up on your dreams is the day you give up on yourself.”
“The harder you fall the higher you bounce.”
“Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up or sit down and grieve. Find another way.”
“When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.”
“You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.”
“When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.”
“Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.”
“Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.”
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.”
“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”
Today Disney rakes in billions from merchandise, movies and theme parks
around the world, but Walt Disney himself had a bit of a rough start.
He was fired by a newspaper editor because, “he lacked imagination and
had no good ideas.”
