When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
When something goes wrong, smile, because there’s always a next play.
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
I’ve always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn’t have a chance to win.
Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.
Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.