Olga Korbut Quotes

It's harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn't get you anywhere.. Only makes you weak.

On tough days, you gotta have heart. Don't quit, whatever you do. Persevere.

I will get stronger. I will return.

When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, never, never give up', and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.

It's still in my heart. I can do it.

God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.

People throw in the towel because they don't know how to fight. You'd be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.

The one thing I've said before, the one thing that I've been taught is that when you fall, you get right back up. And I'm up.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

Obstacles are merely a call to strengthen your resolve to achieve your worthwhile goals.

But the question that everyone wanted answered was whether I would have the nerve and the strength to start the whole process from scratch. I said yes; otherwise I would be someone who had no dream left, and without dreams I would not want to live.

Today I will surrender to discipline. I realize that sometimes it takes time to see the fruits of my labors, yet I still need to practice discipline. Help me to remember, God, that I'm moving forward, and that I'm learning the very important art of discipline.

I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.

Though perseverance does not come from our power, yet it comes within our power.

It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.

When I'm scared - and I'm always scared when I have to face an audience, when I have to read a review, when I publish a book...then, I think of my grandfather. My grandfather was this strong, tough Basque who would never bend....What would he do? Well, he would go ahead, close his eyes, and drive forward. You do it and the spirit that is within you....is there.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

If you cant be brave then be determined. And you will end up in the same place.

Effort + the courage to show up = enough.

...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.