Joey King Quotes

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

What I always liked best about myself was my resilience, especially in this business with all the 'no's,' the doors closed in my face.

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.

Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.

With failure, you just try again.

When you get punched, you have to get up. You have no other choice. If you don't, you're not going to grow, you're not going to get better as a player.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.