Lev Yilmaz Quotes

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

Hope is not a matter of age.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

I'm a blind optimist when going into things.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Hope dies last.

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building and after 50 floors says, ‘So far, so good!’

Really, you don't lose until you stop trying.

Read enough about the dung beetle, and a picture of its character emerges: patient, optimistic, uncomplaining.

Never give up. That's my Clippers story, never give up.

A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don't have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.

You don't just stop believing in something because it doesn't always work.

My nature is such that even if I failed 9,999 times, I'll attempt for the 10,000th time again.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

Perseverance is another word for faith!

It matters that you don't just give up.

The only lost cause is one we give up on before we enter the struggle.

I've said to people before that I'm going to do my very best to make it, and I'm not going to give up. And that's true. But I might not make it. And if I don't make it, the Marathon of Hope better continue.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Whatever you do to gain success, you have to hang in there and hope good things happen. Always think positive.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

I have a huge admiration for the ability of people to go, 'I don't care if it can't happen. I don't care if you say it's impossible. I am gonna do it anyway.' I think it's an amazing part of human nature. It feeds into faith and belief in human beings to not only do the improbable but almost the impossible.

I am full of optimism. The world hasn't beaten it out of me yet. And I'm going to work very hard to make sure that they don't.

I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'