Tom Petty Quotes

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Things are going to go wrong, and I think we are false to life if we don’t portray it. But there is also the hope that some lucky clown is going to come along and stumble into the gold mine. And I think you are also entitled to hold out that hope.

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No-one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you. All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are.

Nobody loses all the time.

When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again.

You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

I always think I have a chance, and I always give it all I've got.

They who lose today may win tomorrow.

When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

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

Never... never... whether you are five or 100, never give up. It's never too late.

Failure isn't fatal unless you let it be.

It matters if you don't just give up.

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

The triumph of hope over experience.

I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.

It's probably not going to lead to anything. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. If everyone who thought they might fail didn't even try, where would we be today?

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

If you don't give up, you still have a chance.

To persevere, I think, is important for everybody. Don't give up, don't give in. There's always an answer to everything.

Only he who gives up is defeated. Everyone else is victorious.

We are lucky, even the worst of us, for daylight comes.