Lauren Kate Quotes

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

When you give your all to something and you're hitting a wall, it just feels so wrong.

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.

I've done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by 'the joy of strife'. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Hard work and best efforts will not by themselves dig us out of the pit.

You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

There is no success without hardship.

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

People asked me what I want as an epitaph: "He Tried".

‘Tis better to have fought and lost, Than not to have fought at all.

Whenever you put so much time and effort into one single game, and you go out there and lose, it sucks.

I have put a lot of energy and focus into capturing the Cruiserweight Championship, but obviously I didn't get the job done.

I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.