Jim Ryun Quotes

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

Losing doesn't make me want to quit. It makes me want to fight that much harder.

I don't deal in frustration. I'm a fighter. And everything I've ever gotten, I've had to fight for.

...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.

Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

I do believe that it's when you stop and give up that real failure takes place.

Me, my heart and my soul will always be a fighter. I'm not comfortable with saying, 'I'm done. I quit. I give up.' That's the way I am, and that's the way I always will be. From the day I was born to the day I die, I am a fighter!

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.

I've always seen myself as a winner, even as a kid. If I hadn't, I just might have gone down the drain a couple of times. I've got something inside of me, peasantlike and stubborn, and I'm in it 'til the end of the race.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

I'm going to keep going until I succeed — or die. Don't think I don't know how this might end. I've known it for years.

There are no failures, only quitters.

I don't know if I'm the best of the best. But I did know that if I quit, I wouldn't be.

Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is

Don't ever give up on yourself. Keep pushing because the change of guards is what life's all about. [...] You've always got to stick with whatever you're into because you're day is going to come. You're day is destined. If you walk away from that, whether it be from fear or whether you're just giving up. [...] The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

But still, like air, I'll rise

Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.

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.

By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never.