Jessie Pavelka Quotes

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

We have all lost before and we will win again.

It's never easy to lose the games and then come back stronger.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.

Defeats are always pitiful. Victories are always last resources.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.

I love to win; but I love to lose almost as much. I love the thrill of victory, and I also love the challenge of defeat.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Look, I've lost before. And there's always a tomorrow.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Man is not made for defeat.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.