Mike Myers Quotes

I still take losing out very seriously. But it inspires me that much more to move on. Quite often in my business, it's not the most talented people that succeed. Because they don't necessarily have the tenacity to deal with rejection.

What I always liked best about myself was my resilience, especially in this business with all the 'no's,' the doors closed in my face.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

As actors, we deal with rejection so much more than any other business. So I don't care how much of a genius you are, if you don't have the propensity to be able to get back up every time you get knocked down, then you're not going to survive.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

One of the things is we tend to give up too soon. We get knocked down a couple of times, and we stay down. It's so important to get back up again.

As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business.

A lot of people have been rejected and they just give up. I have never had that mentality.

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

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

It's always too early to quit.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.