Sarah Dessen Quotes

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

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

There are no failures, only quitters.

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

It's important to keep trying to do what you think is right no matter how hard it is or how often you fail. Never stop trying

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

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

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

If I fail, I try again, and again, and again

It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.

Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: I shall try again and again, and I am bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but I have to defy the obstacles.

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

When your mind is focused and made up you don't make excuses. You try. If you fail you try again.

Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.

There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

There's a difference between winning and losing and not trying at all.

Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.