Mr. T Quotes

You always pass failure on your way to success.

The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.

People strike out. I strike out a lot - it happens. Just got to keep working.

I will try one hundred times to get up, and if I fail one hundred times. If I fail and I give up, will I ever get up? No! If I fail I’ll try again, and again and again. But I want to tell you it’s not the end.

When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

I'm a big believer in 'pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.'

Setbacks motivate me.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

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

We all fail - I have failed so many times, but it never discourages me. I just pick up and go.

You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You can't give up. I wouldn't give up. I didn't give up - or doubt myself - in becoming a successful musician with a successful band.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.

Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.

I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.

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.

Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.

Nothing is over until you quit.

You see figure skaters fall all the time. It's the way you pick yourself back up and keep going.

The best advice I ever got - and it's the best advice I'd give anybody - is just don't believe the word 'no.' Be persistent. Persevere. Keep going. Never, ever, ever give up.

I truly believe that you can't be a successful business unless there are hiccups. That American mentality of picking yourself up, brushing your shoulders off, and then really going for it makes you 100 times stronger and smarter.

It's all right to fail. You just have to get up again and try. That's the bottom line.

We've all been there, where it seems like all the cards are stacked against you, and you can't seem to do anything right. But you still have to say to yourself, 'You know what? That's not going to stop me. I still have to find a way.'