Jose Mujica Quotes

You know what daring really is to me? It's maybe much more simple: the willingness to get up and try it again. It's not about whether or not you fall down, it's how you get back up. And I've taken quite a few tumbles, myself.

A man can fall many times in life, but he's never a failure until he refuses to get back up.

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

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

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Falling down doesn't matter, even if you do it a hundred times. All that matters is that you get up again.

Fall down nine times, get up ten.

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.

Take risks. Fail. Pick yourself back up again. And always, always remember this: there is no adversity capable of stopping you once the choice to persevere is made.

One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president.

Failure is not falling down but staying down.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

I just get up again when I fall down.

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.

I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."

It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

If you have a fall -- mental, moral, or physical -- pick yourself up and start over again immediately. If you do, in the long run life won't beat you.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

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

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

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

When you bottom out, you have to stand up and get going again.