Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

Wally Amos is the classic example of a man who gets up again and again.

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

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.

Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

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

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

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

Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.

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

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

You can't give up in any game, even if you are losing.

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.