Randy Pausch Quotes

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

As I always say, I do not wish you an easy time, but I wish you that whatever difficulty you may have, you will overcome it.

Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

No matter where I came from, I'm a fighter.

And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.

Inside I'm treading waters steady tryna swim ashore.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.

It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad come to an end too...they always do. Even if you can't always believe that , please don't give up. Live.

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight