Richard Phillips Quotes

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

It's always too early to quit.

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

Never give up.

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.

Perseverance is my motto!

I had to work at it - audition and fail, get things and lose others. If you really want something, you keep going.

I was never brought up to be a quitter.

It matters that you don't just give up.

Do I believe in giving up? No, I don't.

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

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

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

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

I pity the fool who just gives up.

Really, you don't lose until you stop trying.

Giving up is the first way to fail. It does not exist for me.

Don't give up at the first hurdle you encounter.

There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That's what I'm all about.

The only real failure is giving up.

I believe 99% of success is never giving up.

It matters if you don't just give up.

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.