Sonya Hartnett Quotes

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

Failure isn't really an option because, as my grandmother used to say, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

I will not fail,' the water bearer's daughter vowed. 'But worse than failing is not to try at all. For then there can be no hope of success.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

The other day the grass was brown, now its green cuz I ain't give up. Never surrender.

The right way is the hard way.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

It's only a sure defeat when you stop trying.

As long as I try, there’s always a chance of getting up. It’s not the end until you give up.

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.

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.

Success is never ending, failure is never final.

There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go.

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 matters if you don't just give up.

Life is difficult no matter what, but hard work and perseverance make it a lot easier.

To be human : to strive in the face of the certainty of failure.

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.