Maxwell Maltz Quotes

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Just go and keep auditioning and keep trying and keep believing things will turn around, and it always does.

If you never give up, you'll be successful.

No man fails who does his best.

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

The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.

It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

I'm a little bit of an eternal optimist. People always say to me, 'If you go do this and it fails, what are you going to do?' I don't care. I'm going to give it my best shot. That's what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I'll try again.

It's all right to fail. You just have to get up again and try. That's the bottom line.

You're going to hit some rough patches. You're going to run into obstacles. People are going to say, 'You can't do it.' But you have to persevere. You have to keep working hard and believing in yourself.

It's always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, 'Man, what's going on?' It's always discouraging. But I'm a fighter. I don't like to quit.

One of the factors that has helped me to reach 100 games was not to lose hope.

A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don't have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.

You will have ups and downs - but believe anything is possible. With hard work, it can come off.

I always try to do my best. Sometimes is that enough to get a good result, sometimes not, but I never give up, and I never will.

It matters if you don't just give up.

90% of all those who fail are not actually defeated. They simply quit.

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

If at first you don't succeed-try, try again. Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as timed-release success.