Judith Viorst Quotes

Not everything comes together in the best way ever every day. It just doesn't.

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Sometimes things don't happen in the way you want it to. But that's sport.

Everyone is going to make bogeys and doubles and get bad breaks in bunkers. It's just kind of licking your wounds and taking what it gives you and move on.

Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation; losers, to give in the frustration; winners, to come through with determination.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?

I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

how hard you worked for what you wanted. how cruelly fate betrayed you in the end.

This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and more thankful for your pleasures.

When Time got rid of my column, I thought it was all over. It was really sad. And then, I just started pushing it to lots of places. And I thought someone would run my column, I thought it was popular, and no one wanted it.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your life at regular intervals. You just need to keep the raincoat handy to not let the spark die

...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

You know the sting of losing or not getting something you badly want. When that happens show what you are made of.

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.

It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks

If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

it is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.