John Rzeznik Quotes

For me giving up is way harder than trying.

Men do not fail; they give up trying.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

I knocked a lot of guys out from the seventh round on - so if I gave up, I would never have achieved what I did. There was no giving up. It's weak to give up. The easiest thing in the world is to quit.

I was never brought up to be a quitter.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

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

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.

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

It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.

When I look at the kids training today... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most, and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.

It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

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

It's always too early to quit.

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

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

For most of the people who have a lot of success, it's because they were the ones who didn't quit. It's not necessarily because it was just laid out for them. It won't apply to all cases, but I think it's pretty good advice.