Jared Diamond Quotes

If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.

No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

Failure doesn't mean anything, it just means changing paths.

You can be stubborn and successful or you can give it up a bit and change things around. For me it's important to have a bit of both.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Success is falling nine times and getting up ten.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

I'm a big believer that success is never final and failure is never fatal.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

I do believe that it's when you stop and give up that real failure takes place.

I've stood the test of time, weathered a lot of storms and hurdled a lot of obstacles.

I've always had to fight. Throughout my life, it's been a fight to get to where I am now.

I've experienced a lot of successes. I've experienced a lot of failures. I've been able to get back up on my feet and keep going.

There have been plenty of stories of people who go through adversity and had a bump in the road. The guys who persevere and continue to work hard, it turns out OK for them.

I've achieved everything I've wanted to achieve, so I'm not scared of failure. I never gave up, however bad the injuries got.

The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

Young people can understand, and must understand, that we had success, we had failures, but we never gave up. We never gave in. We never became bitter. We didn't hate. We continued to press on. And that's what we're saying: There are some ups, there are some downs, and when you're not down, you must have the capacity and the ability to get up and keep going.