George Saunders Quotes

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."

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

For how long could we fail until we surrendered?

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

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

No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.

The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.

Even if you rise up a thousand times, your side will never achieve victory. ~Ulquiorra

FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost.

A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.

In general, the only way to overcome failure is to not let it destroy you. It's that old saying, "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." You just have to keep going.

Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

There came a point where I did give up on music, but I'm the kind of person that when I face obstacles, I become more determined. It's just something weird within me.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

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

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.

Be a warhorse for work and enjoy even the struggle against defeat.

The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.