John Fowles Quotes

I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.

Losing and winning is a part of life.

In the game of life, survival is only part of the battle.

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

You really have to act your pants off to stay alive. I thrive on that; I rise to the occasion of the circumstances.

It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.

To survive is to win.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

I've been tremendously lucky. I went through things that turned out wrong, and I got myself out of them.

I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?

Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

I've gone through my trials and tribulations, and sure, it's gotten bumpy and all that, but I'm here. OK?

Survival is triumph enough.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

Survival is nothing more than recovery.

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.