Craig Mello Quotes

Whatever you're going through in your life, don't ever give up.

Americans are blessed with a can-do spirit - we don't give up, even in the face of a daunting challenge like a life-threatening illness.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

If you know that life is basically going to be horrendously difficult, at best, and all but unlivable at worst, or possibly even unlivable, do you go on? And the choice to go on is the only thing that I think can be called hope. Because if hope isn't forced to encounter the worst possibility, then it's a lie.

The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.

Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.

You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.

I learned that I'm really good with perseverance. I'm stronger than I thought I was inside. I also learned that I don't give up easily and that I trust and believe that things are going to be OK.

No matter what happens to us in life, we must get back on our feet and continue on the path.

You've got keep your head up, keep fighting, and do the best you can.

What is the most important is never to give up, never to give in to circumstances, to trust yourself.

One should be brave. It's life, there will be ups and downs. It's only when you are down, that you get the strength to get back up.