Tim Scott Quotes

You learn from being out of the team, but it makes you desperate for another chance, and when it comes along, you just have to grab it. Don't let go.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

I wasn't the brightest kid in school. I was a backbencher troubling the frontbencher, and eventually I failed in my 10th grade. But then in higher secondary, there were only three people who got first division in arts, and I was one of them. So this tells you, where you put your mind and heart into, that's where you go.

Conflict states just need someone to give them a chance. Nobody wants to be a failure.

I am the perfect example that if you give somebody a chance, especially here in the United States, one can find the way.

People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.

This is the land of getting over. The land of second or even third chances; the land of doing whatever you have to do by any means necessary in order to fulfill the American Dream.

I think when you lose the fight, it's not the end of the world. You can keep training and catch up and try again better, you know?

Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.

To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.

I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.

These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure - they make me work harder.

No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that.