Dan Millman Quotes

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.

Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

What I've learned from running is that the time to push hard is when you're hurting like crazy and you want to give up. Success is often just around the corner.

You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle

Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.

A champion is simply someone who did not give up when he wanted to.

Even still, we run. We have not reached our average of 57.92 years without knowing that you run through it, and it hurts and you run through it some more, and if it hurts worse, you run through it even more, and when you finish, you will have broken through. In the end, when you are done, and stretching, and your heartbeat slows, and your sweat dries, if you've run through the hard part, you will remember no pain.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough - when they are on the very brink of success.

People throw in the towel because they don't know how to fight. You'd be surprised how much fight you have in you if you just do it.

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

The only real failure is giving up.

Like everyone I am sometimes tired, but if I need to run I will try to run.

You just have to keep grinding.

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

It’s not when you start that makes your success in the world, but when you quit.

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.

The easiest thing any of us can do is give up. It doesn't matter how many no's you go through.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.

Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe's way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.