Dan Millman Quotes

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

I'm about to reach my dreams and I aint even got my arms stretched.

When you feel stuck and can't seem to move ahead, always remember that you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going!

It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.

Nothing is ever a setback. If anything, it just motivates you for what's next.

The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.

Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked protest, something like momentum happened. It took your wits and your concentration and your continued willing sweat, of course, to keep it going, but the success of success had ball bearings.

Have you not succeeded? Continue! Have you succeeded? Continue!

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

By staying focused and flexible, you will meet and exceed your major life-forming goals. Success is not a resting-place - it is a launching pad

I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing

Failure is part of the process of success.

If you find yourself stuck in the middle there is only one way to go, forward.

Unless you treat failure as part of the journey, you're never going to get anywhere.

It felt like I'd been playing second-string football for a long time, when, suddenly, I was playing in the Super Bowl. Even when 'Basic Instinct' was a hit, I still felt like I was running with that ball toward the end zone. It took awhile for me to realize that I was already in the end zone with the ball down and the crowd screaming on its feet.

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

Persistent work triumphs.

You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own.

If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.