John Green Quotes

If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on a blueprint, and don't face facts-what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow.

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

Never take no personally. Sometimes people tell you no for a reason that has nothing to do with you. You must keep going.

When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

Now if you know what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain't you! You're better than that!

If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. [So I need] someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.

With a defeat, when you lose, you get up, you make it better, you try again. That's what I do in life, when I get down, when I get sick, I don't want to just stop. I keep going and I try to do more. Everyone always says never give up but you really have to take that to heart and really do never definitely give up. Keep trying.

Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

Keep your morale high, in spite of setbacks. At the end you are bound to succeed.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.

It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

With training and self discipline; clear focus and confidence; problems can be overcome and even lead to unexpected gains

F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I will NEVER back off. I will NEVER give the work anything less than 100%. If I go down in flames, so be it. I'll be back.

When the why gets stronger, the how gets easier.

When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.

They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.

I am manageable. I, you know, it'll suffice I think. No, no, I feel pretty good. I trained for a long time and I got really cool, like I was doing jumps. It got like, I felt really good, but then when I got out on gravel and fake snow and - it just kind of all went downhill. But I think it's still okay.

Just because people tell you it can't be done, that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be done. It just means that they can't do it.

Believe while others are doubting.

And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.

The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.

I know I'm a champion. I know I've got it in me, they can't stop me.