Rohinton Mistry Quotes

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.

No matter how bad things get, eventually the sun is going to shine. If you just keep at it, pursuing your goals, eventually good things happen to decent people. For a person who is set on his goals, good things will happen. Everyone deals with adversity, it's how you bounce back from it.

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.

Failure isn't fatal unless you let it be.

Disappointment Can do a couple things. It can drop you into a giant sucking sinkhole of depression, a place you have to fight to climb out of. Or it can trigger an epic mania to overcome the odds and transform failure into success. Say you swing as high as the chains will take you because you seek the thrill of flight, and on the up- kick, you lose your seat. Injury is likely. But if you worry about falling down, and never chance "up," the sky will remain forever out of reach.

Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

I fail at things all the time. I'm always being told no. I just get back up and try again.

Even in the face of the greatest adversity, the key is to never lose hope, never lose sense of the dream that drives you.

I think it's important to keep things positive. Sometimes you don't win, and that sucks, and you work on improving.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

If the worst happens, if you lose and fail, but you still celebrate coming second because you've given it a red hot go. There is no need to fear failure.

No failure is final unless you ratify it.

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

Never give up! it is wiser and betterAlways to hope, than once to despair.Fling off the load of Doubt's cankering fetter,And break the dark spell of tyrannical care.

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

When people feel that they have failed, it's usually because somebody or something caused them to feel that way and taste defeat. I refuse to dwell on that. Yes, it sucks at first, and the feeling is valid, but it all happens for a reason.

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us.