Norman Cousins Quotes

If you don't have any fight in you, you might as well be dead.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

It's never about the chemo; it's never about the cancer. It's all about what you're willing to put in to overcome whatever the obstacle is.

When I need motivation, I just think I can do everything if I maintain a strong sense of will.

. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.

Hope keeps you alive.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

The kind of music I'm dealing with is more a long-term music. Sometimes a little discourage runs along on your thought, but I am here to push it back. Discourage is a sign of weakness, and I don't like to be weak.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'

Hope is a talent like any other.

I said in my mind, 'keep fighting.'

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.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

I like to keep fighting in the bad moments and I will never say I am done.

I knew all the time I was going to get through the war. It was completely irrational, a silly idea, but I was not going to lie down and get myself killed. I was going to get out of it.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

I think when I stop fighting, I die in a sense.

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

Willpower is essential to the accomplishment of anything worthwhile.

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.