“It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting -- it was a dirty word...”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.”— Doug Cooper, amazon.com
“Because when you find something you love, you can’t quit. Every failure pushes you harder. It’s in your soul and in your fucking heart.”— Becca Ritchie, amazon.com
“I'm not going to wish for a perfect life. The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I'm choosing to stand up taller. I'll p…”— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com
“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the…”— Rachel Van Dyken, amazon.com
“If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there.”— Rachel Joyce, amazon.com
“Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”— Sabaa Tahir, amazon.com
“Shh, listen, don’t be discouraged if you don’t win. It’s a learning process. You’ll get better with each try.”— E.L. Montes, amazon.com
“You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up.”— Kristen Chandler, amazon.com
“Never give up. It's like breathing — once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever,…”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.”— Tina Fey, amazon.com