Spencer Johnson Quotes

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.

As a player and a coach, I've had plenty of great moments, but I've also experienced disappointments. The disappointments are not about self-doubt, but rather about change. I've always seen failures as a personal challenge. I say to myself: Now I have to find out if I have the right stuff.

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

You’ll fail at some things, that’s a learning experience that you need so that you can take that on to the next experience... What you learn from those challenges and those failures are what will get you past the next ones... I was the pretty consistent bull and the cheerleader on eBay actually.

Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.

We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

When you get kicked, you must know that the response is to play better. That is the way I have always thought. That is an extra motivation for me to play better.

After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.

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

If you have the character to hang in there when its tough, you will develop or acquire every other characteristic necessary to WIN in the game of life.

I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it

Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.