Sylvia Day Quotes

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

I don't like failing at anything.

Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

One step forward, two steps back ... It happens in the lives of individuals, and it happens in the history of nations and in the development of parties.

You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.

The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks - or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.

In 2010, I put CrossFit on a pedestal and then, when I failed at it and got second, it was hard for me.

If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen

When you give your all to something and you're hitting a wall, it just feels so wrong.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

If things are not working out, they just stop going forward.

Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.

Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

Sometimes when you do things right, there's no results.

Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.

For almost two months now I've been struggling away with no result.

Everything seems stupid when it fails.

You have to do disappointment twice.

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

What I created got abominated.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

Suppose you succeed in breaking the wall with your head. And what, then, will you do in the next cell?