Sarah Dessen Quotes

Sometimes you're trying your best and you still can't find a solution, but I try not to waste my life living in a dark place.

A defeated wrestler is not tired of wrestling.

If you fall sometimes, you must not be discouraged.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

I don't have problems with people, because if I do, I address it.

I don't lead with an iron fist. I don't yell at people. I have a way of making my opinion clear.

All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

I was in the hockey team in school, played football. One of the challenges for me was to make the team feel better. It helped me evolve, so batting at different positions was never a problem.

All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

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

If you fall during your life, it doesn't matter. You're never a failure as long as you try to get up.

I've played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don't, and whether you get along with them or you don't. The circumstances don't matter. Team work is part of life.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I have always worked hard, and seeing so many Icelanders make tremendous efforts to cope with difficult tasks and decisions inspires me.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

My golf is woeful but I will never surrender.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

There are leaders vocally, and there are leaders by example. I think I'm starting to become better at being a leader vocally, just talking on the court.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.