Jamais Cascio Quotes

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

We've always been able to bounce back.

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

I'm a survivalist and a survivor.

It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

As my kids grow up, I think a lot about the lessons and values I want to impart to them. More than any particular skill or even financial support, I believe perseverance and resilience will serve them best, regardless of what curveball life inevitably throws them.

Resilience can go an awful long way.

I roll with the punches.

My dad taught me very early in life that whenever a child learns to walk, he falls a lot of times, but then he picks himself up and learns to walk like a man, and that is something which is a motto in life as well. You gotta pick yourself up, and you gotta walk, and you gotta walk strong.

The key to success is to keep your head above the water.

Resilience is going to pay off.

Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes.

Sometimes you lose - perhaps because you play against the very best, or because surprises happen - but if there is organizational confidence, you bounce back from losses and convert them to successes.

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.

It's not about how far you fall, but how high you rebound.

For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them.

You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.

I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.