George S. Patton Quotes

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

You've got to think life can give you some bad knocks; no matter how hard you're knocked, you've got to get up.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

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

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

Everybody in life has something that they get knocked down on. The object lesson here is not that you get knocked down - it is that you get up.

The only advice you can give is, 'Don't let the bad stuff keep you down.'

I have learned it's not how you fall but how you get up that truly matters.

I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.

I fail at things all the time. I'm always being told no. I just get back up and try again.

It is important when you are losing to come back and not get beat.

It's always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, 'Man, what's going on?' It's always discouraging. But I'm a fighter. I don't like to quit.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

The one thing I've said before, the one thing that I've been taught is that when you fall, you get right back up. And I'm up.

I lost as amateur, I lost a bunch of times as a wrestler, and you always come back.

When I got knocked down, I got back up.

It would be fair to say that the start of my life in Manchester was not perfect, but there have been many other times when I've had setbacks, and I have never given up.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

I think maybe everyone falls... I think the asking is whether we get back up again.