Preston Sturges Quotes

When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

In my early days in school, I had no shoes, no school bags. There were days I had only one meal... I walked miles and crossed rivers to school every day. Didn't have power, didn't have generators, studied with lanterns, but I never despaired.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

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.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

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.

When times are tough I am not one for just throwing the towel in.

I've always been the person to look at any turmoil as temporary. I recall times where my mom was working five and six jobs, and there's still no food in the house.

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.

The hardest thing to do is to fail and keep pushing at the same time.

When I was struggling to get recognition as a wrestler, I faced innumerable hardships. I even slept on the ring itself after finishing my practice. Those days, I did not have a house to live.

In life, you always have to keep fighting. It's not easy.

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.

Just because you get punched in the nose doesn't mean that you throw in the towel.

When I got knocked down, I got back up.

When you are going through hell, don't stop.

Never give up: There are certain times that you think, 'OK, you have beaten me down to my knees. And now the challenge is, I am on my knees and you keep on beating me down. And the question is, are you going to keep beating me all the way to the ground or will I find a way to struggle my way back on to my feet.'

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

It's so hard to get up again—although of course the harder it is the more satisfaction you have when you do get up, haven't you?

I've struggled in my life. I've had hard times, but I kept pressing on.