“Only the weak will fall and give up, the strong falls 100 times and wakes up 200 times”
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Cornelius Keagon 25
Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996Related quotes
“The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
Introduction, p. xi.
Source: The Alchemist (1988)
Context: I ask myself: are defeats necessary?
Well, necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for a dream, we have no experience and make mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”
Page 80
2000s, Promises to Keep (2008)
“The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!”
Variant: The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“That’s the nice thing about dreams, the way you wake up before you fall.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Original: Sei il mio pensiero che felicemente al mattino mi sveglia e che di notte dolcemente mi addormenta.
Source: prevale.net