“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up”
•August 30, 2023•
by Sarah Hudson Pierce
columnist
Coach Vince Lombardi said “it’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”
When I get discouraged I like to think about Norman Vincent Peale, author of The Power of Positive Thinking. The book was first thrown into the trash can by the author, Norman Vincent Peale, who was told by a publisher that his book wasn’t worth publishing. Being discouraged, he told his wife not to retrieve it from the can.
Instead she carried the manuscript, still in the basket, to another publisher, who immediately published it.
The rest is history.