“Each of us is the hero in the movie of our life. The only difference is that some of us are better… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or… — Kristopher Belman Copy Share Image
Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
In 1982, I wrote in my diary that life is motion, not joy. If the way you measure success in life is… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
“I believe that a writer should never attempt a contemporary theme or a very precise topography. Otherwise people are immediately going to… — Fernando Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“You see, only defeat forces things to change. When losing, we feel reborn and we find the guts to live again by… — Manos Hadjidakis Copy Share Image
Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days… — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
These days I think people give up too easily. Everyone says it’s about compromise, which it is. Love, compromise, promises, presents help.… — Simon Le Bon Copy Share Image
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I don’t give up on anything! I fight to the very end no matter how many setbacks I may have. Even if… — Monica Breckenridge Copy Share Image
“How often, for example, have you said or heard someone else say, “All I really want in this life is to be… — Phillip C. McGraw Copy Share Image
“My life has made me what I am. It hasn't been easy, sometimes I have found it almost unbearable, but suffering can… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Many people will enter your life. Each one has a role in your psyche. Each one represents a part of you. Some… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
Many people who live in big countries like ours thought that we had resources that would work for us for many, many… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and… — Thorstein Veblen Copy Share Image
“In a study of adult self-esteem, researchers found that people who are happy with themselves take defeat and explain it away, treating… — David Niven Copy Share Image
“In general, Temple was forced to concede, he was a man who had failed to live up to his own high standards.… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that,… — Christie Brinkley Copy Share Image
I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
“Without the protection of our leaders, everyone outside the inner circle is forced to work alone or in small tribes to protect… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“When people are looking for causes of failure, they are predisposed to one of these positions. Suppose you apply for a job,… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
That’s why it is important to enjoy the journey not just the destination. In this world, we will never arrive at a… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“We were trying, as I irrelevantly analyzed it, to avoid what might be termed a historic mistake. We were trying to understand,… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The truth will always lead you to a better place and a bigger place. And every single setback, every single one, has… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
I think women are amazing for being able to show what they feel. I admire women who do. I think it's a… — Gal Gadot Copy Share Image
The first, that their pretensions to this possession of an art properly so called in their art of speaking are entirely unfounded;… — Friedrich Schleiermacher Copy Share Image
So far the biggest accomplishment I give myself is getting the silver in the Olympic Trials. Even though it's kind of a… — Keith Thurman Copy Share Image
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad.… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I feel that no one should be ashamed or have fear or doubt within themselves when they speak about the roots or… — Burning Spear Copy Share Image
People just see the shine. They don't see the grind, the bags under my eyes. It was a lot of grinding, setbacks...… — Kodak Black Copy Share Image
Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Daddy, I love you. I know you make mistakes and you screw up sometimes, but I know you're only trying to do… — Amanda Copy Share Image
“You are not what you have done, but what you have overcome. All the hardships, the mistakes, the rejections, the pain and… — The Angel Affect Copy Share Image
