There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

‚Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash… If anything, that’s all giving me power.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

I don’t know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something’s not good enough, and I won’t stop until I feel like I’ve made it. I’m never satisfied.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids‘ dreams, but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We’ve all stumbled, and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn’t be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven’t the patience for them. It’s maybe shallow, but that’s why I’ll never be part of the acting set.

This lady is not for turning.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.