Grantland Rice Quotes

Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head.

Failures don't bother me much, nor do I let success go to my head.

I don't let the hate go to my heart, and I don't let the praise go to my head.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

If I'm uncomfortable, you'd never know.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

Even before I entered the industry, my parents always told me never let success get to your head and failure to your heart.

I learned not to get too happy about good news or too distraught about bad.

Failure never goes to my heart, and success never goes to my head.

I think the strength of the man is to have the right balance. Not to be so high when you win; not to be so down when you lose.

I'm an emotional fighter.

The wise man should keep the balance between love and power; he should keep the love in his nature ever increasing and expanding, and at the same time strengthen the will so that the heart may not easily be broken.

Each human being can at once be a fighter and forgiver. When self-doubt tortures him, he most play the role of a fighter. And when his own ignorance humiliates him, he must play the role of a forgiver.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

As our heart summons our strength, our wisdom must direct it.

The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.

Recently, one friend asked me, "How can I force myself to smile when I am filled with sorrow? It isn't natural." I told her she must be able to smile to her sorrow, because we are more than our sorrow. A human being is like a television set with millions of channels. If we turn the Buddha on, we are the Buddha. If we turn sorrow on then we are sorrow. If we turn a smile on, we really are the smile. We can not let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to seize the situation in our hand, to recover our own sovereignty.

The secret to living a strong life is right in front of you, calling to you every day. It can be found in your emotional reaction to specific moments in your life.