Ani DiFranco Quotes

Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

It is a most miserable lot to be without an enemy. [No man can be successful without being envied and hated.]

Went from being hated on, to Niggas try to go down the same road I made it on. Aint no love lost but aint no love shown, so now when niggas call i just don not pick up the phone.

The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

It sucks to be the runner-up because I've been the runner-up for a long time in my career. I would get so close and then lose a huge movie and sometimes it's one kid who beats you out for three different movies. It's so frustrating at the time, but what's so great is the lesson you take from that, which is, 'I've got to get better.'

Stability is the number one thing you need to be successful in anything. I constantly had the rug pulled out from under me. I think people were jealous of me. I think people saw me as this guy who could conquer the world.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

If you truly want to succeed, you have to stay humble - humble or crumble - because it can all go away in the blink of an eye.

I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.