Noel Coward Quotes

Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.

I like down-to-earth people.

I think there's an innocence to me.

We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.

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.

As a person, I am still grounded and humble.

I like people who are passionate, who have persevered, and who are clearly humble and not arrogant.

I don't know what people expect me to be like, but I'm very down-to-earth and not at all full of myself.

I come from a poor background, I've seen struggle. Money will come and go, but I will continue to be grounded.

I'm trying to... stay humble and keep doing what I do.

I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.

I'm a humble guy, I'm pretty down to earth.

I think actors should stay grounded and humble and open.

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give... You will find that people forget the failures of others very quickly.... My last piece of advice is not to let anyone see your mortification, but whatever you fancy people are saying about you to go on with your ordinary life as though nothing unpleasant had happened to you.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

Character is proportionate to N, the number of consecutive failures without being discouraged, or equivalently, the number of successive rejections without being intimidated.

Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on.

Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they are always looking forward and seldom back.

I don't believe my own hype, I just take each day as it comes. And I always feel blessed.

There’s a tendency for young people to get discouraged and frustrated easily. But don’t be afraid to fail. In many ways, we learn so much more from our failures than our successes. Remind yourself that failure is nothing more than a means to a greater end. Bide your time, learn from your mistakes, and lead by example. If you believe in what you’re doing, it will show.

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

It is not the critic who counts