Bob Dylan Quotes

My greatest sense of accomplishment has come from having two amazing sons, but it's also a paradox in that the times when I felt like the biggest failure have been times when I felt like, as a parent, I wasn't making the right decisions or succeeding in the way that I should.

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.

When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left!

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

It's only when you abandon your ambitions that they become possible.

If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.

i keep drinking the ink from my pen and i'm balancing history books up on my head but it all boils down to one quotable phrase if you love something give it away

Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the f***** deli without hearing or seeing me.'

I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.

Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Nobody loves the light like the blind man.

What went wrong? Nothing and everything.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success.

I would say [I love] writing, because lately I've been finishing my book.

Of persons I will say this: it is difficult to tell when they are running aright but easy to see when something has gone awry.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

Fall in love with what you're going to do for a living. To be able to get out of bed and do what you love to do for the rest of the day is beyond words. I'd rather be a failure in something I love than be successful in something I hate.

How melancholy a thing is success. Whilst failure inspirits a man, attainment reads the sad prosy lesson that all our glories "Are shadows, not substantial things." Truly said the sayer, "disappointment is the salt of life" a salutary bitter which strengthens the mind for fresh exertion, and gives a double value to the prize.

To hope is to contradict the future.