Ze Frank Quotes

… his [Charles Evans Hughes’] greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man. I think it was one of the strongest things about [Theodore] Roosevelt. He never tried to minimize what other people did and often exaggerated it..

I have some realistic humility which comes from my first career as a writer. I wrote for other people for ten years. I saw some incredible egos not based on any reality. They were great when they were on top and awful when they weren't. I learned a lot about how to treat people.

It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.

No matter how many people celebrate your gifts, don't ever think that you are more important to them than your gift is to them. This is why many people fail: They fail because they think that people came to follow them.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

I realize I can never take my success for granted. It's not attractive for anyone to be like that.

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

I realize I'm very fortunate to hopefully make a lot of money playing football. I don't know if I want to abuse that privilege and make myself a larger figure than I am.

Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

My faith helped me stay grounded in defeat and victory, to not get too excited about the successes and too low about the failures.

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.

Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.

Only humility can take you places.

I had a lot of success for many years, and the critics had been so kind. Sometimes it's good to get cut down to size a little bit.

You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

The disgraces I suffer should be attributed to me, but the praises that I get go to my family and teachers. It is they who decided what I would become.

One thing that I've learned is that you don't have to be a prima donna or think you are better than other people in order to succeed.

I'm a simple man and success doesn't go to my head.

I've had a lot of accolades throughout my career, but that hasn't really changed me. I know that comes with the winning.

And there has to be a level of gratitude and a little bit of pride. But I want that pride to be quick so that I don't soak in it too much. Because I've met a lot of jerks in this business. And I don't want to be one.

I have a clear conscience and never let success get to my head. You know that when you achieve something, you can change the way you are very easily.

The most important thing is to stay humble because there are always people telling you that you're this and that you're going to do that.

Perhaps the biggest lesson that I would say is the one to learn is not to let fame and fortune get inside your head.

Personally, I don't think about the things I have won but the things I have lost.