Khalil Gibran Quotes

You know, you have to put bread on the table. So you thank God you got the job.

Right from my childhood, I have believed in a Supreme Power. I don't know whether it has form, or it is formless. I am a high school dropout. How come life has given me so much? It's not my intelligence, it's not my abilities. This understanding makes me scared even in success. I don't own my success. Neither do I own my failure.

Life goes on if you're one of the lucky ones.

Some years you have good years, some years you don't.

I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.

We got very lucky. We were successful, but if we weren't, I don't know what I would have done.

I'm not a reluctant pop star. I'm very grateful and happy for everything that I have and for things when they go well. On the other hand, I've had enough of the other side to know that if it doesn't, I will survive that and life goes on.

Every day's a blessing, so I'm just out there throwing my best.

The biggest failures come round and spring ultimate surprises of survival.

The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.

I'm so thankful that I've had such a long and uninterrupted [knocks wood] career... I count my blessings every day for that because it was so fulfilling.

Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.

I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.

Authentic success is being so grateful for the many blessings bestowed on you and yours that you can share your portion with others.

I had a lot of successes, but what really made me fearless was my complete failure at Zidd-Davis. Once you've lived through that, you know you can survive, and you're not as scared... There's nothing to build confidence like real achievement, but also like real failure.

Labour is the source of every blessing.

Audiences have kept me alive.

My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.

I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side.

I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.