Portia de Rossi Quotes

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

It's the best fifth place I've ever had.

I don't like failing at anything.

I expected results.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Your hard work and talent will not pay off.

When you don't win anything, at the end of the day, you cannot say it is a good season.

There's no point looking good and losing. Winning is what it's all about, and you can't always look spectacular while doing it.

I've learnt that being second is worthless.

Practicing hard doesn't guarantee you anything.

When you taste first place, if you then go and finish fourth, you will be disappointed.

You are not guaranteed to be part of that story if you don't perform.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

If you start thinking that only your biggest and shiniest moments count, you're setting yourself up to feel like a failure most of the time.

You never win the silver, you only lose the gold

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

Did we miss out on a lot of targets? No. Was it disappointing? No.

Sometimes when you do things right, there's no results.

Doing is overrated, and success undesirable, but the bitterness of failure even more so.

I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box.