Henry Ford Quotes

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

Success has always been a great liar.

I learned that when you do the best job that you can do, some people will idolize you, others won't care, and some will vilify you.

You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

With each film, you are still trying to get the length and measure right. And failure is all about others' perception of you. When you have one success, they think you know it all. But if you fail, they think they know it all.

I felt like in Tampa Bay a lot of people thought we were overachieving.

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

It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over.

You might think you see a lucky man who made the grade.

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

I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession.

The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.

The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

The risk of failure is a very personal thing. One of the quotes I like, I think this came from the famous basketball coach from California - John Wooden - is that, "Successful people - winners - do everything necessary to prepare to win, without the certainty of winning." Everybody would do everything necessary to prepare to win if winning was a certainty. So you're willing to put yourself out publicly and privately and say, "I'm going to do this."

After the 2006 World Cup, I knew that you don't always need success, success, success on the pitch.

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.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.