Kenneth L. Pike Quotes

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.

I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

It's no good being great in something that goes straight to video.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

When you are not pursuing your goal, you are literally committing spiritual suicide.

The only work of art which succeeds is that which fails.

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that you wanted anyway.

The thing you always have to remember is, you look at people and they might look like a failure but there's often a narrow thing they do very well.

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?

Envy not success, nor pity failure, for you know not what is success or failure in the soul's reckoning.

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.

The man without a chin, no stamina, dead man, broken man, whatever. On your way to the top, you always get some criticism. Criticism is a great motivation. Failure is not an option to me.

You cannot let a fear of failure or a fear of comparison or a fear of judgment stop you from doing what’s going to make you great. You cannot succeed without this risk of failure. You cannot have a voice without the risk of criticism and you cannot love without the risk of loss.

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days...What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue in it after failure?...Anyone can believe in someone, or something that always succeeds...But failure...ah, now, that is hard to believe in, certainly and truly. Difficult enough to have value. Sometimes we just have to wait long enough...then we find out why exactly it was that we kept believing...There's always another secret.