Brian Lara Quotes

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

I think the strength of the man is to have the right balance. Not to be so high when you win; not to be so down when you lose.

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.

My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.

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

Greatness does not approach him who is forever looking down.

I don't want success to affect me to that extent that I change or failure to that extent that I get sad, bitter and negative.

I think it's important not to get carried away when you are successful - and not to let yourself feel gloomy when times are bad.

You can't think you're God when you score an important goal or the worst player around when its going badly.

Failures don't bother me much, nor do I let success go to my head.

It is as hard to take success as it is failure.

Failure-it centers me. Too much success has me thinking, All right, what's goin' on?

If you can't take a good kicking, you shouldn't parade how much luckier you are than other people.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

You can't take yourself too seriously.

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.

Brooklyn for twenty years, I've learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.