Tim Tebow Quotes

If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

When you experience lows like I have it just makes you hungry to go and succeed even more, and make sure days like that don't happen as much as they have done.

I never quit. I just got fired.

Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.

I had achieved so much success in my career and then had this spectacular fall from grace that left me unemployed and living in a town, Los Angeles, that is built on envy. Once you fall, people don't really root for you to come back again. I'd go to restaurants where I always had the best table and half the time they wouldn't even let me pay. And then when I stopped making movies, the same places wouldn't even give me a lousy table, never mind the best one!

The great do not always prevail.

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

I could do nothing without my problems; they toughen my mind. In fact, I tell my assistants not to bring me their successes for they weaken me, but rather to bring me their problems, for they strengthen me.

They don't want you to win.

Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

Prosperity has no power over adversity.

Failure means you've now learned another valuable lesson that pushes you one step closer to success.

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

Not every man can carry a full cup. Sudden elevation frequently leads to pride and a fall. The most exacting test of all to survive is prosperity.

Mankind apparently find it easier to drive away adversity than to retain prosperity.

Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

Obstacles are only opportunities to succeed or fail; how we handle them determines what will happen.

You don't get character because you're successful; you build character because of the hardships you face.

Yet we must try the harder, the less the prospect of success.