Ruth Gordon Quotes

A winner must first know what losing's like.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Challenges are meant to be met and overcome.

Survival was my only hope, success my only revenge.

I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no water, and they're the ones that survive. But I've been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there's usually something good at the end.

Hard times always lead to something great.

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

To be able to go through what I've gone through and still be fortunate before the age of 40 to still be here to be offensive coordinator with Coach Saban at Alabama, you take some time to reflect on that.

As a boss, as a CEO, as a creative director, as a chef, I've learned that failure will always come. I've learned to give it a big squeeze, smile at it, humble myself to it and then use it as a springboard to send me on my way to strength, success, and fulfillment.

A rough beginning doesn't have to mean there is a rough end.

I am the guy who always gets put in the tough spots. I'm the guy who gets put in these really dark spots, yet somehow, I shine through.

I was at Watford and got a knock-back when I was 16 and didn't get a YTS contract. They said I could find another club or go in and train three times a week after school. I'd been there since I was 10, so I got my head down and proved them wrong. Within a year, they had signed me up, and I haven't looked back.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

Some of my biggest victories have come directly after some of my biggest failures.

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

I think that everyone who is going to really move up has got to go through some trauma...I'm much more respected in my new job, than I was as the head of the Warner Group, because I survived being thrown out the window, going splat on the concrete, and walking.

Search for the seed of good in every adversity. Master that principle and you will own a precious shield that will guard you well through all the darkest valleys you must traverse. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the mountaintop. So will you learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of good. Find it and prosper.

It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.

Things will always go wrong so ride through your difficulties and learn from them.

Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their "other selves".