“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
"Clover", reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Poetry
“Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“We spent too much damn time getting down. Now it’s time to get up.”
Malcolm Azania book From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain
Source: From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain (2007), Chapter 9 “Paranoia: It Can Destroy Ya” (p. 258)
Thomas Watson, Jr. (1914–1993) American businessman and diplomat
Watson, Jr. cited in: Joseph Mancuso (1975) Managing technology products. p. 160.
“It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.”
Peter Mere Latham (1789–1875) English physician and educator
Book II, p. 398.
Collected Works
Najib Razak (1953) Malaysian politician
Speech given at Kemaman, Terengganu, on 14 January 2014, cf Palatino M, <i>The Diplomat</i>; "Malaysia's Kangkung Meme" http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/malaysias-kangkung-meme/.
“and I try
to draw the line
but it ends up running down the middle of me
most of the time.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Source: Ani DiFranco: Verses
“It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor