Kim Dae Jung Quotes

My experience has been in a short 77 years that in the end when you fight for a desperate cause and have good reasons to fight, you usually win.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.

It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Without failure there is no sweetness in success. There's no understanding of it.

Clouds and darkness surround us, yet Heaven is just, and the day of triumph will surely come, when justice and truth will be vindicated.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Antwone's story was a story of hope and that's what appealed to me. I needed hope myself at that time. I think all actors give up at some time and think they're never going to make it.

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

There is no success without hardship.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

Failure, failure, failure, partial success, renewed failure, ultimate and complete victory.

History was not written by men who predicted failure…

If you think about it, there are a lot of parallels between a sportsman's journey and the acting journey. You face so much adversity and disappointment, and you can work incredibly hard for a long time with very little results, and then, hopefully, something happens.

My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.

You either lose your way or you break through the hardships and play well. There is a massive difference.

There is no royal flower strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.

We have all lost before and we will win again.

I believe in hard work, but I believe in vindication as well. You have a few nightmares, I imagine, before you reach your dream.