Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.
People are defeated by easy, victorious and cheap successes more than by adversity.
You have to learn not only from your failures. You must also learn from your successes.
My quality of life is more amazing than I ever could've imagined in those 20 years of struggling with illness. In those 20 years, I did not know the meaning of the word hope. It was just a bleak, difficult existence. With all the gifts, with all the successes that I had, it was still an incredibly bleak way of living and I want to be a messenger of hope.
I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.
Consumers desiring a better world have already achieved some successes in this regard, helping to transform several industries from the ground up.
At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes.
I've had a lot of failures as well and rejection. As actor, it's actually mostly rejection but people think it's mostly success because they only see your successes - the films that get made.
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.
You could argue that [the decline of public schools] is one of the major disasters in our lifetimes. We took one of the greatest successes in the history of the earth and turned it into one of the greatest disasters in the history of the earth.
Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.
The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.
If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.
Indeed, we learn far more from our mistakes than our successes.
We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.
The failures and successes are necessary for learning.
Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes
I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.