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.
It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.
When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.
Indeed, we learn far more from our mistakes than our successes.
We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them. . . people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.
For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.
It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.
Learning and leadership go together. Too much credit goes to me for what we have achieved at Virgin but the successes happen from working and learning with some of the world's most inspiring and inspired people.
The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.
God's acceptance of us cannot be gained by our successes nor forfeited by our failures.
Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.
I learn more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes.
I have learnt more from my failures than my successes.
If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.
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.
I've had a life experience that's full of warts, full of successes.
If the title of a great man ought to be reserved for him who cannot be charged with an indiscretion or a vice, who spent his life in establishing the independence, the glory and durable prosperity of his country; who succeeded in all that he undertook, and whose successes were never won at the expense of justice, integrity, or by the sacrifice of a single principle--this title will not be denied to Washington.
Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes.