It's a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.
It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success.
We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.
I just see the opportunities and I go for them. I don't want to play my career safe. I've had my successes and I've had a few failures, too. But you just keep going and do the best that you can. That's what I've learned.
Failures are easier to repeat than 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.
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the recovery of a sick relative; or surrounded by an enemy with escape apparently impossible; or, it might be, dying of hunger … since some inscrutable power had swept all game from forest and prairie. Others joined in the ceremony in the hope and firm belief that the Mystery …would grant them successes against the enemy and consequent eminence at home.
You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
Indeed, we learn far more from our mistakes than our successes.
Great and unexpected successes are often the cause of foolish rushing into acts of extravagance.
No one could have been more surprised than I at my successes, and yet deep within me there was acknowledgment that had I not succeeded, I would have been equally surprised.
You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.
With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.
The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.
All her life she had made her own mistakes and her own successes, both usually by trying what others said she could not do.
I have really enjoyed my time at Ferrari, not just because of the successes.
I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes.
Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.