I’ve learned more from my failures than my successes.

One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

I learned that it’s not about how many shots you make, but when you make them.

If you aren’t fired up with enthusiasm, you’ll be fired with enthusiasm

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life’s lessons are learned in pain.

Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.

Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

You have to fail, man, but you cannot allow failure to stop you from doing what you must do. Failing is just as good as succeeding in a lot of ways. It’s how you react to it all. You can react to success the wrong way and be a total failure. Or you can react to losing with your whole heart, learn from it, and be a huge success. In stand-up, I’ve learned to know when I’m burning it up or when I’m being so-so. That’s experience. I learn every single time I’m on a stage.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim

I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.

He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death.

You forget how I talked when you first met me. I have learned a new language since then. Before that time I talked as that girl talks. Now I can manage to make myself understood sufficiently in your language to explain that you do not know that other girl’s language.

Thus he learned hurt; and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt, first, by not incurring the risk of it..

This week I’ve learned that when you really love someone, you come to accept everything about them, all the moments in their history that have made them into just what they are. And I can accept everything in your past, because it has made you you.

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly

No man doth safely rule, but he that hath learned gladly to obey

A man of peace does more good than a very learned man

If we live in peace ourselves, we in turn may bring peace to others. A peaceable man does more good than a learned one

We weren’t listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars

He had learned well the law of club and fang, and he never forewent an advantage or drew back from a foe he had started on the way to Death. He had lessoned from Spitz, and from the chief fighting dogs of the police and mail, and knew there was no middle course. He must master or be mastered; while to show mercy was a weakness. mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten, was the law; and this mandate, down out of the depths of Time, he obeyed.

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn’t even read Keats’s book when he gave him a copy.

I’ve learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table

I’m a private person by nature. I live in my brain half the time, not the world, and I’m not a natural negotiator. But I’ve learned to negotiate

I quickly learned that most academic feminists were profoundly hostile to evolutionary psychology.

I owe everything to Spain – that’s where I learned to write, to read, and to play football

Pep trusted me, and I felt that trust. He won a lot of things, and I learned a lot from him during his Barcelona period.

I’ve learned it’s important not to limit yourself. You can do whatever you really love to do, no matter what it is.

I’ve followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don’t have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don’t.

I learned to respect the coach and to do everything within my power to show that I should be the one playing. That’s exactly what I did during my three years under Mourinho.

I learned that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not.

I’ve learned over the years that people are human and have mood swings, regardless of how talented they are.

I’ve learned that you should only try to be better than who you were yesterday.

Brooklyn for twenty years, Ive learned that there is always someone better than you at what you do

I respect Test cricket a lot. Once I got into the Test team, I learnt so much about international cricket and realised it’s not so different.

I soon learned that humans can screech even louder than monkeys.

I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.

J.P. Morgan learned to fish in troubled waters.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man

Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.

The fact that I can travel around the world doing what I love is such a blessing. I’ve learned that traveling is such an important thing; there’s so many beautiful things out there and we get worried about such little things.

For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men at a distance.

I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience

It was playing on the varzea where I learned to be a warrior, to fight for every ball, and then to never give it away.

You know what I learned about Hawaiians? They’re just blown up Mexicans!

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

From doing A Moon for the Misbegotten, I’ve learned that nobody’s love can save anybody else. There are people who want to die, and nothing or nobody will stop them. The only one who can save you is yourself.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

I’ve learned that no matter what I wear, somebody will hate it.

Just relax. When I was younger, I made myself the victim of catastrophic thinking. Anything that went wrong was the end of the world. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned to stop myself and say, ‘Hey babe, calm down. Tomorrow there will be sun.’

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley’s Believe It or Not!

If I hadn’t been told I was garbage, I wouldn’t have learned how to show people I’m talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn’t have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn’t told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Not to bang on Harvard, but I learned more in three months with those guys at Microsoft than I did the entire time I was at Harvard.

Success is not just about winning. It’s about the lessons learned along the way.

I’ve always been praying for everything.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Equally valuable lessons are learned in defeat and victory.

The biggest thing I’ve learned is … I’ve learned myself. It’s something a lot of these guys never do.

I was not proud of what I had learned, but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.

I’ve learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.

I’ve learned That being kind is more important than being right.

The first song I learned was ‘Crazy’ by Patsy Cline and ‘At Last’ by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

I learned from my father to translate: everything I read I try to figure out what it really means, what it’s really saying.

I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is.

We’ve learned from experience that the truth will come out.

People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

Everything we know is only some kind of approximation, because we know that we do not know all the laws yet. Therefore, things must be learned only to be unlearned again or, more likely, to be corrected.

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

I feel endless need to LEARN, to IMPROVE, to EVOLVE, not only to please the coach and the fans, but also to feel SATISFIED with myself

I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.

The best lesson I learned was to just do it. It doesn’t matter what it is, or how hard it might seem, as the ancient Greek, Plato, said, ‘The beginning is the most important part of any work.

An easy life doesn’t teach us anything. In the end it’s the learning that matters: what we’ve learned and how we’ve grown.

With all the things I’ve been through, the No. 1 thing that I’ve learned is that we’re supposed to help people through this world.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

I’ve learned I’m not lying by not saying anything, so I just don’t say it anymore.

On the personal front, obviously, you know, this industry fragments a lot of families. If there’s one thing I’ve learned with my children, teaching them how to cook early on in life has brought them closer to my industry. So if they’re gonna follow it as a career, they know how to cook.

I had a work ethic forced into me from the very first time I worked in a professional kitchen. I learned that you can’t do this job with half your mind.

Growing up with an alcoholic father and watching your mother struggle to keep the family together gives you a big insight. I learned ruthless determination early on.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

The most important lesson I’ve learned in the kitchen is to have patience. Good food takes time, and it’s worth the wait.

Everything you’ve learned in school as “obvious” becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual. They fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work.

A well-managed plant, I soon learned, is a quiet place. A factory that is “dramatic,” a factory in which the “epic of industry” is unfolded before the visitor’s eyes, is poorly managed. A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

As a rule, theory does not precede practice. Its role is to structure and codify already proven practice. Its role is to convert the isolated and “atypical” from exception to “rule” and “system,” and therefore into something that can be learned and taught and, above all, into something that can be generally applied.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it – just as we have learned to live with storms.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly.

I learned a long time ago that if you subscribe and believe the good, you have to believe the bad. My measure is my heart and what I know.

We have learned nothing in twelve thousand years. (Upon exiting the Lascaux cave, France)

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

The more crap you believe, the better off you are.

We have learned how to navigate to the moon. That is like the ancient Chinese mainlanders learning how to get to Formosa; Formosa is the moon. After we settle it, we jump off from there to Mars, just like they went next to the Philippines. And from there across our vast galaxy. If the Austronesians can sail in there boats and scatter into settlements across Oceania, we can take our spacecraft and scatter and settle across the Milky Way. It may take even longer than it took the Austronesians, but if they did it, so can we, because they are us.

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.

The true leader is always led.

I’ve been hanging around a lot of people that’s wealthy, that is rich, that is famous. One thing I learned is that no matter how much money you have, no matter how big you are, how famous you are, they will still end up stealing your charger and your lighter.

Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words: this is good luck.

One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings one is called noble.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as ‘making a life’.

I’ve learned that even when I have pains, I don’t have to be one.

To change with change is the changeless state

It may be history, it may be only a legend, a tradition. It may have happened, it may not have happened: but it could have happened. It may be that the wise and the learned believed it in the old days; it maybe that only the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it.

All that I saw and learned was a new delight to me.

It’s not what you give, it’s the way you give it

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

It’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a warning sign that should prompt all of us to think through these issues very carefully.

I learned to observe the world around me, and to note what I saw.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

I learned more from Ronald Reagan than from anyone I encountered in all my years of public life.

We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento I will pump up Sacramento.

The secret is contained in a three-part formula I learned in the gym: self-confidence, a positive mental attitude, and honest hard work.

Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.

What I’ve learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can’t wing it. I can’t get all the materials I need for a house and just start building. Whether it’s a career, family, life – you have to plan it out.

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today

Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.

Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

I’m not a trained actor. I’m someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

I learned to write by writing.

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.

I’ve learned that regret is just a socially acceptable form of time travel.

Anyhow, I’ve learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you’ve had a jolly good row with them—only can you judge their true characters

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

I had learned from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

We see the world as ‘we’ are, not as ‘it’ is; because it is the “I” behind the ‘eye’ that does the seeing.

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves

Friendship is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they’re learned to do more with less, and so they don’t hire.

We also can’t try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That’s not leadership; that’s a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It’s the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq – and we should have learned it by now.

Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits

Acquaintance softens prejudice

The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life: don’t be afraid of change. It’s okay to feel like you’re losing something, but you’re about to gain something so much better.

The memory of a good deed lives

The more you want, the more you stand to lose

If you think about the very nature of life, I mean, on the very beginning, the development of the first cell divided into two cells. The sole purpose of life has been to pass on what was learned.

Don’t make much ado about nothing