Quotes About Wisdom

I owe all my success to stupidity.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.

You learn from the mistakes you make and from the mistakes other people make. The truth is, you don't learn from success; you learn from failure.

Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious 1 and Obvious 2 in school.

I'm happy with the amount of success I've achieved. I feel like I'm getting better every day and I'm always learning. I don't take anything for granted and I've gained a deeper perspective on things.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

The more information you have, the better you're able to have success.

The problem with America today is that too many people know too much about not enough.

Instead of Criticizing Someone's Success, Why Not Learn Something Valuable from It?

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

Most men talk too much. Much of my success has been due to keeping my mouth shut.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life and then only in small doses.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

There are no secrets to running success,anyone who says there are is probably trying to sell you something.

Had I succeeded well, I had been reckoned amongst the wise; our minds are so disposed to judge from the event.

They say a wise man learns from others mistakes, I learn from others success, why pay attention to the mistakes?

Learning from the successes and failures of others is key to making quantum leaps toward our goals.