Japanese Proverb Quotes

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.

When you lose is when you learn the most.

You learn a lot from defeats. As well, you need to learn from victories.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

One learns more from defeat than from victory.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

A good balance of winning and losing is important. If you just win all the time, you won't get anything out of it; having some tough losses can be really important.

No one wants to quit when he's losing and no one wants to quit when he's winning.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

It's okay to lose. Losing teaches you something. Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement.

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.

Learn how to be a loser, because it's important to be a loser to be a winner.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

After you lose the Presidency, you don’t have much else to lose. My failures have helped make me a better Senator and Secretary of State…. I’m a more effective public person after some of the failures I’ve had through[out] my career.