Certainly, when I'd left Iraq back in 2008, I'd been proud of my service, but whether we'd been successful or not was still an open question.
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
I've been rich; I've been poor. I've been successful; I've been decimated. And the way I felt inside didn't change dramatically. It's less stressful to have money, that's for sure. But that doesn't mean I felt fulfilled. So I've learned to live in the smaller moments of life.
I think at least my philosophy of leadership is you focus more on the areas you have to improve or the mistakes than you do on your successes. And that's just how I am in real life. I don't want to let down my customers, my employees, my shareholders.
For anyone to say that The Rock made a bad decision in pursuing a film career, with the success that film career has garnered, is ill-advised.
When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome
I believe I've shown my worth, become a world champion, now I want to try and see how good I am. The only way I'll find that out is by testing myself against the best.
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
I learn from winning, because it's much easier to point out things when you lose. But I think the alternate competitors can point out a lot of things when you win.
Whether or not our system of Indian management has been a success during the past ten, fifty, or hundred years is almost answered in the asking.
Good marketers measure.
It's hard to criticize someone who's hugely successful.
I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.
Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.
Ultimately, we measure ourselves on the success of our investments.
Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.
Stringent standards of self-evaluation [can] make otherwise objective successes seem to be personal failures
There's something about that idea of looking up and hoping, and thinking, 'I'm good.' Some things, like show business, are absolutely subjective. People look at a TV show and think, 'I could do that.' And maybe they could do that. But they're not.
At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. (on being Manchester City manager)
The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
We cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for.
Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth doing.