If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature; it is our future that lays down the law of our today.

Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Those who learn fastest will achieve more than those who learn best.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have now seen.

True life is lived with tiny changes occur.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.