We learn little from victory, but a great deal from defeat.

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.

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

Victory is sweetest when you've known 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.

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.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

I had long since taught myself to follow the inner voice. I delighted in submitting to it. To act against it would be difficult and painful to me.

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.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

In reading lives of great people, I found the first victory won was over themselves.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.