It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

Winston Churchill

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1430 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
410 You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
1366 The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
414 Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees all the others.
454 Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

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