Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

I think in some ways you learn more from the things you don't like than the things you do.

My life is full of way more mistakes than successes.

You always learn from a defeat, even more than when you win games, because when you win, you don't see everything you did wrong.

I've learned from my mistakes in the past, why I thought I've lost fights before.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

Success is a poor teacher

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

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.

Failure is fantastic, because you meet yourself and get to know your limitations. This is how I express myself, and I can't do it any other way.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

I think with challenges, you either overcome them or you fall behind and become a statistic.

I wouldn't be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes.

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.

Reflecting back, we all make mistakes; we all go through our stuff - relationships, financial, all kinds of stuff - and if you can grow from that and pass that message on, it's a pretty cool thing.

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.