Sophia Amoruso Quotes

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Win or lose, I always learn something.

No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.

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

I think about all my successes and failures, and sometimes the failures stick in your head as much as the wins. But you do move on.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

I've failed way more than I've succeeded.

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.

I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

After you lose the Presidency, you don’t have much else to lose. My failures have helped make me a better Senator and Secretary of State…. I’m a more effective public person after some of the failures I’ve had through[out] my career.

What I'm proud of, we learned from our lessons.

It's about the learning, because obviously I learn more when I fail than when I win.

It's okay to fail if you learn from it.

More than the hits, flops will have an impact on my career. In fact, flops helped me shape my career. They made me look at things from a different angle.

When you lose is when you learn the most.

You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.

You always tend to learn whenever you fail. Even when you do good, you tend to learn a lot.

I have grown up seeing success and failure.