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Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act III
- Experience
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
- Motivation & Goals
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter IIIIn context
- Wisdom
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
Earl Wilson1907–1987As quoted in 0 to Bitch in 10 Seconds Or Less: Quips and Comebacks for Quick-Witted Women (2005) by Amy Hatch, p. 268.
- Success
If a man has talent and can’t use it, he’s failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
Thomas Wolfe1900–1938