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. Samuel Smiles
I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse. Michael Bergin
I'm very inspired by him-it was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up. Zinedine Zidane
Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world. Mary Garden
It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things. Paul Begala
My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way. Betty Cuthbert
You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
Scott Adams
To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve. Charlotte Rampling
More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding. Paul D. Boyer
I was like Gene Kelly, it was called singing in the rain. No seriously, I wasn't really born with a singing voice, but my friends Joe and John taught me how to sing. Chris Burke