The best Quotes by Publilius Syrus

The best Quotes by Publilius Syrus

Publilius Syrus (fl. 85–43 BC), was a Latin writer, best known for his sententiae. He was a Syrian from Antioch who was brought as a slave to Roman Italy.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Experience Failures & Mistakes

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

Where there is unity there is always victory.

Success Community

Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.

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Simba: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

Rafiki in The Lion King

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Experience Past

Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

Rafiki in The Lion King

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Experience Past

I'm strong, because I've been weak.
I'm fearless, because I've been afraid.
I am wise, because I've been foolish.

15

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Kahlil Gibran

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Experience Scars

To regret one's own experience is to arrest one's own development.

Oscar Wilde

7

There's a benefit about losing: you get to learn from your mistakes.

Megamind in Megamind

6

Experience Failures & Mistakes Learning

A mind that is stretched by new experiences, can never go back to its old dimensions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

5

The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

5

Life Experience Learning School

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

Harold Macmillan

5

Experience Past

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

Oscar Wilde

5

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

Benedict Wells

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Failures & Mistakes Breakup Beginning

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

21

Failures & Mistakes Intelligence

It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

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Life Failures & Mistakes Beginning Scars

Once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

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Failures & Mistakes Self-Confidence

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

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Failures & Mistakes Ambition Basketball

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Annette Funicello

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Life Failures & Mistakes Perfection

You can never make the same mistake twice. Because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choise.

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Failures & Mistakes Decisions

Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

8

Failures & Mistakes

Examined from another angle, your faults and weaknesses can be weapons.

Nagisa Shiota in Assassination Classroom

7

Failures & Mistakes Weaknesses

It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.

Flemeth in Dragon Age

7

Failures & Mistakes Flying

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

The secret behind success isn't as much of a secret as people think. It's pretty simple. It's working as hard as you can to accomplish what you want.

Christian McCaffrey

No matter how successful you are, the haters will never go away.

Sam Altman in Startup Playbook

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

David Nicholls in One Day

Success is nothing without someone you love to share it with.

Billy Dee Williams

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Emily Dickinson

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Coco Chanel

The more you move up in the world, the more enemies you make.

Rue Bennett in Euphoria

Success Enemies & Opponents

You my say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one.
I hope some day you'll join us,
and the world will live as one.

John Lennon - Imagine

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Dreaming Community

We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not yet learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Martin Luther King

5

Teams Brothers Community

Together, the weak are powerful.

Friedrich Schiller in William Tell

4

Weaknesses Community

You can be strong by yourself, but together you'll be invincible.

2

Strength Community

On a football team, it’s not the strength of the individual players, but it is the strength of the unit and how they all function together.

Bill Belichick

1

American Football New England Patriots Community

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

1

Success Community

See how community is only a good thing when you're a part of it.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Ani DiFranco

Tolerance Community

No guns but only brotherhood can resolve the problems.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Weapons Community

I'm all about peace. I'm all about unity. I'm all about love.

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

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