Write it as 'failure,' read it as 'growth.'

人間は、無視・称賛・非難の段階で試される

You must not misdirect your effort.

Cultivate both the literary and martial arts.

-- The man who invented the Sengoku period's model of conquest

He who knows only victory and does not know defeat will suffer for it.

-- The founder of Japan's Tokugawa shogunate

I would rather save one citizen than destroy a thousand enemies.

-- The Roman general who defeated Hannibal at Zama

I serve.

-- The greatest English military commander of the Hun

All great things arise from small beginnings.

-- The Turco-Mongol conqueror who built an empire fro

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

-- Ernest Hemingway